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To make up for her height disadvantage, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who is 5'4," will use a raised podium for the first presidential debate against Donald Trump Monday night. According to WABC's Rita Cosby , one of the two podiums inside the debate hall at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York, is larger than the other.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, giving each candidate the chance to tout their readiness to lead the nation and their knowledge of foreign policy on the eve of their first presidential debate, a little more than six weeks before Election Day. Meanwhile, the candidates deployed their top supporters to the Sunday news shows to take early jabs at their opponents and to lower expectations for tonight's 90-minute debate at Hofstra University on Long Island, N.Y., which is expected to draw 75 million viewers.
Canadian diplomats are fanning out across the United States to talk up the benefits of trade with state and local leaders and counter what senior officials see as a worrying mood of protectionism swirling through the U.S. election campaign. Amid voter anger about the supposed harm done by international trade deals, both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton have talked about altering the three-nation North American Free Trade Agreement.
The campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton acknowledged the huge stakes of Monday's televised presidential debate, saying the event could shape the opinions of a large number of Americans who have yet to settle on their choice in what has been a bruising presidential election. After more than year of campaigning and attacking each other from afar, the two candidates will meet face to face for the first time, on a stage in Hempstead, N.Y. And as hard as it is to imagine, there remain enough undecided and loosely committed voters left that this nationally televised forum could produce one more pivot point in the campaign.
The lone suspect held in the killing of five people at a Washington state mall will be arraigned Monday and authorities are working steadily to nail down a motive, a state patrol spokesman said Sunday. Arcan Cetin, 20, is facing five counts of first-degree murder, according to Skagit County jail records.
Some 34% say matchups between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be very important in picking a candidate to support The first of the presidential debates comes as the campaign heads into the home stretch, with Hillary Clinton narrowly leading Donald Trump in polls. One-third of voters say the presidential debates will be very important in helping them decide whom to support for president, with slightly more Republicans than Democrats saying so, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.
Democrats wasted no time looking for political opportunity after Donald Trump falsely accused Hillary Clinton of starting the rumor that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. Just hours later, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York was on Philadelphia R&B station, WDAS, critiquing Trump's behavior. Days later Clinton's North Carolina state organizers met in Raleigh, in part to chart how to use negative reaction to Trump's statement to motivate the state's disproportionately high black voting bloc to turn out.
Investigators say a bomb that rocked New York a week ago, injuring more than two dozen people, was the latest in a long line of incidents in which the attackers were inspired by al-Awlaki, an American imam who became an al-Qaida propagandist. Federal terrorism charges against the bombing suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, say a bloodstained notebook - found on him after he engaged in a shootout with police in New Jersey and was arrested - included passages praising al-Awlaki.
As police and federal agents hunted for the man suspected of setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey, millions of people received an alert on their cellphones asking for help finding the bombing suspect. But a phrase in the short message, "See media for pic," has put a spotlight on the limitations of the nation's emergency alert system.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan has launched an investigation into Anthony Weiner's alleged texting sexual content with a minor. The allegations, which first appeared in the Daily Mail on Wednesday, include that Weiner sent explicit texts to an unnamed 15-year-old girl for months, dating back to January.
Although his pal Frank Sinatra got him to play the second Reagan inauguration, famed insult comedian Don Rickles never did politics. At 90 years of age, Rickles is still going strong, still needling audiences - and still won't take out after politicians.
Every Voice, a national advocacy group fighting for a democracy that works for all of us, has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Citing Hillary Clinton's comprehensive plan to give everyday people a bigger voice in our elections and Donald Trump's dangerous anti-democratic policies and rhetoric, national money-in-politics reform group Every Voice announced its first-ever presidential endorsement.
This undated Department of Licensing photo posted Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, by the Washington State Patrol on its Twitter page shows Arcan Cetin, 20, of Oak Harbor, Wash.
Monday's first presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump may draw, by some estimates, 100 million viewers, who will be able to take the measure of the candidates for the first time on the same stage together. The stakes for both contenders are enormous.
Monday night's verbal smackdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is a hot ticket on the campus of Hofstra University. About 7,500 students, or more than two-thirds of the student body, entered the lottery for only a few hundred tickets to witness the cycle's first presidential debate, being held Monday night in a campus basketball arena.
Investigators say a bomb that rocked New York a week ago, injuring more than two dozen people, was the latest in a long line of incidents in which the attackers were inspired by al-Awlaki, an American imam who became an al-Qaida propagandist. Federal terrorism charges against the bombing suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, say a bloodstained notebook - found on him after he engaged in a shootout with police in New Jersey and was arrested - included passages praising al-Awlaki.
IF Donald trump wins in Pennsylvania he will almost certainly become president. So pivotal is the swing state that one recent analysis concluded that the entire election could probably be held there.