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Chinese tycoon Wang Jianlin is wrapping up his latest Hollywood acquisition while Washington recently made a decision to review foreign investment that was inspired by his aggressive moves. Wang, who owns Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese real estate and entertainment conglomerate, visited California over the weekend to finalize the deal to buy Dick Clark Productions for about $1 billion, according to Variety .
Republican vice presidential hopeful Mike Pence is condemning the firebombing of a North Carolina Republican campaign office as an "act of political terrorism." The Indiana governor made a surprise stop Tuesday at the Orange County Republican headquarters, encouraging local GOP officials and volunteers as he stood among stacks of Donald Trump campaign signs left charred by a Molotov cocktail.
New poll numbers are out saying that Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is losing ground in Kentucky, but that Republican Senator Rand Paul is gaining ground. The controversies over alleged sex scandals, Wall Street speeches and the use of email haven't gone unnoticed, according to a poll conducted by LEX 18 Political Commentator Bob Babbage.
As Donald Trump takes on the Republican establishment, Democrats and the mainstream media, he's telling supporters they're fighting against a "rigged" system, rife with voter fraud and those eager to protect the status quo. The left, predictably, says this type of talk is "dangerous" to the integrity of our electoral system, and then glibly asks for Mr. Trump to prove his voter fraud allegations.
Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday that his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hasn't changed, despite the release of a 2005 video in which the New York billionaire boasted about forcing himself on women and allegations that Trump groped or sexually assaulted several women over the past few decades. Walker said Trump 's comments about women are inexcusable but that his support for him hasn't changed since he first made the case at the Republican national convention that electing Trump was better than a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Civil rights veteran Andrew Young and Atlanta Braves Hall of Famer Hank Aaron are urging people to vote against a constitutional amendment allowing the state to take over some Georgia schools. The proposal, backed by Gov. Nathan Deal, would allow an appointed superintendent to select up to 20 schools after three consecutive years of low performance and make them into charters, close them or overhaul management.
President Barack Obama is playing down reports that a senior State Department official had asked the FBI last year to reduce the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server. Obama said in a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday that some of the "more sensational implications or appearances" related to the report "are not based on actual events."
Until the store opens, customers can shop at the Cincinnati-area store in West Chester, OH; Chicago-area IKEA Bolingbrook and IKEA Schaumburg; or online at IKEA-USA.com . The 289,000-square-foot future IKEA Fishers and its 1,000 parking spaces will be built on 35 acres along the eastern side of Interstate 69, just south of the E. 116th Street exit, approximately 15 miles northeast of downtown Indianapolis.
In one way, the fight to replace ObamaCare seems to be entering a final phase: ObamaCare is collapsing of its own weight before our very eyes, possibly more rapidly and conclusively than even its harshest critics anticipated. In another way, however, the battle can be seen as likely entering into a new and even tougher phase to replace ObamaCare with a patient-centered, free-market reform if Hillary Clinton, who has her own history with health care, becomes president.
Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman and Democratic challenger Ted Strickland have sparred over their parties' presidential nominees in their second debate and traded jabs that they're each bending the truth to get an edge with voters. Portman and Strickland often spoke directly into the camera Monday night at a Columbus television station.
Thousands of people turned out to see Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Green Bay Monday night. Trump vowed to win Wisconsin in November and reiterated familiar promises to build a wall at the Mexican border and renegotiate trade deals.
Democratic former Sen. Evan Bayh and Republican Rep. Todd Young are set to face each other Tuesday evening in what could be their only debate during an increasingly bitter campaign for Indiana's open U.S. Senate seat. Bayh and Young will be joined by Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton for the hour-long debate beginning at 7 p.m. EDT.
Hillary Clinton is advancing into states the Democrats haven't won in decades, confidently expanding her offensive against Donald Trump and aiming to help her party win back control of Congress. There's a new $2 million push in Arizona, aides said Monday, including a campaign stop in Phoenix by first lady Michelle Obama, one of Clinton's most effective surrogates.
Hillary Clinton is advancing into states the Democrats haven't won in decades, confidently expanding her offensive against Donald Trump and aiming to help her party win back control of Congress. There's a new $2 million push in Arizona, aides said on Monday, including a campaign stop in Phoenix by first lady Michelle Obama, one of Clinton's most effective surrogates.
Donald Trump's escalating effort to undermine the presidential election as "rigged" has alarmed government officials administering the vote as well as Democratic and Republican leaders, who are anxiously preparing for the possibility of unrest or even violence on Election Day and for an extended battle over the integrity of the outcome. Hillary Clinton's advisers are privately worried that Trump's calls for his supporters to stand watch at polling places in cities such as Philadelphia for any hint of fraud will result in intimidation tactics that might threaten her supporters and suppress the votes of African-Americans and other minorities.
As Donald Trump insists that the election will be rigged, a significant portion of voters are convinced that the White House will be "stolen" from the Republican candidate. According to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll, 41 percent of registered voters believe that Trump could lose the election as a result of widespread voter fraud.
The U.S. State Department has taken a positive step to recognize the concerns some Alaskans have with upstream Canadian mining projects, but the issue is far from resolved, according to the members of Alaska's congressional delegation. Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Julia Frifield wrote in an Oct. 6 letter to the delegation that the State Department is actively engaged with Canadian officials to protect the watersheds that bisect the U.S.-Canada border along Southeast Alaska.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback answers a question from a reporter during a news conference, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Republican governor is not ruling out a tax increase to help balance the state's budget, though he thinks it would be harmful with the state facing what he calls a rural recession less Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback answers a question from a reporter during a news conference, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan.
Brigadier General Kevin Killea, the Commanding General of Camp Pendleton, Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Jay Vargas, retired, and Congressman Darrell Issa, of the 49th Congressional District, from left, stand together in front of Camp Pendleton's Medal of Honor Post Office following a Dedication Ceremony on Monday. Colonel Jay Vargas, left, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in 1970 for his service in Vietnam, stands with Congressman Darrell Issa as he helps dedicate Camp Pendleton's Medal of Honor Post Office during a ceremony on Monday on behalf of himself, "and the other 76 living Medal of Honor recipients."
John McCain: 'I don't know' if Trump will be better for Supreme Court than Clinton - Republican Sen. John McCain said on Monday that he wasn't sure if Donald Trump would be a better president for appointing Supreme Court justices than Hillary Clinton. - Trump has released lists of 21 potential justices.