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With Donald Trump on the defensive, Hillary Clinton says she is taking "no satisfaction" in his actions and promising to repair the damage and project a message of unity during the campaign's final weeks. Hours after her Republican rival furiously defended himself against multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, Clinton spoke Friday of the need for national healing in a Seattle fundraising speech that also saw her call upon Americans to help her govern if she's elected president.
Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton to return the tens of millions of dollars she has accepted from Saudi Arabian donors, and called again for a special prosecutor to look into her alleged crimes as Secretary of State. The hacked emails released by Wikileaks "make more clear than ever just how much is at stake come November 8. Such an important day.
Former Connecticut U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman said as his days in Washington wound down, he could see a growing chasm between lawmakers and the people they're elected to govern. "As the political system has failed to deliver for people and people have in our country have become more and more angry at Washington, it was just inevitable that somebody who was an outsider would come along," Lieberman said, following a news conference Friday.
Not since George and Martha in the play "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" or, for older readers, Don Ameche and Frances Langford in the radio comedy "The Bickersons," have we seen the kind of verbal pugilism practiced in Sunday night's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Sunday night, Clinton recycled the familiar Democrat playbook that the wealthy aren't paying their "fair share" in taxes, when the real issue is that government already receives record amounts in tax money, but misspends much of it and never seems to have enough.
Donald Trump's campaign called Wednesday for Hillary Clinton to apologize and fire senior campaign officials involved in an email exchange that Republicans condemned as "breathtaking anti-Catholic bigotry." The April 2011 email exchange details a brief conversation between current Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri and John Halpin, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank with close ties to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House.
The government ran a $587 billion budget deficit for the just-completed fiscal year, a 34 percent spike over last year after significant improvement from the record deficits of President Barack Obama 's first years in office. Friday's deficit news, while sobering, does not appear bad enough to jolt a gridlocked Washington into action to stem the flow of red ink.
Two major political groups that work to elect House Republicans said Friday they're pumping a fresh $10 million into 14 congressional races -- all of it to defend GOP-held seats. The expenditures come as Republicans have expressed concerns that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's faltering presidential campaign could hurt congressional candidates.
The Treasury Department for the final time during President Barack Obama's tenure declined to label China a currency manipulator, in an implicit rejection of Republican nominee Donald Trump's hard-line approach to the world's second-biggest economy. The Obama administration added Switzerland to a currency watch list that already included China, Japan, Germany, South Korea and Taiwan, according to a semi-annual report on global foreign-exchange policies from the Treasury.
Summer Zervos, a contestant on the fifth season of 'The Apprentice,' is the latest to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault. Trump accuser: Don't treat women as sexual objects Summer Zervos, a contestant on the fifth season of 'The Apprentice,' is the latest to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault.
Attorney Gloria Allred, left, looks on as Summer Zervos reads a statement during a news conference in Los Angeles, Friday Oct. 14, 2016. Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice" says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made unwanted sexual contact with her at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007.
Two more women came forward on Friday to accuse Donald Trump of unwanted sexual touching, including a former contestant from a reality show that starred the Republican presidential nominee. The latest accounts come after several women reported in recent days that Trump groped or kissed them without their consent.
More Trump accusers speak out: Apprentice contestant tearfully claims he groped and kissed her against her will at the Beverly Hills Hotel then 'thrust his genitals' at her as she lay in bed 'Deeply troubled women are always the best in bed': Donald Trump spoke about what sex with a teenage Lindsay Lohan might be like in 2004 interview Photographer tells how Donald Trump put his hand up her miniskirt and 'touched her vagina' in a crowded Manhattan nightspot in the '90's 'She is a fat piglet': Donald Trump called Khloe Kardashian 'ugly' and attacked her weight on Celebrity Apprentice claim sources, then asked why show did not get 'hot' sister Kim Trump ridicules his accusers AGAIN as he says he's out of their league - and then warns Obama that he could also be targeted by 'false' allegations Deaf actress Marlee Matlin slams Donald Trump's alleged use of the term 'retarded' as 'abhorrent' ... (more)
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
US President Barack Obama warned Friday that American "democracy itself" is on the ballot in November's presidential election, as White House concern grows about the lasting impact of Republican Donald Trump's scorched-earth campaign. At a fiery campaign event for Democrat Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio, Obama trashed Trump as a dictator-in-the-making, but also voiced concerns about how Trump's legion of supporters might react to a possible election defeat.
Former U.S. intelligence officer Malcolm Nance said he has no doubt that Russia is behind the latest dump of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. After all, Nance told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga Friday, Russia has been trying to influence the U.S. presidential election "ever since the beginning of this sordid campaign."
Jon Voight released a pro-Donald Trump video on Thursday warning Americans what a Hillary Clinton presidency would do to the economy, the Constitution and the country's stability. In his video titled, "Plea to Save America," the 77-year-old actor said the 2016 presidential election "will be the most important" in American history.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, under siege from fellow Republicans for his unwillingness to help Donald Trump, accused Democrat Hillary Clinton and liberals on Friday of seeking to impose "a gloom and a greyness" on America and pursuing a government-heavy agenda for elites. "In the America they want, the driving force is the state," Ryan said in remarks to college Republicans in his home state.
Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman says a video showing Donald Trump boasting about groping women was the last straw for him and why he pulled his endorsement. Portman said in a debate with Democratic challenger Ted Strickland on Friday in Youngstown that those comments by the GOP nominee for president were offensive and demeaning to women.
Rolling his eyes at the Republican nominee, President Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump's purported business acumen and newfound rage against the "global elite," as he rallied Friday for Democrat Hillary Clinton. He warned that democracy itself was at risk if Trump wins.