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Sanders married his wife, Jane O'Meara, in 1988 and helped raise her three children from her first marriage, Heather, Carina and Dave. Sanders was previously married to Deborah Shiling Messing from 1964-66 and together they moved to Vermont. He also had a son, Levi Sanders, in 1969 with his then-girlfriend Susan Campbell Mott. He has seven grandchildren, including Levi and his wife's three children who were adopted from China. (Bob Booth/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS)

As the Democratic Party moves left, can Sanders still stand out?

By Alex Roarty, McClatchy Washington Bureau • February 27, 2019

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ boundary-pushing policy agenda defined the septuagenarian senator as a fresh, revolutionary candidate to legions of young and progressive supporters, helping carry him...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) poses for a photograph after speaking to the Asian and Latino Coalition at the Iowa Statehouse on February 23, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/TNS)

Fired-up Iowans want a winner but disagree on who can beat Trump

By John McCormick, Sahil Kapur and Emma Kinery, Bloomberg News • February 27, 2019

The deep desire among Democrats to beat President Donald Trump in 2020 is filling the chairs in Iowa homes and meeting halls as candidates parade through the state. Even though the state’s first-in-the-nation...

Jorge Ramos speaks on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016 during the Miami Book Fair at the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami, Fla.

Second TV journalist, Telemundo’s Daniel Garrido, is abducted and detained in Venezuela

By Meg James, Los Angeles Times • February 26, 2019

A second television journalist working for a U.S. media outlet was abducted and detained for several hours Tuesday in Caracas, Venezuela. The correspondent, Daniel Garrido, was later released. Garrido...

Eulalia Dalila Pojoy Cuyuch, 33, of Guatemala (far right) and her family say goodbye to a friend as they wait along the border fence to turn themselves into U.S. Customs on June 14, asking for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico.

No military threat at southern border, top US general says

By Patrick Kelley, CQ-Roll Call • February 26, 2019

The U.S. military commander tasked with defending North America said Tuesday that there is no military threat at the southern border, where President Donald Trump has deployed troops to assist law enforcement...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) is joined by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and other House Democrats for a news conference on the Privileged Resolution to Terminate President Donald Trump's emergency declaration Feb. 25, 2019 in Washington, D.C. The House Thursday passed a resolution to abolish Trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

House passes resolution overturning Trump’s border emergency declaration

By Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times • February 26, 2019

The House's approval Tuesday of a resolution to override President Donald Trump's emergency declaration at the southern border sets up a difficult vote for Senate Republicans. Three Republican senators...

On June 12, 2018, in Singapore, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands after signing an agreement at the Capella Hotel.

Trump-Kim Summit rekindles dream of Korean rail link with Asia

By Kyunghee Park and Youkyung Lee, Bloomberg News • February 22, 2019

At South Korea's northernmost train station, the tracks stop abruptly ahead of the demilitarized zone that marks the North Korean border. A sign reads: "The steel horse wants to run." That may soon...

U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa during the annual American Conservative Union CPAC conference on March 3, 2016 at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.

Rep. Steve King says he has been cyberbullied

By Emily Kopp, CQ-Roll Call • February 22, 2019

Rep. Steve King was defiant in an interview with Iowa public television this week, insisting he won't apologize for the racist remarks and actions that cost him all of his committee assignments and endangered...

In response to the current student debt crisis, Sanders has pushed for free tuition at public four-year colleges and universities. He wants to cut all student loan interest rates in half and allow Americans to refinance their student loans at significantly lower interest rates. He wrote on his website: “In a highly competitive global economy, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country and our future, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades.”

Democrats embrace tax-the-rich label after years of ducking it

By Laura Davison, Bloomberg News • February 22, 2019

Some of the top Democratic presidential candidates are trying to make a name for themselves by calling for higher taxes on the wealthy. And for some wealthy donors, that's not a problem. Sens. Elizabeth...

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-allied Kurdish-led rebel group, patrol through the Islamic State-held village of Baghouz in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. SDF officials have said the extremists are clinging to an area less than a square kilometer in the village of Baghouz and preventing more than 1,000 civilians from leaving the area.

In Syria, US-backed militia trying to evacuate civilians trapped by Islamic State

By Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times • February 19, 2019

A U.S.-backed militia has sent trucks to the edge of Islamic State's dwindling territory in eastern Syria to evacuate hundreds of civilians as well as surrendering fighters, many of them foreign-born,...

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams speaks to her supporters during her election night watch party at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta on November 7, 2018. Abrams told a congressional subcommittee examining ways to boost voting rights that "incompetence and malfeasance" led to a systemic voter suppression effort in Georgia.

‘Incompetence and malfeasance’ led to voter suppression effort, Stacey Abrams says

By William Douglas, McClatchy Washington Bureau • February 19, 2019

Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams told a congressional subcommittee examining ways to boost voting rights that a toxic combination of "incompetence and malfeasance" led to...

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