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By:  Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post A year after staging an election mired in controversy, Bolivia may be on the verge of doing it all over again. Following multiple postponements by the country’s caretaker regime, elections are slated for Oct. 18. Current polling shows a clear lead for Socialist presidential candidate Luis Arce over centrist former president Carlos Mesa and

By:  Meredith Deliso ABC News It’s mid-September, and Dr. Mark Levine is feeling really good. Vermont, where he serves as the state’s health commissioner, has had the lowest rate of new COVID-19 cases and test positivity in the country for several weeks now. As of Wednesday, there were only three patients hospitalized in the state for the virus, and Vermont’s last reported

Mr. President: Today, as a result of the horrific pandemic and economic meltdown, the American working-class is hurting like they have never hurt before.  Tens of millions of our fellow citizens have lost their jobs.  They have lost their incomes.  They have lost their health insurance. They have depleted their life savings.  They cannot afford to pay the rent.  They

By: Tony Romm; The Washington Post Top Senators urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to halt its plans to implement a mandatory payroll tax deferral for millions of federal employees, arguing that these workers should not be treated as political “pawns.” The issue stems from an order issued by President Trump in August, which allows participating employers to cease withholding their