September 28, 2016
FBI Director James Comey is passionately defending the integrity of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email set-up, arguing that critics are unfair to suggest that agents were biased or succumbed to political pressure. “You can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels,” Comey declared Thursday at a House Judiciary […]
September 28, 2016
September 28, 2016
House and Senate leaders on Wednesday morning were putting the finishing touches on a deal to avert a government shutdown, fund the government into mid-December and leave town to focus on Election Day. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) huddled twice Tuesday to iron out a dispute over what to do […]
September 28, 2016
Millennial voters may have flocked to Bernie Sanders’ primary campaign promise of political revolution, but he “bombed” his interview with theSkimm, according to a founder of the newsletter aimed at young women. TheSkimm, a morning email that breaks down the news in a conversational tone and now counts some 4 million subscribers, targets women in […]
September 28, 2016
The FBI concluded that a computer technician working on Clinton’s email was not engaged in an illicit cover-up when he asked on the Reddit website for a tool that could delete a “VIP” email address throughout a large file, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday. Republican lawmakers have suggested that the July 2014 Reddit post […]
September 28, 2016
The image of a bowl of Skittles and controversial accompanying message about Syrian refugees that Donald Trump Jr. posted to Twitter earlier this month has been removed “in response to a report from the copyright holder.” Trump Jr. posted the image early last week, showing a bowl of Skittles and the message, “If I had […]
September 28, 2016
Speaker Paul Ryan would not rule out a future presidential run on Wednesday morning, saying that “you never say never” and admitting he has “presidential-size policy ambition.” Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington, the Wisconsin Republican was asked by the moderator whether he’d ever consider running for president. Many have speculated that the former […]
September 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton won Monday’s showdown with Donald Trump at Hofstra University, according the results of a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. Nearly half of the likely voters surveyed declared Clinton the victor in Monday’s presidential debate, the first of three in the run-up to November. Forty-nine percent said the former secretary of state bested her […]
September 28, 2016
Donald Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie said “clearly Mr. Trump held his tongue” at Monday night’s presidential debate when Hillary Clinton raised the Manhattan billionaire’s history of derogatory remarks about women. Towards the end of the debate Monday night, Clinton managed to squeeze in a line of attack against Trump, labeling him as “a […]
September 28, 2016
Former President Bill Clinton will travel to Israel later this week for the funeral service of former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres, a spokesman confirmed Wednesday morning. Clinton’s press secretary confirmed that the former is planning to attend the service, scheduled for Friday in Jerusalem. According to the Associated Press, Israel’s foreign ministry […]