After a few hymns, two Scripture readings and a rousing gospel song from the choir, Malcolm Kenyatta took the microphone at Reid Chapel AME Church here on a recent Sunday to address more worldly affairs: the state’s fast-approaching Democratic presidential primary. “If you’ve been paying attention, some people are saying that this election is over,…… MORE
Former acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire has formally resigned from US government service, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. The office of DNI officially announced the second-ranking official there, Andrew Hallman, stepped down Friday afternoon. President Donald Trump became irate in a meeting with Maguire last week for allowing lawmakers to…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s new personnel chief told agency officials at a meeting on Thursday to expect staffing changes and movements across the government, people familiar with the meeting told CNN. A White House official said John McEntee, the President’s former body man who was elevated to run the presidential personnel office, made it clear his…… MORE
Elizabeth Warren’s shock-and-awe attacks on Michael Bloomberg have won her the hearts — and dollars — of many liberal Democrats, infusing new oxygen into a campaign that looked to be on the verge of collapse after two disappointing finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire. But the Massachusetts senator has also been increasingly pointed in her…… MORE
Want to own a piece of recent American history? Here’s your chance. An auction house is currently selling a copy of the House Democrats’ report that recommended the impeachment of President Trump, which was signed by Trump himself the day he was impeached. So they claim. Goldin Auctions, a company located in Runnemede, New Jersey,…… MORE
Musician John Legend will campaign for Sen. Elizabeth Warren in South Carolina next week, appearing in at least two events for the Massachusetts Democrat in Orangeburg and Charleston on Wednesday. He is also expected to perform, according to a Warren aide. Legend tweeted last month that he would be voting for Warren in the California…… MORE
At Wednesday night’s debate, the six top 2020 Democratic candidates were asked whether the one of them with the most delegates at the end of the presidential primary process should be the nominee — even if that person didn’t have a majority of the delegates. Five said no. One — Bernie Sanders — said yes.…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney railed against the so-called “deep state” during an appearance at the Oxford Union in the UK earlier this week, according to two attendees and quotes of his remarks provided to CNN. Asked whether a “deep state” of government employees is actively undermining Trump’s agenda, Mulvaney replied…… MORE
Super Tuesday is still more than a week away, but almost 2 million ballots have already been cast — including in delegate-rich California and Texas. More than 1.3 million vote-by-mail ballots have been returned in California since February 3, according to county data provided by Sam Mahood, a spokesman for Secretary of State Alex Padilla.…… MORE
Finding a public poll of the Nevada caucuses has been like trying to find a needle in a haystack. There have been just eight polls released publicly over the last three months. Two of those were internal polls. Only five of those have been taken since the primary season began a few weeks ago, and…… MORE
