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Campaign Panel Investigates California Lawmaker’s Spending

SACRAMENTO — California's campaign watchdog said Thursday that it's investigating allegations that a sitting state lawmaker used campaign funds to fly his family to a Boston Red Sox baseball game, among other purported examples of lavish spending. "I've bee...
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O’Rourke’s Fundraising Woes Revive Concerns About Campaign

WASHINGTON — Beto O'Rourke stormed into the presidential race arguing his experience growing up along the southern border and a relatively moderate approach to politics would distinguish him in a crowded field. But four months into his campaign, other — pre...
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Poll: Democratic Voters Not Fully Tuned in to 2020

WASHINGTON — Nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates have crisscrossed the country for six months selling their vision for the United States. But on the eve of the first debates in the campaign, a n...
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Facebook Busts Israel-Based Campaign to Disrupt Elections

JERUSALEM — Facebook said Thursday it banned an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in various countries and has canceled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of...
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Buttigieg Scrambles to Turn 2020 Buzz Into Momentum

MANCHESTER, N.H. — There are no policy positions on his website. He has virtually no paid presence in the states that matter most. And his campaign manager is a high school friend with no experience in presiden...
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What You Won’t See in the Mueller Report

WASHINGTON — The special counsel's Trump-Russia report will be out on Thursday for all to see. But not all of it. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, has said he is p...

‘Mayor Pete’ Joins 2020 Dem Race as Face of New Generation

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg, the little-known Indiana mayor who has risen to prominence in the early stages of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, made his official campaign entrance Sunday by claiming the mantle of a youthful generation ready to resh...