September 28, 2016
Just call them Hill’s angels. GOP Reps. Tim Murphy and Michael Burgess helped resuscitate a man in the Rayburn House office building this afternoon after he was found on the floor of an elevator unconscious and not breathing. Murphy, a psychologist by trade, was with his staff waiting on an elevator when the doors opened […]
September 28, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign is focused on “big changes and bold solutions” while Hillary Clinton’s is concentrated on “small and petty distractions,” the Republican presidential nominee said Wednesday. Trump framed his campaign as a serious White House bid, one that could be his only shot at the presidency, while dismissing Clinton’s run as the most “unserious” […]
September 28, 2016
DURHAM, N.H. – It was the threat of a common enemy — not any particularly deep love for one another — that united Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders last July at their first joint rally in Portsmouth after a long and bitter primary race. But during their second joint event of the general election, staged […]
September 28, 2016
A federal judge in New Jersey has set a tentative Sept. 2017 date for the bribery and corruption trial of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, more than two-and-a-half years after he was charged, according to a new court order. Menendez was indicted in April 2015 for allegedly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in […]
September 28, 2016
The House Freedom Caucus is considering asking Speaker Paul Ryan to delay leadership elections until after the lame duck session — signaling that the group’s support for the current crop of leaders could be contingent on how they handle year-end legislative business. Supporters of the idea believe postponing the vote — which typically occurs shortly […]
September 28, 2016
The Obamas and Joe Biden are warning voters that they must turn out on Election Day to stop Donald Trump – even if they don’t like Hillary Clinton all that much. While the three top surrogates are heaping praise on Clinton, they are also leveling with voters — especially young and minority voters — who […]
September 28, 2016
Hackers could influence the outcomes of November’s elections, a computer science professor who has demonstrated security weaknesses in voting machines told lawmakers on Wednesday. “It’s possible,” said Andrew Appel, a professor at Princeton University, at a House Oversight IT subcommittee hearing focused on election cybersecurity. But Appel, who has hacked voting machines used in many […]
September 28, 2016
Donald Trump is turning to his supporters for advice on debate prep just days after completing his first head-to-head matchup with Hillary Clinton — one he was widely perceived to have lost. The Manhattan billionaire’s campaign emailed out a 30-question “debate preparation survey” to supporters on Wednesday, asking them which issues they thought were Trump’s […]
September 28, 2016
A federal appeals court has ruled that New Hampshire’s ban on voters taking and publishing photos of their voted ballots is unconstitutional. The Boston-based 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that the law, revised in 2014, ran afoul of the First Amendment because lawmakers could not show that it […]
September 28, 2016
In one of the less noted exchanges at Monday night’s debate, Donald Trump appeared to rule out the idea that if he were president he would deploy “first use” of nuclear weapons in a crisis—and then to take back what he said. “I would certainly not do first strike,” he told Lester Holt, before going […]