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Sanders says that he will run for another term as country faces ‘difficult political moment’ amid schisms over Gaza. United States Senator Bernie Sanders, the 82-year-old leftist and two-time presidential candidate from Vermont, has announced that he will run for reelection amid rumours of possible retirement. Sanders, whose presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020 galvanised […]
MIAMI – Former Florida governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham has died. Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, was 87. His family announced the death Tuesday in a statement posted on X by his daughter Gwen Graham. The Florida Democratic Party issued the following statement on […]
Bob Graham, a consensus-building moderate Democrat who as a two-term Florida governor and a three-term U.S. senator became one of the most popular politicians in the state’s history and then one of the Senate’s most ardent opponents of the Iraq War, died April 16 at the age of 87.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. and two-term Florida Gov. Bob Graham, who gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 87. Graham’s family announced the death Tuesday in a statement […]
Bob Graham, perhaps the most peculiar and popular politician of modern Florida history, died Tuesday. The Democratic two-term governor (1979-87) and three . . .
SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump backed former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick Saturday in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race, after excoriating him just two years earlier. “I am officially giving my endorsement to David McCormick tonight,” Trump told the crowd. “He wants to run a good ship. He’s a smart . . .
By David Shepardson and Yuka Obayashi WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -The head of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday urged the White House to scrutinize the relationship between Nippon Steel and the Chinese steel industry, citing national security concerns amid bipartisan opposition in Congress to the Japanese company’s $14.9 billion deal to acquire U.S. Steel Corp. […]
A livestream of the service for Sen. Lieberman will be available above in this article beginning about 15 minutes before it starts. The funeral for former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman will be held on Friday morning in Stamford. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 29 at Congregation Agudath Sholom, at 301 Strawberry Hill […]
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in the 2000 presidential election, which was won by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court halted a Florida ballot recount, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 82. His family said in a statement that […]
Joe Lieberman, Al Gore’s running mate during the hotly contested 2000 presidential election, has died at age 82 after suffering complications from a fall. United States media announced his death on Tuesday afternoon, citing a family statement. One of the few high-profile independents in the US political sphere, Lieberman largely caucused with the Democratic Party […]