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Bill Clinton accepted nearly $20 million in payments from a prominent for-profit education company, despite the fact that his wife, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has made criticism of such firms a cornerstone of her education policy proposals, a new report alleges. The former president took at least $17.6 million from Laureate International Universities, a large for-profit education conglomerate that runs at least 80 schools and universities across the world, in exchange for a five-year role as "honorary chancellor," NBC News reported.
Donald Trump, after weeks of self-inflicted damage, has seen support for his candidacy in national polls dip into the 30s - Barry Goldwater and Walter Mondale territory - while Hillary Clinton has extended her lead to double digits in several crucial swing states. The vote may be more favorable to Trump than the worst-case-scenario prognosticators suggest for a very simple reason: Landslides do not really happen in presidential elections anymore.
More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
Hillary Clinton's connections between her political life and the global foundation that she and her husband launched are being questioned in light of her presidential bid. Changes to the way the Clinton Foundation operates have started to emerge in recent days and the extent of those changes depends on the fate of the November election.
More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
Hillary Clinton was confronted by a new round of questions about potential conflicts of interest between her family's foundation and her work at the State Department as well as the prospect that more e-mails from her private account will be released right up to the November election. Separate lawsuits brought by the conservative group Judicial Watch spurred the release Monday of previously undisclosed e-mail exchanges between a former Clinton Foundation executive and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, as well as an order from a federal judge that the State Department expedite its review of almost 15,000 previously undisclosed documents the FBI recovered from Clinton's private e-mail servers.
For more than a decade, lawmakers have been pointing at their counterparts to take the blame for what just about everyone agrees is a broken immigration system. Republicans say President Barack Obama's immigration enforcement policies encourage more people to sneak into the country.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered nearly 15,000 new emails to or from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state, and a federal judge has ordered a speedy release of the emails. Lawyers for the State Department suggested to begin the release of the emails by Oct. 14. However, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington rejected the proposal, ordering the State Department to prioritize Clinton's emails and to return to court on Sept.
Once again, the Clinton Foundation popped up to give the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton a nosebleed. A batch of emails turned up by a conservative activist group's FOIA requests revealed, in the words of the Wall Street Journal , "new examples of a Clinton Foundation official seeking access to the State Department on behalf of donors at a time when Hillary Clinton led the department."
Former President Bill Clinton defended the work of his charitable foundation Monday, telling supporters that it had "improved millions of lives around the world" but needs to change if his wife, Hillary Clinton, wins the White House. The former president outlined the Clinton Foundation's accomplishments and planned shift in scope in an email to about 500,000 supporters.
Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash made allegations of corruption and pay-for-play - that Hillary Clinton leveraged her power as Secretary of State to benefit big donors to the Clinton Foundation - and that scandal has simmered since before the book's release last May. Early on, several establishment news outlets investigated the narratives of Clinton Cash and confirmed many of its findings. Leaked documents from the Democratic National Committee showed that the party deemed the Clinton Foundation a vulnerability for Clinton; the global charity, worth billions, received zero mentions during the week-long Democratic National Convention.
Voters have long seen women as more honest than men. As more women hold high political offices, that dual standard is changing - as the recent legal troubles of female politicians in Pennsylvania and Florida show.
Donald Trump called Monday for the shutdown of the Clinton Foundation, saying the nonprofit organization is "the most corrupt enterprise in political history." "It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history.
The Clinton campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment. But lobbyists who are part of Clinton's deep network of Washington contacts have raised millions of dollars for her campaign - suggesting that a President Clinton may be more open to appointing lobbyists to positions in her administration.
Usually, candidates say which former presidents they'd seek to emulate. But Donald Trump has no sense of history-while Hillary Clinton has too much of her own.
The 'Revenant' actor was due to hold an event at his Los Angeles home for the US Presidential candidate on Tuesday but after discovering he would be held up in New York, he asked Justin and his wife Jessica Biel to step in. A source told PEOPLE: "Leonardo DiCaprio was scheduled to host a fundraiser with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday at his home in LA.
Whether it's Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, the next president will bring to office unprecedented financial entanglements that could pose significant conflicts of interest, ethics experts say, and there is no law that would regulate them. Since federal ethics rules don't apply to the president, there would be no formal impediment to Bill Clinton doing business with interested parties while his wife is in the Oval Office, or to Donald Trump demanding a tax break for a new golf course from a country that wants U.S. aid.
While it's true that presidents don't have as much influence over the economy as most Americans imagine, Republicans have successfully created the image that they are superior economic managers to Democrats . However, Trump has also run a dramatically different campaign than most Republican presidents.
If former Vice President Al Gore had his way, we would have only one year left to enjoy the convenience of our cars. In his 1992 book, "Earth in the Balance," Gore called for the elimination of automobile internal combustion engines within 25 years.
ABC and NBC's evening newscasts on Thursday barely mentioned the Clinton Foundation's announcement that it would stop accepting foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president. ABC's World News Tonight set aside 25 seconds of air time to the news at the end of a full report on the Donald Trump campaign preparing for the billionaire's first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.