September 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 3 percentage points nationwide, according to a post-debate Fox News poll of likely voters released Friday. In a four-way matchup, Clinton bests Trump, 43 percent to 40 percent. The poll represents a slight increase in support for the Democratic nominee, who led her Republican counterpart by just 1 percentage […]
September 30, 2016
Donald Trump on Friday called on President Barack Obama to vow not to pardon Hillary Clinton for “crimes against our country,” and also demanded the former secretary of state wouldn’t allow the five people granted immunity by the FBI during its investigation into her private email server to work in her administration. “Here’s my question […]
September 30, 2016
Bill Weld, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson’s running, suggested Friday that Hillary Clinton may be the best-qualified candidate for president. “I’m not sure anyone’s more qualified to be president of the United States than Hillary Clinton right now,” Weld told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd on Friday. Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts, had been asked […]
September 30, 2016
A group of 136 people calling themselves the “Scholars and Writers for America” released an announcement endorsing Donald Trump for president earlier this week. The group is largely composed of conservative writers and scholars. It also includes the names of some already prominent Trump supporters, including former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Silicon Valley billionaire […]
September 30, 2016
A federal judge ruled Friday that the State Department was under no obligation to look outside its own files for records of Hillary Clinton’s phone calls on the night of the deadly Benghazi attacks. U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer said State’s searches of its own documents and databases were sufficient to fulfill a Freedom […]
September 30, 2016
GENEVA — Donald Trump has officials in this world capital of trade running scared. Faced with the prospect of a U.S. president who pledges to rip up trade agreements, slap tariffs on allies and pull out of the World Trade Organization, top trade officials are in various states of denial and dread. Some attending a […]
September 30, 2016
Nevada Rep. Joe Heck and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio helped victims of a deadly car crash in West Virginia on Thursday night. The two Republicans were driving to their hotel after an event in Ohio when a semi-trailer truck on the opposite side of the road lost control and crossed the median, striking the three […]
September 30, 2016
Gary Johnson exercises, doesn’t drink, and “is an extremely physically fit and healthy 63-year-old male,” Johnson’s physician said in a letter released Friday. “Obviously, his decades of dedication to physical fitness, diet, no drinking, and no smoking have paid dividends as far as his current extraordinarily good health at this time of his life,” wrote […]
September 30, 2016
The White House on Friday corrected a transcript of President Barack Obama’s remarks that mistakenly identified Jerusalem as part of Israel. The president spoke Friday morning at a memorial service for former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday at the age of 93. The original transcript, which was blasted out before […]
September 30, 2016