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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 8 percentage points among likely voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. The Aug. 14-18 survey showed 42 percent of Americans supported Clinton ahead of the Nov. 8 general election.
Republican Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to build a big wall on the southern border to end the flow of illegal aliens into the United States. But does he still intend to remove the 11 million illegal aliens who already are here? On Sunday, two of Trump's advisers indicated that he's still thinking about it.
At a rally here last week, Mike Pence showed the crowd a clip of Gov. Maggie Hassan awkwardly trying to defend Hillary Clinton's honesty. "Gov. Hassan, let me help you out - the answer's no," the Republican vice presidential nominee riffed on Hassan's non-answer to whether Clinton was honest, drawing applause and laughs from the crowd.
Outside the small town of Walker, Louisiana, the rural B... . Lisa Dupuy, 41, left, prays with pastor Mark Carroll during church services at South Walker Baptist Church in Walker, La., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
I met Steve Bannon-the executive director of Breitbart.com who's now become the chief executive of the Trump campaign , replacing the newly resigned Paul Manafort -at a book party held in his Capitol Hill townhouse in early 2014. We were standing next to a picture of his daughter, a West Point graduate, who at the time was a lieutenant in the 101 Airborne Division serving in Iraq.
Hot on the heels of another major Trump campaign shakeup, former GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann revealed that she has been giving advice to nominee Donald Trump on foreign affairs including the looming threat of Islamic terrorism in the world - and not just in her home state of Minnesota. Trump made a campaign stop in Minnesota Friday night for a private event for campaign contributors only in a state where Nate Silver's 538 gives him a 13 percent chance of winning - less than his national odds of 15 percent.
The former Minnesota congresswoman attended a fundraiser in the state for Trump on Saturday, where she revealed to the press that she has his ear on foreign policy. "He also recognizes there is a threat around the world, not just here in Minnesota, of radical Islam," she said, according to MPR News.
Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson insists he won't be a "volunteer apologist" for Donald Trump or anyone else who utters something stupid, but that defiant independence is being sorely tested by the GOP presidential nominee's sinking support and Democrat Hillary Clinton's push into surprisingly competitive Georgia. The down-ballot Senate race involving the affable, two-term Isakson wasn't ranked as poachable for Democrats despite the changing demographics in the southern state and the higher, diverse turnout of a presidential election year.
President Barack Obama is returning from vacation rested and ready for a busy fall, including pressing Congress for money to protect against the Zika virus and fending off lawmakers' attacks over the administration's $400 million "leverage" payment to Iran. Obama was due at the White House late Sunday after a 16-day getaway to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha.
President Barack Obama returns from vacation rested and ready for a busy fall, including pressing Congres... . President Barack Obama is seated in the presidential vehicle as his motorcade leaves his family's rented vacation home in Chilmark, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
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For years, lawmakers have acknowledged the future financial challenges that Social Security faces in meeting its obligations to retirees. Yet more than three decades after the most recent major reform of the program, Social Security continues to elude any long-term solutions from those charged with ensuring its financial stability.
He has comforted a weeping boy, defended the Gold Star Khan family and praised New Mexico's Hispanic-American governor who backs immigration reform. The Indiana GOP governor and former congressman has been projecting a kinder, gentler Republican Party as he's hopscotched across the country during his first month as the vice presidential nominee.
Law enforcement agencies from Douglas County and throughout Georgia are partnering this weekend to help the flood-ravaged community of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, through what is being called a "Convoy of Care." "I think this is an historic event and I am excited to really show what Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal talks about as being 'One Georgia,'" said Clarence Cox, National Vice President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives .
This time, Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration and Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services needs to get it right. In contrast with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, state and local governments have performed admirably with rescues, evacuations, and provision of food and shelter in response to catastrophic flooding that has overtaken the Baton Rouge area.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to media as she meets with law enforcement leaders at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York Aug. 18. - Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa – It's no day at the beach, but Hillary Clinton is having the political equivalent of a quiet August.
And then we'll be the sad losers watching helplessly as homes and dreams are consumed by floodwaters. Just like the unfortunate souls in Baton Rouge, La., last week, and just like folks in West Virginia and South Carolina in the months before that.
Hillary Clinton is seizing on Donald Trump's recent comments that he "regrets" some things he's said in the course of his presidential campaign. Clinton seizes on Trump 'regrets' in new video Hillary Clinton is seizing on Donald Trump's recent comments that he "regrets" some things he's said in the course of his presidential campaign.
Donald Trump drew new criticism from opponents this weekend over comments he said during a campaign stop outside Detroit on Friday where he asked for the support of black voters. "Look at how much African-American communities are suffering from Democratic control.