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Bernie Madoff, the notorious Ponzi schemer, is serving a 150-year prison sentence. "I'm terminally ill," Madoff told The Washington Post.

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday issued its long-awaited report on how former President Barack Obama handled Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Users on fringe 4chan message board repeatedly posted the phone number for the Iowa Democratic party and encouraged people to "clog the line," resulting in some caucus managers to be on hold for hours, NBC News reports.

"So many people have been hurt, and we can't let that go on," Trump said at the bipartisan religious gathering.

Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders lead the pack in the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses with nearly all precincts reporting.

Bernie Sanders raised the most money of any month in his 2020 campaign, which will help to fuel a $5.5 million ad buy in advance of Super Tuesday.

One public health department has 31 health-care workers monitoring two quarantined patients 24 hours a day. "As this epidemic grows, that's not likely to scale," an epidemiologist told lawmakers.

Biden appealed to New Hampshire voters as he pushes to "come back" while trailing Buttigieg, Sanders and Warren in the Iowa caucuses.

Key lawmakers involved in President Donald Trump's impeachment, including Adam Schiff, Mitch McConnell and Elise Stefanik, got big boosts in fundraising in the final quarter of 2019.