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POLITICO Donors are growing impatient as Biden delays naming coveted ambassador posts. After the perception of corruption around nominees grew during the Trump years, President Joe Biden is being pressed to appoint more career diplomats. | AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Link Copied Donald Trump named more of his political allies to serve as ambassadors than any president in modern history. Now the pressure is on Joe Biden to reverse that trend — and set a new standard. Biden still plans to dole ou...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) on Friday defended his refusal to resign by invoking the Democratic Party’s proud tradition of consequence-free sexual misadventure.

Font Size In the past 20 months, liberal media members have routinely blamed 2008s financial crisis on George W. Bush, Republicans, Wall Street, and greed. Someone that has hardly ever been accused of having a hand in what led to the tumult is former President Bill Clinton. As NewsBusters has been reporting almost since the crash began, it was Clinton who signed into law two key bills -- the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act o...

We need a voting rights workaround Albert Hunt, opinion contributor The fate of American politics, especially voting rights, rests with an unwieldy concept: workaround. Responding to Donald Trumps "Big Lie" that cheating cost him the November election, Republican state legislatures are moving to make voting harder. The rationale is to prevent voting fraud, a non-existent problem. The real motive is to make it harder for minorities and young people to vote: Theyre the constituenc...

Less than a month after former White House press aide T.J. Ducklo was ousted for threatening to "destroy" a female reporter, Ducklo's girlfriend has landed a plum new gig as editor of Teen Vogue.

Obamacare 2.0, a New Healthcare Shakeup, Is on Democrats Agenda Newsweek 3/3/2021 © From Left: Siri Stafford/Getty; Bryan Allen/Getty COV_FixHealthCare_Banner Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to fix Obamacare rather than make sweeping changes like enacting Medicare for All. In his first major legislative proposal, the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill currently making its way through Congress, hes already included a key component of his plan: expanding subsidies to make health insurance ...

Embattled governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) has retained the services of a high-powered criminal defense attorney who defended Harvey Weinstein and Woody Allen against allegations of sexual assault.

POLITICO Get the POLITICO Influence newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Updated With Steven Overly, Theodoric Meyer and Daniel Lippman FORMER MANCHIN CHIEF JOINING KOUNTOUPES: Patrick Hayes is departing the te...

Joseph Duffey, the quiet West Virginia native whose 1970 U.S. Senate run launched the careers of politicians from Bill Clinton to Larry Kudlow, died Thursday. He was 88.

He ran for the Senate in 1970 as a Connecticut Democrat and later led the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Information Agency.