September 21, 2016
A federal magistrate has turned down a request from defense lawyers that the man accused of the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey be immediately arraigned on a set of federal charges he is facing. Manhattan-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein agreed with federal prosecutors that suspect Ahmad Rahami need not have an […]
September 21, 2016
September 21, 2016
A billionaire who built up a corporate empire from his father’s inheritance now is running his first political campaign with a promise to shake up the establishment and restore prosperity after a long period of stagnation. But in this case it’s not Donald Trump. It’s Jim Justice, the Democratic candidate for governor in West Virginia […]
September 21, 2016
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday expressed confidence that the landmark nuclear deal between his country and a group of world powers will be able to weather the volatile U.S. election season. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd asked Rouhani whether he’d rather work with Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, citing comments they’ve made on the nuclear deal. […]
September 21, 2016
Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton among likely voters in a trio of swing states, according to a new Fox News poll released Wednesday evening. In a four-way race that also includes Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Trump leads Clinton 43 percent to 40 percent in Nevada, 45 percent […]
September 21, 2016
The campaign for Senate control increasingly looks like a flip-of-the-coin affair — a 50-50 split after the election is not far-fetched. That could be a nightmare in the making for whoever wins the White House. Any individual senator — from Elizabeth Warren on the left to Ted Cruz on the right — could almost single-handedly […]
September 21, 2016
Bill Clinton doesn’t want his life’s work to fade quietly into the night. In a personal speech defending his legacy at the Clinton Global Initiative — from its humble roots in his Harlem office to the international, star-studded conference it has become — the former president pleaded with the crowd Wednesday evening that the work […]
September 21, 2016
Two months after snubbing Donald Trump at the Republican convention, Ted Cruz is now praising the GOP presidential nominee for inserting himself in Congress’s eleventh-hour negotiations over a government funding bill. On Wednesday, Trump urged congressional negotiators to delay a U.S. hand-off of ICANN, a private-sector, non-profit organization which manages internet domain names. And that […]
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton doesn’t know what the answers are, but Donald Trump believes the question itself exemplifies why he should be president. As the nation once again finds itself reeling from a pair of fatal shootings of black men at the hands of police officers, the two candidates on Wednesday illustrated the divergent directions they would […]
September 21, 2016
The “designated survivor” has long been one of Washington’s favorite parlor games—imagining what America would be like if a catastrophe befell the capital during a State of the Union and the most powerful office in the land were delivered unwittingly to the cabinet official who had been hidden away as the president-of-last-resort. What would America […]