PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 31 -- Brown University issued the following news release on March 30: * * * - In his new book "The Idealist," associate professor Samuel Zipp argues that Willkie's World War II-era "one world" idea could help guide how the U.S. evaluates its role on the world stage. * * * Many Americans may remember Wendell Willkie as the Republican presidential candidate who lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 election, handing FDR an unprecedented third term. Others ma  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following news release: Presidential candidates raised over $1.1 billion and spent $967.3 million in the first 12 months of the 2019-2020 election cycle, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission that cover activity from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019. Congressional candidates collected $989.2 million and disbursed $487.3 million, political parties received $781 million and spent   more