Politics

Even as Buttigieg pushes diversity efforts as mayor, less than 3 percent of South Bend’s business in 2018 went to minority- and women-owned firms.

To defend Donald Trump, Republicans in the House are trying to discredit Sergii Leshchenko, who helped expose Paul Manafort’s corruption in Ukraine.

Chris Coons, a devotee of bipartisanship, is being challenged by Jess Scarane, who was inspired by progressive Kerri Harris’s 2018 Senate campaign.

Mike Miller has been a formidable barrier to progress for decades. He’s being replaced as state Senate president by Baltimore progressive Bill Ferguson.

While impeachment dominates the news cycle, Trump’s policies accelerating the border crisis are held up as “achievements” in Congress, with little Democratic pushback.

“I never actually endorsed the plan. They went ahead and used my name,” said one prominent South Carolinian who the campaign named as a top supporter.

The bill is the first legislation prompted by an ICIJ and Intercept investigation into ICE’s rampant misuse of solitary confinement.

Trump told a U.S. diplomat who called him from a restaurant in Kyiv that he wanted Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, according to a State Department witness.

After passing a $15 minimum wage, Democrats are pushing a bill that would suspend scheduled wage increases based on changes in unemployment or retail sales.

Rep. Peter King is not a “moderate” Republican.