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“A huge advantage the president’s got is, he’s the nominee, he’s the incumbent,” said Ann Herberger, a veteran Republican fund-raiser who worked for Jeb Bush over several campaigns, including his presidential run. The Democrats, Ms. Herberger said, “are in the same boat that we were in 2016 — until their convention, it’s a food fight, […]

WASHINGTON — Overcrowded, squalid conditions are more widespread at migrant centers along the southern border than initially revealed, the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog said Tuesday. Its report describes standing-room-only cells, children without showers and hot meals, and detainees clamoring desperately for release. The disturbing findings by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of

President Trump said he was “looking very seriously” at American cities that he asserted were overrun with mentally ill and “sick” homeless people who ruin life for others who live and work there. The president suggested that it was a situation that began just two years ago — even though cities have struggled with homelessness

After a strong performance in her first Democratic presidential debate, Senator Kamala Harris of California saw a significant increase in support in three polls released this week, as she and the rest of the Democratic primary field cut into the lead that former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has enjoyed since entering the 2020

Mr. Dell’Aquila said he had not spoken to Mr. Cox about the matter and had not seen him since a fund-raiser last year. The N.R.A. is moving on from Mr. Cox and is expected to announce Tuesday that Jason Ouimet, a deputy at its lobbying arm, will assume Mr. Cox’s former post, according to a

The court has already ruled, in effect, “We don’t care what the legislators thought in 1964, the text of the law is clear,” said Roy T. Englert, a Washington appellate lawyer who is the lead author of the brief. The issue of nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender individuals may stir up cultural and political

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called on Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, to resign from the board of Pfizer, saying his decision to join one of the country’s leading pharmaceutical companies “smacks of corruption.” Ms. Warren, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said in a public letter

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell gave Philip Hammond a “red book” as a gift in the Commons earlier – not that one, though – as the pair agreed on the perils of a no-deal Brexit. Mr McDonnell gave the chancellor’s predecessor, George Osborne, a copy of Chairman Mao’s “little red book”, but he handed Mr Hammond

WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $18 million in the past three months, his presidential campaign said on Tuesday. Mr. Sanders’s total was less than the $24.8 million that Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., collected in the quarter, an eye-popping sum that his campaign revealed on Monday. Mr. Sanders was the

Labour’s Lisa Nandy has said she would rather vote to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit altogether than leave the EU with no deal. The MP was asked how Parliament could stop a new PM taking the UK out of the EU without a deal. She told Politics Live presenter Jo Coburn: “There are people