Donald H. Harrison

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama mourned the defeat Thursday of his sweeping plan to offer deportation relief to millions of immigrants and tried to put the next steps in the hands of voters, casting the November election as a referendum on what’s widely considered to be a broken immigration system. Speaking to reporters after a […]

Updated | More than a day after they took over the chamber, House Democrats on Thursday ended their sit-in protest against congressional inaction on gun control legislation, having demanded their Republican colleagues allow a vote on two gun measures in the aftermath of the country’s worst-ever mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. House Democrats vowed to

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders acknowledged on Wednesday that he will likely not be the party”s presidential nominee, but did not suspend his campaign. “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee,” Sanders told C-SPAN in an interview, though he reiterated that he and his team are “negotiating almost every day” with members

It’s been 48 years since a third party presidential candidate managed to win votes in the electoral college. That was George Wallace’s 1968 presidential campaign in which the Alabama governor won 13.5 percent of the vote and picked up 46 electoral votes in the South. Ross Perot may have won 19 percent of the vote