Amy Klobuchar

2020 Campaign 05/11/20, 04:34

A Hollywood actor and director is happy for the Democratic Party to spend big to allow voting without having to attend local polling stations at the next general election. Rob Reiner has no qualms with the Democrats giving taxpayer money to ...

2020 Campaign 04/21/20, 04:01

A Democratic Party proposal to allow voting without having to attend local polling stations at the next general election could leave the country out of pocket by billions of dollars. Democrats want the Trump administration to approve $3.6 billion in federal ...

2020 Campaign 03/03/20, 05:27

A controversial Minnesota representative in Congress postponed her dream of becoming the next president on March 2. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has officially suspended her 2020 presidential campaign for the upcoming general election to be held on Nov. 3. “The Klobuchar campaign ...

2020 Campaign 02/13/20, 05:21

An overwhelming majority of voters believe the president will return to the Oval Office after the next election, a new survey has found. Monmouth University Polling Institute's latest poll confirmed 66 percent of American voters think President Donald Trump will either ...

2020 Campaign 01/14/20, 06:11

Several Democratic Party candidates for president were criticized for remaining silent on mass demonstrations that shifted blame away from the U.S. president and targeted the Iranian regime instead. Initially only former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) responded ...

2020 Campaign 12/03/19, 05:04

A Minnesota senator who is making a tilt for the Oval Office indicated she would not refrain from voting to convict the president on Dec. 1. Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) appears to have no qualms with ousting Donald Trump ...

2020 Campaign 06/18/19, 04:17

Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has released a list of 100-plus executive orders she said she'd sign in her first 100 days in office. The orders include rejoining the Paris climate agreement and allowing prescription drugs to be imported from Canada. The ...

2020 Campaign 06/16/19, 09:37

After receding from the national stage, the free college movement is resurfacing as a central rallying point for Democrats as they set their sights on the White House. At least 18 of the party's 23 presidential contenders have come out in ...

Politics 06/14/19, 12:50

The Latest on the Democrats' first 2020 presidential debates later this month (all times local): 12:45 p.m. NBC has announced how it will divvy up the 20 Democratic candidates for the first debate of the 2020 election campaign, which will be held ...

U.S. 06/12/19, 13:25

Two U.S. senators asked the FBI on Wednesday to explain what it has done to investigate the suspected hack by Russian intelligence of a Florida-based voting software company before the 2016 election.In a letter sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray, ...

2020 Campaign 06/09/19, 14:55

The Latest on the Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): 2:45 p.m. At an event meant to show off the Democratic presidential candidates' organizational strength in Iowa, campaign swag is king. Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, right, greets supporters before the Iowa Democratic ...

Politics 05/23/19, 11:35

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is becoming a lightning rod for Democrats on the 2020 campaign trail. Several candidates have taken jabs at DeVos at recent campaign events as they try to energize voters and curry favor with the nation's two major ...

Politics 05/19/19, 05:35

Former President Jimmy Carter carved an unlikely path to the White House in 1976 and endured humbling defeat after one term. Now, six administrations later, the longest-living chief executive in American history is re-emerging from political obscurity at age 94 ...

Politics 05/05/19, 11:52

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Glezman, joined the large crowd at former President Jimmy Carter's Sunday school class in rural South Georgia. At Carter's invitation Buttigieg stood and read from the Bible as part of the lesson ...

Politics 05/03/19, 14:09

Nevada's long crusade to block the creation of a national nuclear-waste dump at Yucca Mountain has pitted the state against a bipartisan group of lawmakers across the country, but a band of presidential hopefuls is joining the early voting state's ...

Health 05/03/19, 04:09

Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar (KLOH'-buh-shar) has released a plan to spend $100 billion over a decade to improve mental health care and fight substance abuse.It's an issue the Minnesota senator has faced firsthand as the daughter of an alcoholic ...

Politics 04/28/19, 09:02

Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year's midterms. Women won two of the state's most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time. Yet across Iowa, there's palpable ...

2020 Campaign 04/22/19, 22:47

The Latest on a series of town halls with five 2020 Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): 11:20 p.m. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is addressing questions about his lack of policy specifics, saying he thinks he's been "pretty clear" about ...

Politics 04/22/19, 22:24

The Latest on a series of town halls with five 2020 Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): 9:30 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he supports voting rights for felons, including the Boston Marathon bomber and people convicted of sexual assault. At ...

2020 Campaign 04/22/19, 21:06

The fight for the Democratic Party's soul played out Monday as some of the leading presidential contenders clashed in a series of prime-time town halls over free college, free health care and whether President Donald Trump should be impeached. Five 2020 ...