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Donald Trump drew new criticism from opponents this weekend over comments he said during a campaign stop outside Detroit on Friday where he asked for the support of black voters. "Look at how much African-American communities are suffering from Democratic control.
The era of Barack Obama as U.S. president is gradually winding down, with less than six months left before we get either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the White House. One of the memories of Obama's tenure will be his presence on social media, a dynamic highlighted on Saturday by Twitter as Obama's verified presidential account, @POTUS , hit the 10 million follower mark.
Donald Trump is like a parasite that has been injected into the Republican Party and his candidacy could damage the party's ability to win elections for the foreseeable future, a US pollster and Republican political strategist has said. Mr Trump, whose bid for the White House has been characterised by a series of gaffes in recent months, is lagging behind Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the polls.
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.
The editor of the major Louisiana newspaper that urged President Obama to cut short his summer vacation to see the devastating flooding that has damaged roughly 40,000 home said Friday he's pleased that the president will visit the state. "Our feeling is that this is a crisis that calls for presidential leadership, and we're glad to see the president is coming," Advocate Editor Peter Kovacs told Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
"Everything is gone. School is gone. Home is gone. Church is gone," s... . Amanda Burge looks at flood damage with two of her three children Aiden, right, and Hudson, left, at her home in Denham Springs, La., Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.
Income inequality has surged near levels last seen before the Great Depression. The average income for the top 1 percent of households climbed 7.7 percent last year to $1.36 million, according to tax data.
Donald Trump's turbulent summer has been shadowed by a nagging question: Does the Republican nominee actually want to win the presidency? He moved to steady his struggling campaign with a late-in-the-game staff shakeup, replacing controversial campaign chair Paul Manafort with a veteran pollster and a conservative media executive who shares his populist views. He delivered a series of more formal speeches, unheard of for a candidate who prefers unscripted rallies.
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.
Republican Donald Trump again made a direct appeal to black voters Friday night, urging them to abandon the Democratic Party and give him a chance. Speaking at a rally in Dimondale, Michigan, an overwhelmingly white suburb outside of Lansing, the GOP nominee argued that Democrats, including his rival Hillary Clinton, have taken advantage of African-American voters and taken their votes for granted.
I do not know if American democracy will survive this bizarre election year, but if it does not make it, I can predict the cause of death. The smoking gun will be the growing, highly toxic, self-serving, and baseless belief that whenever one's favored candidate, party or issue loses an election, it must be because "the system" was "rigged" by the winning side.
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has sold himself as a businessman who has made billions of dollars and is beholden to no one. But an investigation into the financial maze of Trump's real estate holdings in the United States reveals that companies he owns have at least $650 million in debt - twice the amount than can be gleaned from public filings he has made as part of his bid for the White House.
NPR loves to imagine itself as an oasis of civility compared to nasty commercial talk radio. NPR host Diane Rehm has written haughty op-eds about how Rush Limbaugh et al are a blight on the radio.
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.
Donald Trump sought to reboot his flagging presidential bid Friday, dismissing his tainted campaign chairman and seeking to broaden his shrinking support base by appealing to black voters and visiting flood-ravaged Louisiana. The resignation of the seasoned Republican strategist Paul Manafort -- under fire for his pro-Kremlin ties and role in a Ukrainian corruption scandal -- represents the Republican nominee's latest effort to get back on track after weeks of crisis.
Washington, August 20: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has sought an apology from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the death and destruction she caused in the Middle East as the US secretary of state. "Her tenure as secretary of state may be regarded as the most disastrous in US history.
Donald Trump was more presidential than President Barack Obama in going to the flooded areas in Louisiana Friday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said. "Today, Donald Trump acted more Presidential than the President himself, by immediately going to Louisiana while President Obama chose to continue playing golf and Hillary Clinton phoned in her views," Giuliani said in a statement, according to The Hill.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake would like to see Donald Trump individually apologize to the people he's offended, not just issue a broad "regret" like he did in a speech Thursday night. According to BuzzFeed News, Flake - who first joined the Senate in 2013 - told Phoenix radio station KFYI he isn't part of the "Never Trump" movement but he does feel the Republican presidential nominee owes several people apologies.
Kellyanne Conway, new campaign manager for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. Donald Trump is overhauling his campaign again, bringing in Breitbart News' Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO in addition to promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager.
In high school, I was a rather awkward, nerdish history buff . I was also something of a lefty, particularly compared to my conservative religious upbringing.