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Elizabeth Warren and CNN were both in the political spotlight in Tuesday night's latest Democratic debate, yet fireworks were at a minimum for the most part – and it showed. Now the frontrunner in most polls, the Massachusetts senator took jabs and swipes from the likes of Sen. Kamala Harris over Donald Trump's…

UltraViolet Action, the women’s activist organization, is calling on the Democratic National Committee to drop MSNBC as the next debate sponsor unless Comcast takes steps to “clean house” at NBC News in light of claims made in Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill. In a letter to the DNC, UltraViolet Action…

If there are two things that we learned tonight from the fourth Democratic debate of this primary season, it is that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the front-runner now and these double-digit candidates and multi-hour yak fests make the Academy Awards look like the Indianapolis 500. The former may be a true upturning of…

If you missed Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah offered a play-by-play of all the action. Host Trevor Noah and the Comedy Central team hammed it up at the candidates’ expense by live-tweeting the face-off, then dissecting the exchanges during a live broadcast as part of their…

Facebook and other tech giants were targets of the Democratic candidates at Tuesday night’s debate, but the presidential hopefuls did differ on how they would rein in the behemoths. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been the most aggressive in calling for breaking up some of the dominant firms, and most recently…

One of the livelier exchanges at the Democratic primary debate on Tuesday night was a bitter back-and-forth between South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke. O’Rourke has tied his candidacy recently to a mandatory AR-15 and AK-47 weapon buyback proposal to limit the number of firearms on…

The fourth Democratic Presidential debate started with an obvious topic – the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Asked by moderator Anderson Cooper why Congress shouldn’t just put impeachment off and let voters decide next year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said that “Sometimes there are issues that are bigger…

It’s been a month since the Democratic candidates for president faced off on the debate stage, and now we’re ready for the first 12-person free-for-all. Watch the livestream from suburban Columbus above. An even dozen White House hopefuls have qualified for the one-night face-off, marking the most participants in a…

The latest debate among the Democratic candidates for president is set for Tuesday at Otterbein University in the Columbus suburb of Westerville, OH. Hosted by CNN and The New York Times, the action begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT. CNN will air the faceoff live on its main channel along with CNN en Español and CNN…

There will be a lot of candidates sharing the stage at the next Democratic debate – for one night only. The Democratic National Committee confirmed that its next debate, scheduled for Oct. 15 and hosted by CNN, will not be split over two nights as has been done earlier in the campaign season. There had been some…

When CNN telecasts the next Democratic presidential debate in October, 10 or more candidates are likely to qualify and make it to the stage. But based the Democratic National Committee’s new qualifying criteria announced Monday, it’s the November debate that is very likely to feature a pared down set of…

UPDATED, 11:48 AM: The candidates will be back onstage next month in a debate hosted  by CNN and the New York Times, but now we know how Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and the rest did last night on ABC and Univision. Coming in strong in early metrics, the three-hour primetime Democratic…