October 5, 2016
Donald Trump on Wednesday denied Tim Kaine’s accusation that he loves Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling a rally in Nevada that “I don’t love, I don’t hate” him. During the Tuesday night vice presidential showdown, Kaine repeatedly attacked Trump and Mike Pence for the Republican nominee’s warm words for Putin, even after the Russian leader’s […]
October 5, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters) – About 35.6 million Americans watched the U.S. vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine on television, according to preliminary data on Wednesday, about half the number who tuned in to Donald Trump’s first matchup with Hillary Clinton last week.
October 5, 2016
Congressional Hispanic leaders are slamming Mike Pence for using the phrase “that Mexican thing” during Tuesday night’s debate, a retort they say is going to do heavy damage to the GOP on Election Day. “Our message for Donald Trump and Mr. Pence: ‘That Mexican thing’ is gonna come back to bite ya because our community […]
October 5, 2016
A top Senate Democrat is warning in harsh terms that Russia must face “consequences” for its actions in Syria and beyond, and that the U.S. “must revisit its overall approach” to the nuclear-armed government of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The blistering statement by Ben Cardin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and […]
October 5, 2016
Edward Snowden, the former system analyst who exposed classified government surveillance programs three years ago, took to Twitter on Wednesday to question the charges facing a National Security Agency contractor suspected of stealing agency secrets. After sharing a New York Times report that the FBI is investigating whether a government contractor stole secret “source code” […]
October 5, 2016
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Wednesday that he never spoke with his New Jersey counterpart, Chris Christie, about whitewashing the 2013 Bridgegate scandal — his administration’s second day of responding to an assertion made in a federal courtroom in Newark. Cuomo, a Democrat who has long observed an unofficial nonaggression pact with Christie, […]
October 5, 2016
Asian American groups and reporters are crying foul at Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters for a recent segment in which he visited Manhattan’s Chinatown. In the segment, which aired Monday night during “The O’Reilly Factor,” Watters went to Chinatown and asked people on the street questions about everything from who they are voting for, to […]
October 5, 2016
The U.S. government confirmed a potentially wide-ranging breach of classified information Wednesday, disclosing that a federal contractor was secretly arrested in August after the FBI allegedly found highly classified information at his Maryland home. Harold Martin III, 51, was charged with felony theft of government information and misdemeanor unauthorized retention of classified information. He appeared […]
October 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are running neck-and-neck in Ohio in a new poll that suggests Clinton’s post-debate bounce has brought her back in a state that had been leaning toward the Republican. A new Monmouth University poll released Wednesday shows Clinton with a 2-point lead in Ohio, 44 percent to 42 percent — well […]
October 5, 2016
Will the real Republican foreign policy please stand up? The morning after Mike Pence offered core foreign policy positions that diverged from those of his running mate, Donald Trump, Republicans puzzled over what to make of them and what, if anything, they might suggest about a potential Trump administration. Not much, was the early consensus […]