September 14, 2016
House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul said that he “misspoke” Wednesday when he told CNN that Russian hackers had penetrated the computer systems of the Republican National Committee. In a statement released shortly after his TV appearance ended, McCaul (R-Texas) said it was “Republican political operatives,” not the RNC, that had been hacked. The RNC […]
September 14, 2016
September 14, 2016
Mike Pence will soon release records from a physical examination he had this summer, spokesman Marc Lotter said Wednesday. The release comes on the same day that Donald Trump released a letter from his doctor to television host Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, released some health information. […]
September 14, 2016
The door is about to close on Gary Johnson. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates has set a “mid-September” deadline for Johnson and the other third-party candidates to meet three criteria to qualify for the first debate later this month: “evidence of constitutional eligibility,” “evidence of ballot access” and “indicators of electoral support.” Johnson clearly […]
September 14, 2016
FBI Director James Comey lamented on Wednesday the loss of public trust in government institutions like the one he runs and blamed “echo chambers” like Twitter for making his job more difficult. “My children, again, discipline me not to go on Twitter because apparently people say bad things about me on Twitter. But things like […]
September 14, 2016
President Barack Obama is publicly pressing Donald Trump to release his tax returns, but the president probably won’t use his own authority to make those returns public, a White House spokesman said. “I’ve not heard of this potential option. I think it is rather unlikely that the president would order something like that,” White House […]
September 14, 2016
Donald Trump holds a slight lead over Hillary Clinton in Ohio and Florida, according to new CNN polling that shows an increasingly tight race in the key battleground states. In Ohio, Trump has extended his lead to five percentage points, with 46 percent of likely voters backing his candidacy to Clinton’s 41 percent. Third-party candidates […]
September 14, 2016
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Wednesday released more information about her health that depicted her as a healthy 68-year-old woman with low cholesterol (without taking a statin) and seasonal allergies. She also takes a thyroid medication, and as the campaign has previously disclosed, she takes a blood thinner, Coumadin. A letter from her […]
September 14, 2016
FLINT, Mich. — Donald Trump’s last minute attempt to win over African-American voters veered off course Wednesday afternoon when the pastor of a historically black church cut him off mid-stump speech, reminding him that he had not been invited there to deliver a political speech. “Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she has […]
September 14, 2016
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is in “excellent health,” according to his physician, a disclosure that comes as the medical history of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump take center stage in the presidential campaign. The 58-year-old Kaine consumes alcohol in “moderate” quantities, doesn’t smoke and has received “frequent comprehensive medical evaluations over the last […]