Emily Brooks

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Delicate dance: 2020 Democrats try to knock Biden for Ukraine ties without boosting Trump

Emily Brooks · October 1, 2019 7:30 pm

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) grimaces after straining his left groin, during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. The Lakers won 127-101.

GOP Senate candidate John James raises $3M in third quarter

Emily Brooks · October 1, 2019 5:58 pm

Cory Booker reports raising over $6M — more than triple his dropout ultimatum goal

Emily Brooks · October 1, 2019 3:58 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign event Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

Bernie Sanders up to $25.3M for quarter while Pete Buttigieg dips to $19.1M

Emily Brooks · October 1, 2019 11:32 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Four 2020 Democrats argue about who wanted to impeach Trump first

Emily Brooks · October 1, 2019 4:01 am

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks during a campaign stop at the Sioux City Public Museum in Sioux City, Iowa, Monday, April 15, 2019.

Cory Booker reaches his $1.7M goal and will not drop out

Emily Brooks · September 30, 2019 3:01 pm

From left, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro are introduced for the Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC on the campus of Texas Southern University Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, in Houston.

Five things to watch in third-quarter Democratic presidential fundraising

Emily Brooks · September 29, 2019 4:00 am

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry on Sept. 21, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Energy and Environment

Kamala Harris would ‘probably not’ let her VP’s child serve on foreign company board like Hunter Biden

Emily Brooks · September 29, 2019 2:54 am

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at an LGBTQ Presidential Forum in the Sinclair Auditorium on the Coe College campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.

Joe Biden says he gets ‘more credit for marriage equality than I deserve’

Emily Brooks · September 29, 2019 2:31 am

Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke speaks.

‘Miss Whiskers will be fine’: Beto O’Rourke jokes about threatening to kill a kitten

Emily Brooks · September 29, 2019 1:43 am

From left, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are introduced before the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit.

12 candidates expected on one stage for October debate

Emily Brooks · September 27, 2019 3:59 pm

Joe Biden.

Biden: ‘There’s nothing anybody in my family did wrong’

Emily Brooks · September 26, 2019 10:42 pm