President Trump gave a new justification for killing Qassem Soleimani, telling a gathering of Republican donors that the top Iranian general was “saying bad things about our country.”

Collins was sentenced on charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and lying to law enforcement officials after admitting he helped his son dodge stock market loses.

Supreme Court justices will hear arguments in April and should issue a decision by late June.

The February 10th rally will be held in Manchester, but the exact location has not been determined.

Christine Cedrone, a Quincy lawyer who was indicted in 2018 while working for the Baker administration’s Department of Conservation and Recreation, pleaded guilty to charges of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from an elderly legal client.

In the past month, Klobuchar has raised eyebrows as her poll numbers have risen. That momentum may stall if she has to stay in Washington, D.C., for a prolonged trial.

Warren’s moves on the debate stage pointed to a singular message: Think a woman can’t be tough enough or mean enough to stand up to President Trump on a debate stage? Think again.

Tuesday night’s debate in Iowa will be the smallest, the whitest, and possibly the most important event of the 2020 campaign.

For more than a year, Warren and her rivals for the nomination have been assessed by nervous Democratic voters for the hard-to-define and harder-to-quantify attribute of “electability.” Desperate to beat President Trump, Democrats have looked to the polls and pundits to tell them which candidate has the best shot against him, a process that has boosted former vice president Joe Biden and put Warren at a disadvantage.

The poll, conducted by the The Des Moines Register and CNN, showed that Sanders was the first choice for 20% of would-be caucusgoers.

If the election were held today, Bernie Sanders would win, according to interviews with more than 20 Granite State insiders, and analysis of polling data and candidates’ on-the-ground operations.

With strikingly different messages and styles, former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders — white men pushing 80 who have spent the past few decades in Washington — have overcome initial skepticism that either could triumph over fresher faces running for president.

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday released a plan to restore protections for bankrupt families she says were stripped away by a 2005 law.

The U.S. military may strike more Iranian leaders if the Islamic Republic retaliates for the Trump administration’s killing of Tehran’s most powerful general last week by attacking Americans or American interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday.

President Trump settled on a strong response after the death of an American contractor in Iraq. His decision to authorize a drone strike against Iranian General Qassem Soleimani has sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East and dramatically escalated tensions between the US and Iran.

Two Republican senators have criticized the GOP leadership ahead of President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, and other Republican lawmakers are seen as moderate.

With his decision to authorize a drone strike killing a top Iranian commander in Baghdad, President Trump thrust himself into the center of a volatile and unpredictable region — taking his presidency into just the kind of foreign entanglement he pledged to avoid.

In a CNN poll in October, 53 percent of registered Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents said they thought Biden was the candidate they thought could best handle foreign policy.

Warren was the only candidate among the highest-polling contenders to raise less in the closing months of 2019 than she did in the previous three-month period, when she raised $24.6 million.

Sanders said that his large donor base, including 300,000 first-time contributors in the fourth quarter, showed voter enthusiasm and his own electability.