Month: October 2019

President Trump announced higher U.S. tariffs on goods from China. “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China,” he tweeted. It was unclear what Trump could do to force U.S. firms to make such a move. Updated at 5:18 p.m. ET President Trump on Friday announced higher…

Democratic Reps. Tim Ryan, Eric Swalwell, Tulsi Gabbard and Seth Moulton aren’t likely to be elected president in 2020. But faced with a stagnant leadership structure in the House and a political environment defined more by internet fame than legislative achievement, these Democratic lawmakers are weighing long-shot bids for the White House or have already…

A high school in a Chicago suburb is spending more than $53,000 to reprint its 2018-2019 yearbook after staff discovered photos inside in which students were flashing the white supremacist “OK” hand sign. Administrators at Oak Park and River Forest High School released a statement last week notifying parents that they were withholding the yearbooks…

Sen. Kamala Harris is adding several women of color to her presidential campaign team, an aide told POLITICO. Emmy Ruiz, a political strategist who served as Hillary Clinton’s state director in Nevada and Colorado in 2016, will be a senior adviser to Harris. Ruiz will counsel the campaign on electoral, political and field strategy. Ruiz…

HELENA, Mont. — Gov. Steve Bullock — perhaps the one potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate with a fan club of elected Republicans back home — presented his state as a model of governance in an era of D.C. dysfunction during his final State of the State address Thursday night. “Now, you and I both know that…

President Donald Trump on Friday tried again to rectify the mess he made by saying he would likely accept dirt on a political opponent from a foreign entity, going on “Fox & Friends” to clean up the comments. Trump insisted during a meandering 50-minute interview that “of course” he would alert the FBI in such…

Former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Trump’s “racist invective” and called for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and a new foreign policy direction in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his presidential campaign’s first glimpse of his immigration policy. Biden’s announcement, which appeared Monday in a Miami Herald op-ed, was…

Former Vice President Joe Biden needs to "up his game" after underperforming at last week’s Democratic presidential debate, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said, but other candidates shouldn’t underestimate him in the crowded presidential primary race. "The narrative is that maybe it’s not his time and that he’s not up to the task," Graham said in…

Julián Castro on Monday laid out a sweeping education plan, calling for everything from universal pre-K to free college and teacher raises. The Texan and former Cabinet member is pitching the proposal as "the first comprehensive education plan" laid out by anyone in the crowded 2020 Democratic field. "We have failed to adequately invest in…

T. Boone Pickens founded the company that became Mesa Petroleum and later began a hedge fund focused on energy investments. He died Wednesday at age 91. Updated at 4:13 p.m. ET T. Boone Pickens, the legendary energy executive who became America’s best-known oil tycoon, died Wednesday at age 91. The longtime Dallas resident, who suffered…