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House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared Wednesday before the Economic Club of Washington to discuss economic policy and, inevitably, politics. Two days earlier, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump debated Hillary Clinton and was panned for a poor performance and inadequate preparation.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry sought to raise the stakes Wednesday in the debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, warning that U.S. leadership and credibility in Asia would be severely damaged if Congress fails to approve the largest regional trade accord in history. The fate of the 12-nation pact, known as the TPP, will go a long way toward determining "whether the United States of America is an Asia-Pacific power or whether we are not - and the 'not' carries with it serious consequences," Kerry said in a speech at the Wilson Center.
Hillary Clinton sought Wednesday to parlay her widely praised debate performance into stronger support from women, young Americans and other critical voter groups, while Donald Trump kept focus on the die-hard backers who have thronged his rallies this year. Two days after her first debate against Trump, Clinton was trying to extract maximum political gain from the more controversial aspects of Trump's performance.
"WE LIVE in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns," snarls the demonic Colonel Jessep at the end of "A Few Good Men".
At the presidential debate on Monday night, Donald Trump called out Hillary Clinton by saying that the former secretary of state "doesn't have the look or the stamina" to become president. Anthem-churning and wig-wearing musical artist Sia disagreed with Trump, and Wednesday morning she let the world know she's voting for Clinton with a video montage filled with photographs of the Democratic candidate throughout the years.
Donald Trump might have held back on bringing up former President Clinton 's extramarital affairs during Monday's debate, but Mr. Trump 's deputy campaign manager on Wednesday labeled Hillary Clinton an "enabler" who attacked women. "I think that if you look at Hillary Clinton 's background and if you look at her being an enabler, really, in the '90s and really attacking these women, it goes against everything that she now tries to spout as a candidate for president," Mr. Bossie said.
General Electric Co., which bought Alstom SA's energy units last year, will be flexible and build a relationship with the next president of the U.S., whether it's Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, Vice Chairman John Rice said. "We will operate with whoever is the president of the United States in January," though GE doesn't agree with some of the rhetoric out of the election season, Rice said in an interview at the Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit in Hong Kong Wednesday.
In more than 120 years, the Arizona Republic has never endorsed a Democrat for president - but on Tuesday, that changed. The Arizona newspaper threw its support behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, snubbing GOP nominee Donald Trump as "not conservative and not qualified."
Paper's choice marks its first endorsement of a Democrat in a general election since it launched more than a century ago The Republic announced Tuesday that it had endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton - the first time the paper has endorsed a Democrat in a presidential election since it launched in 1890. "The challenges the United States faces domestically and internationally demand a steady hand, a cool head and the ability to think carefully before acting."
Facing backlash over her support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Etana has apologised to Jamaicans for endorsing the controversial real estate billionaire. "My recent remarks were made against the background of the real fear of terrorist attacks and acts of random violence that are so pervasive in the US right now.
Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres Peres has died in hospital where he was admitted on September 13 after suffering a stroke with internal bleeding. Photo: AFP Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Wednesday, his personal doctor told AFP, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke.
Major Asian stock markets were lower Tuesday after investors were reassured by trade-friendly Hillary Clinton's performance in a U.S. presidential debate with rival Donald Trump. KEEPING SCORE: Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.5 percent to 16,426.61 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.6 percent to 23,440.18.
When Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton's stamina on the debate stage, Pennsylvania voter Patricia Bennett said she heard a "dog whistle" that smacked of unmistakable sexism. "Why doesn't he just say that she needs more testosterone?" said Bennett, a 69-year-old independent from the Philadelphia suburbs who plans to vote for Clinton in November.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump got back on message on Tuesday after Democrat Hillary Clinton put him on the defensive at their first debate, and he cast her as "stuck in the past" and himself as a change agent. Trump's speech to thousands at a rally in a Florida airport hangar included some points that some supporters wished he had made before the record television audience of 84 million people for the debate on Monday in Hempstead, New York.
If there is any silver lining for Donald Trump, it's that the road to the White House is often lined with abysmal performances in the first presidential debate. Ronald Reagan had to fend off concerns about dementia in 1984 after stumbling through his first battle with Walter Mondale.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport in Melbourne, Fla., on Sept. 27. MELBOURNE, Fla.
Political outsider Donald Trump exceeded expectations in yesterday's first US presidential debate if only by successfully binding Washington veteran Hillary Clinton to America's entrenched economic problems. While the media and political elites scored the debate as a Clinton win, it is likely the public will see it differently.
Monday night's first debate between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was hyped as if were a heavyweight championship boxing match. In many ways, it was.