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"I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump," President Obama said. President Obama, in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine that the publication billed as a "very early draft of his memoirs," revealed that he felt the origins in the bitter and uncompromising partisan divide that has emerged during the current presidential race boil down to one person: Sarah Palin.
Ever defiant, Donald Trump and his Republican allies embraced a report that said the New York businessman may not have paid federal income taxes for nearly two decades after he and his companies lost nearly $916 million in a single year. The unexpected weekend revelation punctuated a week of missteps and aggressive personal attacks from the Republican presidential contender, with early voting already underway in some states and Election Day quickly approaching.
Vice presidential candidates Mike Pence and Tim Kaine will debate Tuesday night, Oct. 4, 2016. Pence held a rally in York, Pa., Thursday, and the next day, we visited the city's New Eastern Market, a favorite shopping spot on Fridays, and asked people if they knew either candidate and whether they would watch the debate.
NEW YORK – Ever defiant, Donald Trump and his Republican allies embraced a report Sunday that said the New York businessman might not have paid federal income taxes for nearly two decades after he and his companies lost nearly $916 million in a single year. The unexpected revelation punctuated a week of missteps and aggressive personal attacks from the Republican presidential contender, with early voting already underway in some states and Election Day quickly approaching.
The sincerity of her campaign speech is questionable as she covers up what she is really doing in secret behind locked doors. Her political resume confirms she has experience, but it also confirms her experience comes with a lot of worn-out negative baggage.
Tuesday's vice presidential debate in Virginia will be the only time Mike Pence and Tim Kaine get the nation's political attention all to themselves. Pence is Donald Trump's running mate and he's taken a decidedly un-Trump-like approach - he prepared for the event with mock debates and numerous study sessions.
North Carolina voters who've soured on contentious laws addressing gay rights, voter ID and abortion might muster enough political muscle to replace Republican Gov. Pat McCrory with a Democrat in November. But the GOP lawmakers who approved them almost certainly will keep control of the legislature.
Ahead of the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2016 race, more than a quarter of Americans cannot name the vice presidential nominee of either major party. ABC News together with our partners at SSRS survey research firm asked an online opinion panel about the upcoming debate between Republican Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, which takes places Tuesday at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
Rudy Giuliani, a close adviser to Donald Trump, says the Republican candidate is a "genius" if he avoided federal income taxes and noted that poor people can take advantage the same tax "loophole." Giuliani told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that if Trump hadn't used his business loses to his advantage on his taxes, he would have been sued by any business partners and shareholders.
Trump, allies try to contain tax avoidance story New York Times says Trump claimed a billion dollar loss and may have avoided taxes for years. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2dQTYkT Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gestures following a rally at Spooky Nook Sports center in Manheim, Pennsylvania on October 1, 2016.
Donald Trump's campaign, reeling Sunday from a report that the business mogul may not have paid taxes for up to 18 years after declaring a $916 billion loss on his 1995 returns, mounted a vigorous defense by calling the revelation proof of the Republican presidential nominee's "genius." A New York Times report late Saturday showed how Trump had used byzantine tax laws to cancel out income taxes after his real estate and casino empire nearly collapsed in the early 1990s, and the Times calculated that the resulting deductions may have allowed him to pay no federal income taxes for 18 years.
The LAPD's fatal shooting of black teen, identified by his family as Carnell Snell Jr., is the latest to spark angry protests on Saturday, Oct. 1. The death of a black teenager, who was fatally shot Saturday afternoon by a police officer following a car chase, drew an angry - albeit peaceful - crowd on the streets of south Los Angeles. Los Angeles police shot the 18-year-old following a traffic stop at about 1 p.m. Officers tried to pull over a car with paper license plates, suspecting the vehicle was stolen, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.
The crowd listens to republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak at Spooky Nook Sports Complex in Manhime, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. The crowd listens to republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak at Spooky Nook Sports Complex in Manhime, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016.
The vice presidential nominees, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, will meet on the debate stage Tuesday. It'll be two traditional politicians facing off in a non-traditional election year: Kaine as the safe and even boring choice by Hillary Clinton and Pence as the calm, unflappable balance to Donald Trump's bombast.
A price or tax on carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels is long past due in the Northwest and the rest of the United States. Washington voters have a chance to break a political gridlock over state climate change policy by adopting Initiative 732 on Nov. 8. If enacted, the carbon tax would gradually move Washington closer in sync with British Columbia, which adopted such a tax nearly a decade ago to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Donald Trump's business losses in 1995 were so large that they could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for as many as 18 years, according to records obtained by The New York Times. In a story published online late Saturday, the Times said it anonymously received the first pages of Trump's 1995 state income tax filings in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, left, holds an image he says is misleading and was created by critics of his public lands proposal while speaking during a news conference as Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, center, and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, right, looks on at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE CITY - A new legal analysis from a group of Western attorneys general casts doubt on many of the arguments Utah has put forward in its push to gain control of millions of acres of federal land.
Gov. Scott Walker has asked a federal agency to assess damage to roads and bridges caused by recent floods and mudslides in western Wisconsin. Walker's office said Friday the governor requested the Federal Emergency Management Agency conduct a preliminary damage assessment of public infrastructure in 12 counties.