Analysis: In picking Harris, Biden makes history and plays it safe

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August 11, 2020

Analysis: In picking Harris, Biden makes history and plays it safe

Politics and the moment may have conspired to bring the former vice president to the decision to select his former rival Kamala Harris as his running mate.
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August 11, 2020

Kamala Harris brings prosecutor’s legacy to Biden ticket, for better or worse

She has gone from being California's 'top cop' to leading congressional efforts to revamp the criminal justice system, and has been especially outspoken since George Floyd died in May while in police custody.
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August 11, 2020

Trump aide: White House didn’t micromanage negotiations between Bath shipyard management, striking union

Peter Navarro, assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing, said Trump instructed him to contact professionals to help BIW and Local S6 reach an agreement to end the ongoing strike, "but all the hard work was done by the negotiators."
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August 11, 2020

What’s keeping Washington from a virus deal, explained

No one is giving up on an accord, though near-term prospects aren’t promising.
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August 11, 2020

Latest public poll again shows Gideon leading Collins in U.S. Senate race

The Democratic challenger has a 5-point lead over the longtime Republican incumbent in a poll of 500 likely Maine voters released Tuesday by the Bangor Daily News.
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August 11, 2020

Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate

The senator from California will be the first Black woman and Asian American woman on a major party ticket.
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August 11, 2020

Voting in five states opens with no wait times, smooth ballot processing

The contests in Georgia, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Vermont were also expected to draw lower turnout.
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August 11, 2020

McConnell’s fight for a liability shield is a key hitch as talks stall

McConnell and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Monday exchanged blame but no new ideas on breaking the deadlock.
Published
August 10, 2020

Gov. Mills says Trump executive action on jobless aid vague, insufficient

The action would make states pay for one-quarter of the $400-per-week enhanced jobless benefit, but it is unclear how the program would be implemented.
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August 10, 2020

Trump, Mnuchin try to pressure Democrats back into negotiations on economic relief talks

Despite the rhetoric - and a claim by Trump on Sunday that the Democrats had called him - there has been no communication between the two sides since two weeks of fruitless talks collapsed on Friday.