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Up to this point, Mr. Biden has largely resisted responding to Mr. Trump’s individual broadsides, insisting repeatedly that he wants to avoid a “mud-wrestling match” with the president and often ignoring shouted questions from reporters about Mr. Trump’s remarks. But that hardly means Mr. Biden avoids discussing Mr. Trump. In fact, more than most of […]

The first debate of the Democratic presidential primary will be moderated by Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, José Díaz-Balart of Telemundo, and the MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, NBC News announced on Tuesday. The two-night event, set for June 26 and 27 in Miami, is the first nationally televised clash of the sprawling Democratic field

The Withdrawal Agreement “is not going to get through Parliament” and the UK will need more time to sort out a Brexit deal, Mark Harper has said. The leadership candidate said a no-deal was “credible”, and he had previously voted not to extend Article 50, but the current agreement could not be renegotiated and passed

Now, both parties believe that Arizona, which Mr. Trump won by about 90,000 votes, or 3.5 percentage points, is in play in the 2020 presidential race. Who wins will come down, in no small part, to places like Chandler, with its well-educated independent voters. [Sign up for our politics newsletter and join our conversation about

WASHINGTON — President Trump has concluded his tariff threat worked and forced Mexico to stop the flow of migrants. On Monday, he pivoted back to his trade fight with China and vowed to hit Beijing with more tariffs if it did not accede to America’s trade demands. “The China deal’s going to work out,” Mr.

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Mayor Bill de Blasio has at least one thing in common with President Trump, the man he would like to unseat: Their fellow New Yorkers love to hate them. In a Siena College Research Institute poll released on Monday,

• After years of showing little interest, Congress and regulators at the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department plan to scrutinize the power, influence and market dominance of tech giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. • Mr. Trump needs something to keep him interested in his re-election campaign. For now, that’s Joe Biden. •

Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. [Get On Politics delivered to your inbox.] I spent this past weekend in Iowa, attending a gathering put on by the state Democratic Party that basically amounted to a dorky political Coachella — less drugs, more clothes

But Mr. Pompeo did not say how Washington might react if Iran’s inventory of nuclear material increased to the point that Iran got within striking distance of building a bomb. Mr. Rouhani, meanwhile, is gradually raising the temperature, testing whether he can peel European governments away from the United States in the conflict over the

He has tried workshopping versions of those critiques as Twitter attacks, referring to Mr. Biden as “sleepy” and “swampman,” and blaming him for the 1994 crime bill that critics say increased mass incarceration. West Wing aides have been discussing another criminal justice reform event as a vehicle to underscore Mr. Biden’s support of the crime