September 26, 2016
The bribery and corruption trial for New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez will be delayed while he seeks Supreme Court intervention in his case, a federal court has ordered. The Justice Dept. had asked that Menendez’s trial move ahead after the Third Circuit of Appeals rejected his bid to the have the allegations against him […]
September 26, 2016
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are counting down the hours to their first debate, a heavily hyped and critical encounter that comes as a fresh batch of polls show the race narrowing to a virtual dead heat. The showdown is expected to be a study in contrasts: Clinton, the longtime politician and […]
September 26, 2016
ORLANDO — Tim Kaine visited the Pulse night club here on Monday evening, the site where gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people in June. The Virginia senator laid flowers at a memorial surrounding the club. He attended alongside former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was injured in a mass shooting in 2011, as well as […]
September 26, 2016
The massive audience expected for the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is “a gift,” the former secretary of state’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri said Monday evening, because it affords the Democratic nominee a chance to “break through with her positive message.” Palmieri admitted that Trump’s controversial candidacy is likely playing the […]
September 26, 2016
Former Attorney General Ed Meese, a long-time aide to Ronald Reagan and a one-time critic of Donald Trump’s candidacy for president, has joined the Republican nominee’s transition team, according to two people briefed on the hire. Meese’s decision to join the transition team might raise eyebrows among Trump’s die-hard supporters. Meese joined a slew of […]
September 26, 2016
President Barack Obama violated the longstanding, albeit unofficial, rule against presidential headgear on Monday when he accepted a hat and blanket at the White House Tribal Nations Conference. The president was given the hat and blanket by Native American leaders as he took the stage ahead of remarks at the conference. He wore the blanket […]
September 26, 2016
Donald Trump is a racist, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, and the media has been negligent by refusing to label him as such. “Virtually every time Donald Trump says or does something discriminatory — and that’s often — the media relies upon a catalog of buzzwords to describe […]
September 26, 2016
Ado Machida, a top domestic policy aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and former lobbyist, has joined the transition team for Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with that team’s work. On the transition team, Machida is charged with working on major policies that run across several federal agencies, such as repealing Obamacare, or […]
September 26, 2016
The Senate will vote Wednesday on overriding President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill allowing families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, according to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). A House vote has not yet been scheduled. It would be the first veto override of Obama’s presidency.
September 26, 2016
Glenn Beck, a former Ted Cruz surrogate, suggested Monday that he’d have been better off backing Marco Rubio in the Republican presidential primary and laced into the Texas senator for throwing his support behind Donald Trump late last week. “For the very first time, I heard Ted Cruz calculate, and when that happened, the whole […]