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Former Vice President Kamala Harris made her highly anticipated return to the public stage Wednesday in San Francisco, delivering her first major speech since losing the 2024 presidential election to President Trump in the city where her political rise began. Harris gave the keynote address at the 20th anniversary gala for Emerge America, an organization…
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced the framework of a roughly $254 billion state budget agreement, ending a monthlong stalemate over public safety issues that the governor had insisted on including in the fiscal plan. The budget deal, which will now go to the Legislature for a full vote, includes changes to make it easier…
Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year. Mr. Hogg, 25, who…
The Democratic Party in Hong Kong was for decades the city’s largest opposition party. It led protests demanding universal suffrage. Its lawmakers sparred with officials in the legislature about China’s encroachment on the region. It was born in the 1990s of an audacious hope: that opposition politicians and activists could pressure Hong Kong’s iron-fisted rulers…
The Senate approved Republicans’ budget blueprint just after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday to clear the way for passing President Trump’s domestic agenda, after Democrats forced an overnight session to protest the G.O.P. push to deliver what the president has called “one big beautiful bill” of spending and tax cuts. The 51-to-48 vote, mostly along party…
“The Democrats have been acting like it’s OK what Trump is doing, and it’s not OK,” said Angel Leston, 38, who owns the Casa d’Paco restaurant in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, where Mr. Booker was mayor before being elected to the Senate. “Now,” he added, “there’s finally some fire.” Vivian Cox Fraser, president of…
Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, overcame $25 million in spending from Elon Musk to defeat her conservative opponent, The Associated Press reported, in a totemic contest that became a critical test of the nation’s prevailing political winds. Judge Crawford, who serves in Dane County, handily defeated…
Terminated federal workers have been organizing weekly protests inside the Capitol to share their stories and ask senators to defend them and the work they do on behalf of the American people. On Tuesday, more than a dozen federal employees and contractors — some recently fired and others put on administrative leave — called out…
Senator Cory Booker gave a marathon all-night speech on the Senate floor that stretched into early Tuesday, in an effort to put a spotlight on what he called the Trump administration’s “recklessness.” Mr. Booker, the New Jersey Democrat, began speaking on Monday evening and said he planned to continue for as long as he was…
