Bancroft Way in Berkeley, California, is cold and slow, the kind of street where everyone seems to know each other by name. This week, neighbors sat outside drinking wine and drinking wine under the evening sun while having lively conversations about their childhood friend who had just become headline news. …
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More than 6 million Americans voted for someone other than Donald Trump as Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, but from the media coverage of the election you would never know. In 2020, however, neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump’s candidates hope to change that, and win more of …
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Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and enthusiastic Trump supporter, took a restless surprise on Wednesday when his Twitter account abruptly started publishing posts – two weeks after Cain died of coronavirus. De @THEHermanCain account has been dormant since Cain contracted coronavirus in June, after posting details about Cain’s …
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Bob Woodward’s second book on the Trump White House has a title, Rage, and promises to exchange the secrets of ’25 personal letters between [Donald] “Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have not been public before.” In the letters, according to details of Simon & Schuster published on the …
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Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American member of the US Congress, survived a stiff Democratic primary challenge from a well-funded opponent, who sought to make an issue of her national fame, the latest in a string of victories by a new generation of progressive legislators. Omar, who was seeking her second …
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