September 29, 2016
Donald Trump on Thursday derided the FBI for giving Hillary Clinton’s staffers immunity during its yearlong investigation into her use of a private email server while she led the State Department. The Republican presidential nominee dubbed the five people who were granted immunity the “FBI Immunity Five” and suggested that the bureau was so lax […]
September 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced the endorsement of another batch of Republicans on Thursday. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta announced the 40 endorsements in a conference call with reporters, and highlighted Monday’s presidential debate, suggesting the former secretary of state’s performance bolstered her support among Republicans while labeling Donald Trump’s showing as representative of his lack […]
September 29, 2016
The New York attorney general is probing Donald Trump’s reported use of money from his charitable foundation to settle a private legal dispute, a lawyer for the town of Palm Beach, Florida, confirmed. The lawyer, John Randolph, said that the attorney general’s office contacted him to request documents related to a settlement Trump made with […]
September 29, 2016
PALO ALTO — The man charged with delivering voters to the polls for Hillary Clinton on November 8 says that Republican candidate Donald Trump, while brandishing his business acumen on the campaign trail, has a critical disadvantage in the race to the White House: his utter lack of a sales team. “Donald Trump has a […]
September 29, 2016
President Obama has been invited to speak at the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Thursday. Earnest said the president’s remarks were still being drafted, but pointed to Obama’s lengthy statement released in the wake of the death of a founding father of Israel. “I will always […]
September 29, 2016
The White House has heard senators say that they might need to fix legislation that became President Barack Obama’s first veto override. Obama’s aides are not amused. “It’s hard to take at face value the suggestion that they were unaware of the consequences of their vote, but even if they were, what’s true in elementary […]
September 29, 2016
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf felt the heat from House lawmakers Thursday, with multiple members of a key panel calling on him to resign and for criminal charges to be brought. A House Financial Services Committee hearing opened with scathing statements from Chairman Jeb Hensarling and ranking member Maxine Waters. They both told Stumpf this […]
September 29, 2016
Donald Trump and his allies are refusing to let up on their attacks on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, with Newt Gingrich shaming her for gaining weight during her reign and Corey Lewandowski suggesting she’s an attempted murderer. The sustained assault has provided a wide opening for Hillary Clinton’s campaign to drive home the narrative […]
September 29, 2016
Contrary to the idea that Donald Trump and other Republicans have pushed on the campaign trail, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the U.S. is more engaged with the world now that at any point in the nation’s history. “I hear this, and I hear people allege that the United States is retrenching […]
September 29, 2016
The Obama administration is illegally sending payments to health insurers instead of to the federal Treasury as Obamacare requires, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The congressional auditor’s report focuses on how the government handles fees paid by insurers for Obamacare’s reinsurance program, which collects money from all health plans to […]