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Kamala Harris walks back her hand-up moment on health care

The California senator raised her hand when asked if she'd get rid of private health insurance, but said Friday she misunderstood the question. It wasn't the first time.

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Biden defends civil rights record after Kamala Harris confronts him at debate

"I never, never, never, ever opposed voluntary busing, as a program that Senator Harris participated in and that made a difference in her life," he said.

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In a world without Roe, how would Medicare for All guarantee abortion access in states that outlaw it?

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders seemed to make this claim during Thursday night's debate. Experts say he's wrong — but it's complicated.

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What viewers really thought: Election Confessions from the first Democratic debate

"I so wanted to like him," "I don't want to be pandered to!" and more from Night One and Night Two.

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DHS predicts up to 25 percent drop in migrant apprehensions at border

The number of migrants crossing into the U.S. typically drops as temperatures rise in summer, but McAleenan said the decline is more than just seasonal.

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Jimmy Carter says Trump only won the election because Russia 'interfered on his behalf'

While in Japan for the G20 summit, a reporter asked Trump if he would tell Russia not to meddle in U.S. elections, to which he responded, "Yes, of course I will."

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Trump immigration official blames migrant father for deaths captured in photo

"Until we fix the attractions in our asylum system, people like that father and that child are going to continue to come through a dangerous trip," the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said

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Team Biden hopes to move swiftly past fiery clash with Harris in first debate

"This is super heavy stuff that can't play out in a ten-person debate. Harris had a strategy that took advantage of that reality," one top campaign official said.

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Supreme Court to hear legal fight over aid to religious schools

Three women sued over a state scholarship program in Montana because they wanted to use the money to send their children to a Christian school.

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Supreme Court won't hear appeal to restore Alabama abortion law

In 2016, Alabama's legislature voted to ban a procedure known as dilation and evacuation but the law was blocked by the courts before it took effect.

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Supreme Court agrees to hear DACA case in win for Trump administration

The court will hear the case during its next term, which begins in October, and a decision likely wouldn't come till 2020.

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Democrats march leftward in first presidential debates

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

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Trump's split-screen trip: As Dems debate, for once it's not all about him

The president is finding that for the first time since he catapulted onto the American political scene, there's another show in town.

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Smiling Trump tells Putin: 'Don't meddle in the election, please'

Trump's casual comments to Putin at a meeting during the Group of 20 Summit are unlikely to satisfy his critics.

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Front-running Biden trips in first 2020 Democratic debate

Analysis: Over the span of two days, rivals Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren created opportunities for themselves.

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Who won the second Democratic debate?

Analysis: Kamala Harris stood out, Joe Biden had a target on his back, and a few of the candidates were barely there.

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Top candidate lines from the second night of Democratic debate

Some of the most memorable takes from each candidate on stage in Miami on Thursday.

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Integration's painful past becomes the present for Biden and Harris

Analysis: In the debate, Biden revived his long-ago support for local school control. But Harris countered that only the federal government integrated schools.

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'I couldn't get it done,' Buttigieg says of police tensions

"It's a mess, and we're hurting," Buttigieg says of the fallout in his Indiana city after the killing of a black man by a white officer.

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Trump pans Democratic debate take on undocumented insurance: 'That's the end of that race!'

The president weighed in on the debate in Japan, on his way to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.