October 2, 2016
Donald Trump’s top surrogates on Sunday tried to spin a report suggesting the GOP presidential nominee could have avoided paying federal taxes for almost two decades as evidence why he would be the best candidate to overhaul the tax system. “There’s no one who’s shown more genius in their way to maneuver around the tax […]
October 2, 2016
October 2, 2016
October 2, 2016
In 2004, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh students waited for hours to vote in the presidential election. The local Democratic Party, alarmed at the bottleneck, handed out pizza and water to encourage the students to stay. Pittsburgh Steelers Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris worked the line, armed with a giant bag of Dunkin Donuts, and Liz Berlin […]
October 2, 2016
Saudi Arabia’s long-standing reservoir of goodwill on Capitol Hill had already been dwindling for years when Congress voted to allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue the kingdom over its alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks. But Saudi Arabia still has lots of allies among retired members of Congress— the ones it pays, at […]
October 1, 2016
Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to accuse Hillary Clinton of cheating on her husband, former President Bill Clinton. “Hillary Clinton’s only loyalty is to her financial contributors and to herself. I don’t even think she’s loyal to Bill, if you want to know the truth,” the Republican nominee told the crowd at a rally in […]
October 1, 2016
An anonymous source sent the New York Times documents showing that Donald Trump reported a nearly $1 billion loss on his 1995 tax returns — which could have helped him avoid paying any federal income taxes for 18 years, the paper reported on Saturday. The Times, which hired tax experts to analyze the records, determined […]
October 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton desperately needed to come to Charlotte. She tried too soon, planning a trip last week on the advice of faith leaders, to stand with a community in crisis after another shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer – only to be rebuffed by city officials who said Charlotte needed time […]
October 1, 2016
Barbara Pierce Bush appeared alongside Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide Huma Abedin in a photo posted Saturday evening by a prominent fashion industry insider, branded with a #werewithher hashtag. Lauren Santo Domingo, contributing editor at Vogue, and actress Dakota Fanning, who has donated to Clinton in the past, were also pictured in a selfie taken with […]
October 1, 2016
A group of plaintiffs in a voting rights case that rocked North Carolina politics earlier this year filed a further court motion on Saturday to peel back remaining restrictions on early voting times and locations in five counties, a person with knowledge of the move told POLITICO. Filed in the battleground state’s Middle District, the […]