Month: October 2019

Texas state Capitol building in Austin. This week, state officials confirmed that 22 municipalities have been infiltrated and ransom demanded. Updated at 10 a.m. Wednesday ET Texas is the latest state to be hit with a cyberattack, with state officials confirming this week that computer systems in 22 municipalities have been infiltrated by hackers demandingRead moreRead more

In this March 3, 2015, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York during a series of early morning raids. Updated at 3:03 p.m. ET A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to expand fast-track deportation regulations for undocumented immigrants withoutRead moreRead more

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is shaking up his presidential campaign after months of struggling to gain traction. Hickenlooper announced late Monday the hiring of a new campaign manager, M.E. Smith, who managed Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey’s reelection in 2018. Smith also served as deputy campaign manager for Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, now a fellowRead moreRead more

WINDSOR, Ontario — In May, an Illinois man emailed [email protected] with a plea: Graduate students at the University of Chicago were going on strike, and he wanted Bernie Sanders’ presidential team to help. “I’ve been super inspired by seeing the Bernie campaign support similar actions,” he said. A few days later, Sanders’ aides obliged, andRead moreRead more

Police pull out their guns after a confrontation with demonstrators during a protest in Hong Kong on Sunday. One officer fired a warning shot in the air — the first such incident in 11 weeks of protests. Besieged Hong Kong police officers drew their side arms on protesters, with one of them firing a warningRead moreRead more

Cory Booker’s Senate colleagues might have gotten the jump on him with their splashy — and earlier — presidential announcements. But early state officials say there’s little cause for worry. Over the last year, the New Jersey senator and his team have carefully planted the seeds for a White House run with an under-the-radar campaignRead moreRead more

When an interview surfaced this week that brought Sen. Cory Booker’s veganism to the forefront, it seemed like the New Jersey senator would be forced to do the first damage control of his nascent presidential campaign. Iowa is the No. 1 pork-producing state in the nation, after all, and the state Farm Bureau reports thatRead moreRead more

Joe Biden officially announced his bid for president Thursday, marking the third White House campaign of his lengthy political career but the first in which he enters as a frontrunner. The former vice president and longtime Delaware senator joins a historically diverse field of first-time presidential candidates who reflect the party’s yearning for fresh facesRead moreRead more

As Iowa caucus night neared in 2008, Joe Biden was outspent, outstaffed and up against tough competition: the historic candidacies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards. But Biden had consistently attracted solid crowds to his events in the run-up. An impressive number of state legislators had endorsedRead moreRead more

DENVER — Democrats are struggling to nail down A-list recruits in Senate races across the country. But here in Colorado, they have the opposite problem: A field of candidates so big that the primary is turning into a total free-for-all. In a spectacle that resembles Wal-Mart on Black Friday — or, for that matter, theRead moreRead more