The Senate parliamentarian dealt a potentially lethal blow Thursday to Democrats' drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress, Senate Democratic aides said.

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Joe Biden emerged victorious Monday in Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary, a turbulent election far more significant for the struggle over whether it should have been held at all last week amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Joe Biden said Sunday that the Democratic National Convention, already delayed until August because of the coronavirus, may need to take place online as the pandemic continues to reshape the race for the White House.

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First it was Joe Biden who endorsed a pair of Wisconsin school district referendum votes that are on Tuesday's ballot. Now Bernie Sanders is doing the same.

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As President Donald Trump rallied supporters Tuesday night by defending his decision to kill a top Iranian general, the Democrats vying to replace him used their final debate before primary voting begins to argue that doing so made the country less safe.

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The Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released a $16.3 trillion climate plan that builds on the Green New Deal and calls for the United States to be using renewable energy throughout its economy by 2050 and to declare climate change a national emergency.

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President Donald Trump is making a campaign visit to Wisconsin as Republicans grow increasingly nervous about their prospects of holding onto the governor's office, let alone picking up a Senate seat held by a well-positioned Democratic incumbent.

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Former President Barack Obama's campaign stop in Wisconsin on Friday will be at a Milwaukee high school.

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The former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders urged college students and other supporters onMonday at an early-voting rally on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus to throw Republican Gov. Scott Walker out of office and re-elect Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin.

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to western Wisconsin for a campaign rally with Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin.

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