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President Donald Trump had a busy day on Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) today with most of it focused on retweeting news coverage of the impeachment inquiry. Here are the highlights. The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our...

The United States and China have reached an initial but “substantial” trade agreement dealing with intellectual property, major agricultural purchases and financial services, President Donald Trump said Friday afternoon. The partial agreement could signal a major easing, or even an...

President Donald Trump on Friday denied he made an improper or illegal promise to a foreign leader, dismissing the claim as “fake news,” as allegations emerged that Trump and his allies pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden, a potential Trump opponent in next year...

U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to emerge victorious in the 2020 presidential election, according to a CNBC survey of 62 chief financial officers. The CNBC Global CFO Council consists of companies that combine for a valuation north of $5 trillion and more than two-thirds of those surveyed...

By Brendan Bures, via The Fresh Toast. Provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis for publication. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders re-affirmed his pro-marijuana legalization stance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, but that doesn’t mean he’ll decriminalize all drugs. Perhaps the most...

Who "won" and who "lost" this week's Democratic debate in Detroit? That's hard to say before any new large-scale polling comes out. Checking with the pundits can give a sense of what the pros thought, but there's little widespread agreement.  Even the...

The presence of former Vice President Joe Biden onstage Wednesday on the second night of debate among Democratic presidential candidates put the Obama administration’s policies in the spotlight in clashes over health care, immigration and criminal justice.  Biden, who has a comfortable...

By Brendan Bures. It’s not even 2020, but the 2020 Election is already turning personal and combative between presidential candidates for the Democratic nomination. This week saw Sen. Cory Booker aim directly at former Vice President Joe Biden, who released his extensive plan for criminal...

Policy matters with ramifications for the financial markets — including health care, taxes, tariffs and climate change — were front and center during the first of two days of debates between 2020 Democratic presidential candidates hosted by CNN in Detroit. Progressive senators and front...

Many of the 20 Democrats participating over two days in the CNN Democratic Presidential Debates in Detroit favor cannabis legalization. Where the candidates differ the most is in past policies that may contradict their positions today — and in how legalization would look under...

At the 110th NAACP National Convention in Detroit, where President Donald Trump was never far from mind, 10 of the candidates running to unseat him in 2020 showed up Wednesday to make their pitch to black voters. Nine Democratic candidates and one Republican sat down for question-and-answer...

America’s shifting perception of cannabis can be traced through presidential cycles.  When then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was running for president in 1992, he said in an interview: "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and didn't like...

As the presidential race continues to heat up, Democratic contender and former Vice President Joe Biden has come out in support of decriminalizing cannabis — but not of full legalization. “Nobody should be in jail for smoking marijuana,” he said. While it was a big step...

By Brendan Bures. Well it only took a month of criticisms for Joe Biden to change his tune on cannabis reform. The presidential nominee announced this week that he supports marijuana decriminalization, but he wouldn’t go so far as to support legalization at a federal level. The former vice...

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday he would seek the presidency in 2020. In a video announcing his campaign, Biden said he was spurred to action by President Donald Trump’s comments after the Charlottesville white supremacist march. “I knew the threat to our nation was...