September 21, 2016
Scratch one big economic worry off the list for Hillary Clinton. Federal Reserve policymakers on Wednesday kept their key interest rate steady, avoiding a potential stock market disruption and putting the central bank on the sidelines until after Election Day. Fed Chair Janet Yellen also strongly rejected claims lobbed at her by GOP presidential nominee […]
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump nationally by 6 percentage points among likely voters, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday. In a four-way race that includes Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, Clinton tops the field with 43 percent support. Trump follows with 37 percent, while Johnson trails […]
September 21, 2016
Former ‘West Wing’ cast members will stump for Hillary Clinton in Ohio this weekend. Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler), Allison Janney (C.J. Cregg), Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman), Dulé Hill (Charlie Young), Joshua Malina (Will Bailey), and Mary McCormack (Kate Harper). The cast reunion and campaign events will include appearances in Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo, Columbus and elsewhere. […]
September 21, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign Wednesday criticized the Obama administration’s plan to hand oversight of the internet’s domain name system to an international body, echoing Sen. Ted Cruz‘s argument that it could lead to more censorship by countries like Russia and China. “The U.S. should not turn control of the Internet over to the United Nations and […]
September 21, 2016
Donald Trump finally acknowledged President Barack Obama’s American birthplace last week, but one of his supporters, controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, sees a silver lining for the “birther” movement: Trump didn’t take a position on whether Obama’s birth certificate was forged. “If he says the president was born here, maybe he has information I don’t […]
September 21, 2016
Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the controversial “stop-and-frisk” policing practice to be instituted nationwide as a means of combating violent crime in America’s inner cities. In a pre-taped interview on Fox News scheduled to air Wednesday night, Trump was asked by an audience member what he would do to address “violence in the black […]
September 21, 2016
September 21, 2016
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton lamented the deaths of two African-American men this week by police officers, calling such killings “unbearable” and adding that they need “to become intolerable.” Clinton’s remarks on the shootings, one in Tulsa, Oklahoma and another in Charlotte, came at the top of a speech that was billed as focusing on economic issues. But […]
September 21, 2016
The Senate on Wednesday backed a $1.15 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, even as Congress is preparing to override an expected presidential veto of a different bill allowing 9/11 victims’ families to sue the Saudi government. The Senate voted 71-27 to table, or kill, the resolution from Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Chris Murphy […]