September 21, 2016
Federal prosecutors are pushing back against a demand by defense lawyers that New York and New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmad Rahami be arraigned immediately on federal charges he is facing. Late Tuesday, defense attorneys wrote to federal magistrate judge Gabriel Gorenstein asking that Rahami be promptly informed of the charges against him at a court […]
September 21, 2016
Over the course of his 75 years on and off the basketball court, Bobby Knight said Wednesday that he has never met anyone who can fix mistakes quite like Donald Trump. “There’s nobody that I’ve met in my lifetime that has a better grasp of how to correct mistakes and how to look at what’s […]
September 21, 2016
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poked fun at President Barack Obama’s golf obsession Wednesday as he extended an invitation to the president to visit him in Israel. “As you conclude your presidency, I know you’re gonna be busy with many, many things — much more than improving what I hear is a terrific golf game,” […]
September 21, 2016
The latest shootings by police of black men show that little has been done to reduce the violence at the hands of law enforcement, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson said on Wednesday, as he expressed frustration over the frequency of such incidents. “Police kill almost three people everyday,” McKesson told POLITICO, as unrest simmers […]
September 21, 2016
Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, blasted Donald Trump’s Wednesday statements about the state of the black community and America’s inner cities. “I don’t know what Mr. Trump is talking about to say that the situation for African-Americans is worse than it’s ever been,” the Georgia Democrat said when asked about Trump’s recent comments […]
September 21, 2016
The battleground race for Wisconsin has remained tight in recent weeks, with Hillary Clinton holding a razor-thin two-point lead over Donald Trump in the latest Marquette University poll of likely voters out Wednesday. Of the 677 voters surveyed who said they are likely to cast their ballots in November, 44 percent said they would support […]
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton never misses a chance to score political points or votes, as far as Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is concerned. Conway laced into Clinton on Wednesday, a day after the Democratic nominee remarked upon “implicit bias” in policing while commenting on the police-involved shooting of an African-American man in Oklahoma to Steve […]
September 21, 2016
In preparing for Donald Trump’s rumble with Hillary Clinton on Monday night, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday that her team is “well acquainted” with footage of its adversary’s past bouts on the debate stage, assessing the former secretary of state’s approach as “so lengthy” and “so lawyerly.” Clinton “got tripped up quite a bit” […]
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in the nation’s smallest battleground state, according to a new Monmouth University poll of likely voters in New Hampshire released on Wednesday. The poll, which was conducted last Saturday through Tuesday, shows Clinton with a 9-point advantage over Trump, 47 percent to 38 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson is at 10 […]
September 21, 2016
The deputy campaign manager for former Rep. Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential bid was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for covering up a $73,000 payoff to an Iowa State senator who agreed to back Paul and renounce an endorsement for Rep. Michele Bachmann. Dimitri Kesari received the three-month sentence from U.S. District Court Judge […]