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Lieberman, Connecticut senator for four terms, was Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in 2000The former US senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in the 2000 election and became the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket for the White House, alongside presidential candidate Al Gore, has died at the age of 82.Lieberman died in New York due to complications...

The success of this agile grassroots group underlines the discontent over the war – and represents a warning for DemocratsPeople in Michigan, and across the country, had been protesting for months over the Gaza war and the US government’s role in it, marching in the streets, showing up at the president’s public events, and pressuring their elected officials to support a ceasefire.But it didn’t...

Judge agrees to month-long postponement after Trump lawyers say they need more time to sift through newly released documentsA judge on Friday delayed Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial until at least mid-April after the former president’s lawyers said they needed more time to sift through a profusion of evidence they only recently obtained from a previous federal investigation into the matter.Judge Juan Manuel Merchan...

Jim Himes says comparisons between Trump’s attitude to Putin and 1930s PM’s stance on Hitler ‘give Trump way too much credit’Donald Trump is a worse appeaser in his attitude to Vladimir Putin and Russia than the 1930s British prime minister Neville Chamberlain was towards Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, a senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee said.Jim Himes of Connecticut, the ranking Democrat...

In today’s newsletter: What the results in Michigan may mean for the Democratic party’s prospects in the US election• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.Over the next two newsletters I’ll look at very two different elections that are thousands of miles apart but similarly fractured by the war in Gaza. Today we will be in a midwestern state in the...

This blog is now closed. You can read the full story and see the latest live results below:South Carolina primary results – live trackerFull story: Biden wins South Carolina primary as expectedIn a statement released by his campaign, Joe Biden cast his victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary as an important step in defeating Donald Trump in the November presidential election:In 2024, the...

This live blog is now closed. For the latest news on this verdict, you can read:Full report – Donald Trump ordered to pay E Jean Carroll $83.3m in defamation trialIn her closing arguments, Donald Trump’s lead attorney Alina Habba said the former president was the real victim, because of the backlash caused by E Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit.Carroll, she said, wasn’t “accepting any responsibility...