September 20, 2016
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said Tuesday that his committee plans to look at whether the FBI properly handled an earlier inquiry into the man now suspected of planting bombs that exploded over the weekend in New Jersey and New York City. The FBI acknowledged Tuesday that two years ago it carried out […]
September 20, 2016
Democrats are starting to show cracks in their support for legislation that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia — suggesting White House opposition to the bill may be resonating with lawmakers preparing for the first veto override of Barack Obama’s presidency. But to sustain his expected veto, Obama will need to […]
September 20, 2016
The Clinton campaign continued to escalate its spending in August, setting a new high of $49.6 million. Thanks to a banner fundraising month, the campaign still started September with more than $68 million in the bank, according to its latest financial report to the Federal Election Commission. About 31 percent of the contributions came in […]
September 20, 2016
Donald Trump on Tuesday evening declared that the nation’s African-American communities “are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before, ever, ever, ever.” As he has done regularly of late, Trump attacked the Democratic politicians who overwhelmingly control America’s urban centers as having failed the African-American populations who live there. Before a […]
September 20, 2016
After Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared in a pro-Donald Trump political video over the weekend, the network will prohibit him from appearing in promotional political materials through the end of the election, a spokesperson said Tuesday. “We were not aware of Sean Hannity participating in a promotional video and he will not be doing […]
September 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton got a major boost in August from some of her richest and most loyal supporters, with 11 seven-figure checks to fuel a spending surge from the main super PAC supporting her candidacy. Priorities USA Action raised $23.4 million in August, more than half of which came from its top five donors, according to […]
September 20, 2016
Donald Trump, in hot water over a report that his charity used donations to cover business-related legal fees, told a campaign rally crowd on Tuesday that “there’s nothing like doing things with other people’s money.” The comment about “other people’s money” came during a campaign rally in North Carolina, where Trump pledged to keep refugees […]
September 20, 2016
You can choose one or more of the explanations for what has happened to Hillary Clinton in recent weeks as Donald Trump has closed in on her in the polls. The “fundamentals” of this year—economic and political data—have pointed to a close race for more than a year; Trump has (until his recent birther nonsense) […]
September 20, 2016
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are holding what is expected to be their final meeting as heads of government on Wednesday—and there is every reason to expect that this one in New York, at the United Nations General Assembly, will be as fruitless as previous encounters. It is no secret that […]
September 20, 2016
Child migrants suffered a major setback in the federal courts on Tuesday, but Congress and the White House also found themselves lectured to from the bench for failing to do more to help the juveniles, thousands of whom have been thrown into deportation hearings without defense counsel. At one level, the ruling by a three-judge […]