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Both gathered in Philadelphia, largely because its Municipal Auditorium had already been fitted with the wiring needed for then-groundbreaking live convention coverage on national television.

It’s best not to confront questions like this at all, since the lack of existing rules could mean that decisions would be ...

unless the convention’s Rules Committee explicitly decides otherwise: Delegates to the Republican National Convention have had, at every convention from 1856 through 2012, the full freedom to ...

By HANNAH SARISOHN Doug Emhoff, second gentleman of the US, speaks during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 20, 2024. (photo credit: Mike Segar ...

He wrote to several black leaders, who approved of the proposal, and on September 15, 1830, the ten-day National Negro Convention began in Philadelphia. Forty blacks from nine states attended the ...

Bernie Sanders’ last presidential campaign is launching an eleventh-hour bid for Democratic National Committee chair The FBI is releasing new information about a suspect who planted pipe bombs ...