College student latest candidate in 43rd House District

Isaac Deal, 20, an Indiana State University political science student, said Wednesday he plans to seek the office being vacated by longtime Rep. Clyde Kersey, D-Terre Haute. Deal, whose hometown is Greencastle, said he plans to formally announce his candidacy and file the necessary paper work to run as a Republican next week.

Michigan Vietnam vet is Trump’s 1st Medal of Honor recipient

This 1969 photo provided by James McCloughan shows him with the former Army medic, right, with a platoon interpreter in Nui Yon Hill in Vietnam. An Army spokeswoman said Tuesday that McCloughan, who saved the lives of 10 soldiers during the Battle of Nui Yon Hill in May 1969 in Vietnam, will become the first person to be awarded the nation's highest military honor by President Donald Trump.

Ap Fact Check: Trumpa s messy case that he inherited a mess

President Donald Trump on Thursday made a messy case that he "inherited a mess" from his predecessor. Economic stats and territorial losses of Islamic State insurgents don't support his assertions about the problems handed to him on those fronts.

Jonathan Bernstein: There’s nothing Teflon about Trump

Donald Trump won the election. That's a fact. But since then, Trump, his supporters and even some pundits are making various claims about his victory that aren't true, starting with his Orwellian assertions to have won in a landslide or even recording "one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history".

Clinton moves closer to nomination, sweeps in Virgin Islands

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a conversation on immigration at Culinary Arts Institute of Los Angeles Mission College on Saturday, June 4, 2016 in Sylmar, Calif. Congressman Xavier Becerra, Mayor Eric Garcetti and California's Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon along with two immigrant students Clara Kim and Italia Garcia took part in the conversation.

Trump’s expected pick for top USDA scientist is not a scientist

Under the 2008 Farm Bill, its leader is supposed to serve as the agency's "chief scientist" and be chosen "from among distinguished scientists with specialized or significant experience in agricultural research, education, and economics." But Sam Clovis - who, according to sources with knowledge of the appointment and members of the agriculture trade press, is President Trump's pick to oversee the section - appears to have no such credentials.