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Melania Trump's star turn at the Republican National Convention Monday night captivated a GOP crowd that had rarely heard from her through months of her husband's tumultuous 2016 White House campaign. Her speech also drew attention after the discovery that two passages of her remarks matched nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention.
It's a far different experience watching an hour of coverage on the ABC, CBS or NBC broadcast networks or the almost unlimited amount of time on the cable networks or PBS. Melania Trump's speech about her husband was the centerpiece of the 10 p.m. hour when the broadcasters were on the air, and it consumed much of their attention.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up Monday as he walks off the stage with his wife, Melania, during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. [AP Photo] CLEVELAND - Donald Trump made his first appearance at the Republican National Convention on Monday, introducing his wife and saying, "We're going to win.
Our nation faces a very real and very serious problem these days with the widespread prevalence of drug overdoses. But we have an even more serious threat to the very existence of our once great nation, the insidious epidemic of Kool-aid overdosing.
Giuliani resigned as a New York delegate pledged to Ohio Gov. John Kasich to the Republican National Convention before a prime time speech, according to a New York Republican Party official. Fiery Giuliani touts Trump Giuliani resigned as a New York delegate pledged to Ohio Gov. John Kasich to the Republican National Convention before a prime time speech, according to a New York Republican Party official.
A delegate shouts as a call for a roll call vote on the rules goes out during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday. A former top intelligence official says Donald Trump “recognizes the threats we face and is not afraid to call them what they are.” Michael Flynn once led the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama and was thought to be on the short list of potential running mates for Trump.
Illinois delegate Christian Gramm, left, and other delegates react as some call for a roll call vote on the adoption of the rules during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. less Illinois delegate Christian Gramm, left, and other delegates react as some call for a roll call vote on the adoption of the rules during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, ... more Donald Trump promised a "monumentally magnificent" display of at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, which kicked off Monday.
The New York State Republican delegation had already been served breakfast, but they still had room for several servings of political red meat from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich . President Barack Obama and his Democratic would-be successor Hillary Clinton were "breaking their country down" at home and abroad, the Republican firebrand told a packed banquet hall at the Renaissance Hotel just a few blocks away from where the Republican National Convention convened for its first session Monday afternoon.
While Donald Trump supporters and protesters held demonstrations in downtown Cleveland on Monday, there were few arrests and not much conflict between the groups on the first day of the Republican National Convention.a Demonstrators protesting against Donald Trump march through the streets of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, during the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016. Sondos Mishal, 17, of Akron, Ohio, attended an anti-Trump demonstration at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, 2016, to show people that Muslims are not the "monsters" Trump portrays them as.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today launched an unprecedented effort to generate new industrial investment in Chicagoland neighborhoods. The Industrial Growth Zones program will accelerate neighborhood development in seven designated areas over the next three years by removing longstanding hurdles to development and providing a broad set of services to support property owners and industrial businesses.
Police in St. Paul on Monday reopened the avenue in front of the Minnesota governor's mansion that had been shut down by protesters since shortly after a suburban officer shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop nearly two weeks ago. Officers informed protesters at 6 a.m. that they would no longer be allowed to occupy Summit Avenue "because they had created an ongoing public nuisance," police spokesman Steve Linders said.
Donald Trump's campaign chair says he has "close to 20" states on his list of competitive general election battlegrounds. Paul Manafort says that includes such states as Connecticut and Oregon, which he says are coming into play.
Well, it seems like the public option, a long coveted provision by liberal Democrats on health care is making a comeback. President Obama announced that he would like to see a government-run option to compete with private insurance, which represents another step towards socialized medicine : "Public programs like Medicare often deliver care more cost-effectively by curtailing administrative overhead and securing better prices from providers," Obama writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Republican National Convention is set to kick off as the nation reels from another deadly shooting and dissident delegates stage a longshot, last-gasp effort to deny Donald Trump the GOP nomination for president. Amid the tumult, it was undeniably Trump's moment - a week at the pinnacle of American politics that few could have imagined when the New York billionaire entered the race a year ago.
Once upon a time, American political conventions were moments of great expectations. As Republican and Democratic delegates decamped to traditional convention cities, the actual nominees for the fall election were often still an open question.
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman and his re-election team have been beating the bushes and sifting through reams of data for more than a year. Republicans say Trump needs to take a page from Portman's playbook, and they worry that Trump's flyby approach to one of the most important states on the electoral map won't give him the edge he needs over Democrat Hillary Clinton, who already has a strong Ohio operation.
Lamar Smith, a 29-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, has long been hostile to climate science. The Texas Republican, who serves as chairman of the House Science Committee, gained notoriety for his harassment of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .
Just the suggestion that Hillary Clinton may select Sen. Timothy M. Kaine as a running mate has Virginia political circles abuzz about who might replace the swing-state senator if he joins the Democratic presidential ticket. In the event of a Clinton-Kaine victory, state law requires Gov. Terry McAuliffe to appoint someone to fill Kaine's Senate seat for about a year.
The quadrennial celebration of the Grand Old Party in Cleveland this week will be missing some key members from Illinois. Top Republicans from the Land of Lincoln are taking a pass on the Republican National Convention where delegates are expected to nominate contentious real estate developer Donald Trump.
Police across Connecticut were asked to increase vigilance after the shooting deaths of three police officers in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday morning. "All members of the Hartford Police Department are reminded to maintain situational awareness at all times and utilize officer safety tactics and techniques," Deputy Chief Brian Foley said in a statement released on Twitter.