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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez easily won her primary, though many other races in New York were still up in the air. Kentucky Democrats were deciding who would face Mitch McConnell in the fall.Voters fill out their ballots at a polling location in Louisville, Ky.Credit...Erik Branch for The New York TimesJune 23, 2020WASHINGTON — Voters in Kentucky and…

The president tweeted out his endorsement of Bennett in early June, and he released a robocall saying she would help him “fight crazy Nancy Pelosi and that radical socialist liberal group trying to destroy our country.” House Freedom Action, a leadership PAC aligned with the former congressman, spent nearly $500,000 on the airwaves to boost…

With the help of his onetime boss, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden raised a record $11 million on Tuesday at a fundraiser co-hosted by former President Obama.The haul at the grassroots fundraiser -- $7.6 million from 175,000 grassroots supporters and the rest from top-dollar donors -- breaks the former vice president's previous record, set earlier…

A government lawyer said he resigned from the team prosecuting President Donald Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone because the Justice Department inappropriately pushed for a more lenient sentence."I have never seen political influence play a role in prosecutorial decision making, with one exception: United States v. Roger Stone," federal prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky said in testimony…

After almost two years in state prison for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby will get to argue part of his case before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in an appeal granted Tuesday. Having failed on almost a dozen occasions to have the matter reopened or re-litigated, this limited review does present the…