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LAS VEGAS — On Monday morning, Senator Bernie Sanders hosted a soccer tournament at Eldorado High School in East Las Vegas, a heavily Latino area. Elotes were served and music was playing, but most important were the vans to take players and their families to and from early voting sites. That evening, Senator Elizabeth Warren […]

LAS VEGAS — Phew. That was a debate. Here are six takeaways from the most gloves-off, knives-out Democratic debate so far in the 2020 presidential race. Things got ugly in Vegas, and fast. After eight debates that had sparks of conflict but were relatively cordial, Wednesday night brought two hours of nonstop political battle. Every

LAS VEGAS — The Democratic presidential candidates turned on one another in scorching and personal terms in a debate on Wednesday night, with two of the leading candidates, Senator Bernie Sanders and Michael R. Bloomberg, forced onto the defensive repeatedly throughout the evening. In his first appearance in a presidential debate, Mr. Bloomberg, the former

At one point, a moderator, Lester Holt, had to beckon Mr. Bloomberg to defend himself, observing that there was “a lot for you to respond to.” “Um,” Mr. Bloomberg began. He said he was the best candidate to defeat President Trump and the leader with the experience to succeed if he did. “I’m a mayor,”

LAS VEGAS — President Trump is not exactly a fan of life on the road. He agreed to a four-day Western trip this week on the condition that he spend every night at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. And that location had another attraction: It placed him at the current center of the

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts took the debate stage Wednesday night with one task: reassert herself in a race where attention has slipped away from her. And she did not wait to be called on. After Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont answered the opening question — about what it would take to beat President Trump,

Six of the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage on Wednesday night in Las Vegas for their last debate before Nevada’s caucuses on Saturday. Here is how the candidates’ remarks stacked up against the truth. WHAT THE FACTS ARE: Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted past comments by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg’s first debate. How will he fare? LAS VEGAS — Mr. Bloomberg hasn’t been a candidate for office in more than a decade. His last election and his last time on the debate stage were in 2009. That long absence leaves a lot of rough edges to smooth out ahead of Wednesday night, which will

WASHINGTON — President Trump was expected to name Richard Grenell, the American ambassador to Germany, to be the acting director of national intelligence, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Mr. Grenell, whose outspokenness throughout his career as a political operative and then as ambassador has prompted criticism, is a vocal Trump loyalist

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A military judge responded on Wednesday to a defense lawyer’s request to be released on health grounds from the case of the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, ruling that the 75-year-old lawyer would no longer