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MANCHESTER, N.H. — The infamous Iowa caucus delays may soon have a compatriot in Texas. Though the state is not using a new app to record results or planning to understaff help lines, the Texas Democratic Party said that the secretary of state informed them that some presidential primary results could be delayed on election […]

DES MOINES — Maybe it was the threat of bad weather. Maybe it was a seating assignment debacle. Maybe it was a struggling campaign organization that still hadn’t found its footing . But as Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke at a major Iowa Democratic Party dinner in November, one thing was clear: His support appeared

Residents in a Shropshire village say potholes are so common they amount to “tax” on rural drivers. Businessman Ian Field, who lives in Beckbury, says he has spent £6,000 on vehicle repairs in the last two years. He has written to the government with a dossier of photographs showing a dozen large potholes. He says

“That’s the greatest vulnerability,” she went on, “us not communicating to our family, friends, and neighbors what’s at stake in this election.” As the president delivered his address, his visage casting the theater in a soft orange glow, the crowd made sure to vocalize their sense of the stakes. Whenever a Democrat appeared onscreen, the

Labour MP Lilian Greenwood tells MPs her constituent Errol Graham starved to death months after the Department for Work and Pensions stopped his benefits. “His emaciated body was only discovered when bailiffs broke down his front door to evict him,” she says. Boris Johnson says she is right to raise “this tragic case” and insists

The Senate is poised on Wednesday to acquit President Trump of charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, casting a pair of historic votes to render a verdict in an impeachment trial that has further cleaved the two political parties and provided a bitter backdrop for the 2020 presidential campaign. The afternoon votes

A day and a half later, we’re still waiting for final results from the Iowa caucuses. But with 71 percent of precincts reporting as of late Tuesday night, Pete Buttigieg held a narrow lead — having earned the most “state delegate equivalents.” By that count he is edging out Bernie Sanders, who has the lead

A caucus on Monday at Johnston Middle School in Johnston, Iowa. The collapse of Democrats’ ability to report the results in a timely way left the party open to Republican taunts.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times DUBUQUE, Iowa — Troy Price, the head of the Iowa Democratic Party, said at a Tuesday afternoon news

How much of an impact does a fashion statement have the second (or third) time around? Last year at the State of the Union address, a majority of the women of the Democratic Congressional Caucus wore white — white suits, white dresses, white shirts, white jumpsuits — as a nod to the suffragists, to women’s’

The basics. What we’re expecting to see: The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on two articles of impeachment against President Trump. The first charges him with abusing the power of his office by pressuring Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential election on his behalf by withholding military aid and a White House meeting;