Throughout the tenth Democratic primary debate on Tuesday (Feb. 25), Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former mayor and current billionaire Michael Bloomberg were caught in the next back-and-forth they've had while in a national debate. This time, Warren intricate her account of losing her teaching job if she was 21 years old because she was pregnant — and what that experience had to do..

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It took far less than five minutes into the ninth Democratic presidential debate for Senator Elizabeth Warren to remind each person that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a lot of cash. Five minutes later, Mayor Pete Buttigieg asked if we were ready to let someone “buy” the election. Moments immediately after that, Senator Bernie Sanders called out Bloomberg for his place in the ..

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new plan for small firms, released exclusively to MTV News on Wednesday (February 19), pledges to increase funding for entrepreneurs, get rid of the red tape holding them back, tackle student cash advance debt, and fight the climate crisis — and give attention to aiding girls and people of color. Beginning your own firm is hard — even for people of color..

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If the Iowa caucuses were supposed to offer clarity for the path ahead to the 2020 general election, that isn't our current reality. By the time each person left high school gyms and other caucus locations across the state late on Monday (February 3), the vote still hadn’t been called. That void rapidly gave way to conspiracy theories, concern, and plenty of questions about who won,..

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The Senate impeachment trial was exactly what you were expecting — in case you were expecting milk, quills, and chartreuse boots. Here’s what you missed this week in Washington, D.C. To catch you up: On July 25, 2019, President Donald Trump hopped on a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for what was supposed to be a routine call between two world leaders. (Spoiler..

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Utah has finally banned the discredited and harmful practice referred to as conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday (January 22). The move makes Utah the 19th to formally adopt legislation to protect children from the practice, which has been denounced by most medical agencies and is defined by GLAAD as “any try to change a person’s sexual ..

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The impeachment is officially moving from the Home of Representatives to the Senate, and next week is set to be a big one. Yet first, let’s catch up on what happened in the here and now. To catch you up: Nearly six months prior, President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate 2016 election interference based on a conspiracy theory and to dig up ..

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Joshua Collins is using TikTok to propel his political campaign — and it's working. The 26-year-old from Tacoma, Washington, is several things: a truck driver with a penchant for lip syncing; a Socialist who supports Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders; plus a candidate for Washington’s 10th congressional district, which is centered on the state ca..

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It’s time: On Wednesday (January 15), the Residence of Representatives voted to send both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, NBC News reported. As well as that vote, Speaker of the Residence Nancy Pelosi announced which seven Democrats will serve as impeachment managers to prosecute the case; Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will presid..

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The seventh Democratic primary debates took place at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday night (January 14). And alternatively opposed to beginning the night talking about student loans or the climate crisis, moderators started grilling the six candidates on stage about war in the Middle East. Per the New York Times, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked candidates what made th..

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Is this a fever dream? Am I hallucinating? Or did presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's official campaign Twitter account send out a photo of a meatball with his face superimposed on it and, just a hour later, remark that CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer "can devour an elk carcass in one sitting"? While six leading candidates — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders; Massachus..

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A day before the sixth Democratic presidential debate, CNN announced that, in a private meeting in December 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) allegedly told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that a woman couldn’t win the presidency. Sanders denied this vehemently on Monday (January 14), and Warren responded by saying he did say what the CNN story reported. This rift between the two mos..

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