September 27, 2016
Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, the longest-serving head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division who has overseen a flurry of high-profile terrorism and cyber espionage cases, will step down next month, officials said. Mary McCord is set to replace him as acting assistant attorney general on Oct. 15. Carlin, 43, joined the National Security […]
September 27, 2016
The Obama administration’s latest attempt to pacify Syria through diplomacy is failing in spectacularly bloody fashion, raising serious doubts among officials, analysts and others about whether pursuing more talks is worth it. But there’s at least one prominent group urging the administration not to give up on negotiations. As Syrian and Russian forces laid waste […]
September 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton panned Donald Trump’s brag at Monday night’s presidential debate that not paying taxes “makes me smart,” asking the crowd at a North Carolina rally “if not paying taxes makes him smart, what does that make all the rest of us?” In her first stop on the campaign trail after what was widely considered […]
September 27, 2016
Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado on Tuesday called out Donald Trump, saying his harsh comments about her weight have been like “a really bad dream.” Machado, a Hillary Clinton supporter, was the featured speaker on a press call organization by the Democratic nominee’s campaign, as they try to drive home the message that Trump is […]
September 27, 2016
The first general election debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump averaged nearly 81 million viewers, according to data from Nielsen, making it the most watched presidential debate in modern history. Until last night, the most-watched debate in history was the 1980 debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. That debate also averaged just over […]
September 27, 2016
Bill Clinton on Tuesday defended his own economic legacy and accused Donald Trump of being woefully ignorant when it comes to trade deals and keeping jobs in the United States. At an event in Ohio, the former president conceded that not all trade deals have worked. But he went after Trump in a wonkish and […]
September 27, 2016
President Barack Obama hasn’t changed his assessment of Donald Trump after Monday night’s debate: The GOP nominee, he said on Tuesday, lacks the preparation and temperament for the presidency and can’t be trusted to address serious threats like nuclear weapons and climate change. The president unloaded on Trump during an interview with Ryan Seacrest in […]
September 27, 2016
Lawmakers are weighing a plan to strip Louisiana disaster aid money from a stalled stopgap spending bill, a move that could resolve Democratic objections to the legislation — and stave off a government shutdown at the end of the week. Democrats voted Tuesday to reject the stopgap spending measure — which would keep the government […]
September 27, 2016
FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday his investigators looked very intently at whether there was obstruction of justice in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email account, but concluded they could not prove a criminal case against anyone. “We looked at it very hard to see if there was criminal obstruction of justice,” Comey said at […]
September 27, 2016