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Then-Libertarian vice presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld arrives to cast his vote at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Canton, Mass., on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016. Weld confirmed on Feb. 5, 2019, he has changed his party registration from Libertarian back to Republican as he mulls a primary challenge to President Donald Trump.

Bill Weld, former Mass. governor, to challenge Trump for Republican presidential nomination

August 22, 2019 at 10:31 a.m.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld told an audience in New Hampshire Friday that he will try to take on President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primary, offering the...

Progressive challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, celebrates with supporters at a victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent and heavy favorite Rep. Joseph Crowley in their primary contest on June 26, 2018.

Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The 28-year-old socialist who challenged the Democratic Party’s establishment and won

August 22, 2019 at 4:23 a.m.

In the spring of 2017, before she ended the 20-year congressional career of Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y. and upset her city's most powerful political machine, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was working behind...

A statue of a steel worker stands near the entrance to U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Works, March 10, 2018, in Braddock, Pa. Trump visited the state on Saturday evening for a rally with Republican Congressional candidate Rick Saccone.

Trump’s tariffs forge rare common ground in Pennsylvania steel country before special election

August 22, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

In the hotly contested special election in this southwest corner of Pennsylvania, one issue has universal support: President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Even as Republican Rick...

Young supporters cheer as President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center Feb. 23, 2018, in National Harbor, Md.

Nationalism — and heckling — take spotlight at Trump-friendly CPAC

August 22, 2019 at 2:55 a.m.

The year's largest gathering of conservative activists transformed into something else over a long weekend outside of Washington: A celebration of nationalism, American sovereignty and new limits on immigration. Marion...

Claiming mandate, GOP Congress lays plans to propel sweeping conservative agenda

August 21, 2019 at 9:32 p.m.

For six years, since they took back the House of Representatives, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House. In their thwarted agenda, financial...

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson gestures he speaks with the media at a rally on Sept. 10, 2016, in New York.

Gary Johnson has ‘Aleppo moment’ when asked to name favorite foreign leader

August 21, 2019 at 8:19 p.m.

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee for president, had been raring for Wednesday night's "town hall" on MSNBC. He had been cut from the first televised debate after missing the polling...

Black Republican Sen. Tim Scott talks of disrespect from police

August 21, 2019 at 7:10 p.m.

South Carolina's Tim Scott, the sole black Republican in the Senate, delivered a bristling and personal speech on Wednesday in which he talked of being questioned by police simply because...

Hillary Clinton at a campaign event Monday night in Los Angeles.

Superdelegates emerge as Democrats’ polarizing force

August 21, 2019 at 6:40 p.m.

Rachel Binah was watching TV in her California home when the bad news came through: Hillary Clinton had effectively won the Democratic presidential nomination. Binah, a superdelegate who had pledged...

Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld, right, chats with Joe Hunter, communications director for the Gary Johnson campaign, at the National Libertarian Party Convention, Friday, May 27, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.

Johnson-Weld becomes a tough sell to Libertarians at convention

June 11, 2018 at 10:20 p.m.

Upstairs, Bill Weld was the presumptive vice-presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party, powering through interview after interview. Downstairs, Weld, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts, found himself arguing about whether...

Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak at the 2016 Health Datapalooza's annual national conference in Washington, Monday, May 9, 2016, featuring the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data by companies, startups, academics, government agencies and individuals.

Trump and Biden attend University of Pennsylvania commencement

August 21, 2019 at 6:18 p.m.

Donald Trump and Vice President Biden spent their Sunday evenings in an unusual mode: sitting quietly and listening to other people talk. Both came to the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin...

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