October 4, 2016
Ben Carson on Tuesday diagnosed what went wrong Monday when Donald Trump seemed to imply that military veterans battling post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t strong because they “can’t handle” what they saw in combat: He didn’t explain it correctly. “When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat — […]
October 4, 2016
Influential conservative Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes announced on Tuesday that, after more than two decades on the air, he is stepping down at the end of this year to “pursue new opportunities.” “It has been both a pleasure and honor to work here,” Sykes said Tuesday morning. “It has been an extraordinary privilege to […]
October 4, 2016
Mike Pence has an unlikely role model ahead of his vice presidential debate Tuesday night: Vice President Joe Biden. Back in 2012, Biden was called on to stop a slide after President Barack Obama’s widely panned first debate performance against Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Biden delivered, putting forth a forceful case for the ticket and, […]
October 4, 2016
Bill Clinton took a surprising jab at President Barack Obama’s signature health care law during a campaign stop in Flint, Mich., on Monday night, saying it didn’t do enough to control the cost of coverage for middle-class consumers who don’t qualify for federal subsidies. While praising the law for insuring millions of Americans eligible for […]
October 4, 2016
A new poll shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 10 points in Pennsylvania — a crucial, vote-rich state that increasingly looks like a linchpin to Clinton’s Electoral College strategy. Clinton leads Trump, 50 percent to 40 percent, in the new Monmouth University poll. Five percent of likely voters are backing Libertarian Gary Johnson, 2 […]
October 4, 2016
October 4, 2016
President Barack Obama will share his experience with substance use in an opioid crisis documentary with Macklemore that will premiere worldwide at the White House this afternoon and on MTV next week, the New York-based cable company announced Tuesday. The president and the Grammy Award-winning artist will both be featured in the premiere of “Prescription […]
October 4, 2016
NEWARK, N.J. — Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie personally discussed how to handle the fallout from the George Washington Bridge lane closures, even agreeing to release a report covering up the incident, according to the admitted mastermind of the political revenge scheme. Cuomo’s administration — referred to in testimony as “Albany” — told the top […]
October 4, 2016
A federal judge has rejected a conservative group’s lawsuit demanding the release of drafts of a criminal indictment of Hillary Clinton prosecutors prepared, but never issued, during the Whitewater investigation in the 1990s. U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton ruled Tuesday that Clinton’s “substantial privacy interest” outweighed any public interest in disclosure and that the […]
October 4, 2016