Veterans advocates, lawmakers fight for protection in NDAA against less-than-honorable discharges

Veterans service organizations are pressuring lawmakers working on the National Defense Authorization Bill to include an amendment protecting servicemembers with mental illness from less-than-honorable discharges. Veterans advocates and lawmakers said Tuesday at a news conference outside the Capitol that about 22,000 veterans with mental illness have received less-than-honorable discharges, called "bad paper," since 2009.

Hillary Clinton has a body double, conspiracy theorists say

Idiots on the internet have solved all of the mysteries lingering from Hillary Clinton's health scare: She has a body double, of course. As questions continue over Clinton belatedly revealing her pneumonia diagnosis, a sizable-enough segment of the Web apparently believes there were two Hillarys roaming New York City on Sunday.

Obama: 2016 Campaign Is ‘a Little More Crazy Than Usual’

6... - As he campaigned alone for the first time this election cycle, President Obama said the rhetoric in this presidential campaign has been a little crazier than in previous years. "In election season you will often hear crazy stuff," the president said Tuesday as he campaigned solo for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia.

Democrats call for probe of Trump check to Florida AG

House Democrats are calling for a federal criminal investigation into an improper $25,000 donation Donald Trump's charity made to a political group supporting Florida 's attorney general after her office said it was weighing legal action against Trump University . The Associated Press first reported in June that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi personally solicited the money during a 2013 phone call that came after her office received complaints from former students claiming they were scammed by Trump's namesake get-rich-quick real estate seminars.

In Pennsylvania, Trump to propose childcare deduction tax break

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday will propose allowing families to deduct the cost of childcare expenses from income taxes, his campaign said, a move aimed at bolstering his support among women voters. Trump is to lay out the plan in an evening speech in the Philadelphia suburb of Aston, Pennsylvania, his latest attempt to construct a policy framework that he would use for governing if elected over Democrat Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8. Trump is to be introduced at the event by his daughter, Ivanka, who has championed the issue of childcare as an influential voice in his campaign.

Hillary: I Didn’t Think My Illness Was a Big Deal

In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Hillary Clinton said she told others at Sunday's 9/11 memorial, including Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., that she was ill but didn't make a public statement because "I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal." After she became ill at the event, her campaign disclosed her recent pneumonia diagnosis and said she was being treated with antibiotics.

Paul Ryan super PAC benefits from Trump worries

Republican donors worried Donald Trump's campaign is putting the House of Representatives in play are writing checks to the super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, fueling a record-breaking haul this cycle. "There is uncertainty at the top of the ticket and we have a significant group of donors who want to make sure that the House is a firewall," Mike Shields, president of the Congressional Leadership Fund, told CNN.

2 Republicans Looking to Take Over 112th Assembly Seat

Two Republicans, including one who unsuccessfully ran for Congress two years ago, are looking to take over the Assembly seat Tedisco is giving up to run for Senate. Michael Howard takes a closer look at the 112th Assembly District primary.

Trump says Clinton’s “deplorables” remark is disqualifying

Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton for her characterization that half of his supporters belonged in "a basket of deplorables," denouncing the comment as "an explicit attack on the American voter" and suggesting that it makes her unfit for the presidency. No stranger to making his own sweeping negative characterizations of large groups of people, Trump nonetheless deployed the remark Monday as the foundation for a new campaign theme.

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House Republicans are keeping up their attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails by calling for testimony the tech expert who set up her private server and representatives from the company that maintained the system. Bryan Pagliano, a former information resource management adviser at the State Department , is scheduled to appear Tuesday at a hearing before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi

President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail Tuesday to rally support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, a state that has served as a firewall for her party in the past six general elections but is now viewed as competitive. Obama is scheduled to appear without the candidate herself.

Trumps Donated To Pols Pushing Hotel BidBy Gideon Resnick

The family made its first and only contributions to D.C. politicians to a pair of powerful Democrats who pushed hard for the deal. The Trump Organization opened its latest property in Washington D.C. on Monday, four years after they first secured the rights - after Donald Trump and his children all donated as much as they could to D.C.'s mayor and representative in Congress, who were instrumental in the hotel's development.

Hillary Clinton’s smug ‘deplorables’ comment shows…

If you are one of the many military veterans, police officers, or legal gun owners who support Donald Trump for president, Hillary Clinton may call you something else: "deplorable." In one of the most stupid political comments in a political season in which ignorant comments seem to know no bounds, the Democratic nominee shot her own campaign in the foot when she shot off her mouth before introducing Barbra Streisand at an LGBT fundraiser in New York: "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Mrs. Clinton said.

Obama, McConnell strike hopeful tone on budget, Zika – Mon, 12 Sep 2016 PST

Striking a conciliatory tone after an Oval Office sitdown, President Barack Obama and the top Senate Republican declared themselves hopeful Monday that an agreement can be reached to keep the government running and to provide money to take care of the worsening Zika crisis. WASHINGTON - Striking a conciliatory tone after an Oval Office sitdown, President Barack Obama and the top Senate Republican declared themselves hopeful Monday that an agreement can be reached to keep the government running and to provide money to take care of the worsening Zika crisis.