Donald Trump Tries To Trick Americans Into Believing Crime Is Spiking

Donald Trump plans to paint a portrait of a nation in "crisis" where crime is spinning out of control thanks to President Barack Obama, when the business mogul accepts the Republican presidential nomination Thursday. According to a prepared draft of Trump's speech , he will deem himself the "law and order" president - and promise that "crime and violence" would "come to an end" once he becomes president - all the while probably hoping Americans won't look at the facts.

Trump’s Campaign Chair Just Made A Sexist 1950s Argument For Why Women Will Support Him

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's campaign chairman, had a remarkably simple explanation as to how his boss will win women's votes in November: They're so worried about their husbands' income, they'll pick the GOP. Manafort was speaking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews ahead of Trump's closing address to the Republican National Convention .

Cruz may be down, but he is not out as a favorite of the pro-Israel right

Ted Cruz speaking at the Zionist Organization of America's 2014 gala in New York City. Photo is screenshot from YouTube Wednesday night's gripping tale of a dramatic, sudden repudiation of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by Sheldon Adelson, the major pro-Israel philanthropist and Republican donor, seems a little less consequential in the light of Thursday morning, according to folks who are close with Adelson and his wife, Miriam.

Trumpa s big speech: Heavy on nostalgia for better past, like his campaign slogan

Donald Trump will deliver the most important speech of his young political career borrowing from an old message drawn from the same nostalgic well as his campaign slogan about making America great again. His campaign staff had signalled this week that he would echo the 1968 address by Richard Nixon which began with a dual lament - chaos in the streets at home and violence abroad.

Donald Trump presidency would set US back 40 years, says UK mini-wall artist

A British artist who installed a mini-wall around Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame says he fears the US could be set back 40 years if the billionaire tycoon becomes president. The artist, who is known by the pseudonym Plastic Jesus, built a 15cm high grey wall around the star, topped with razor wire, miniature US flags and Keep Out signs.

Cotton: Trump needs to learn Putin is not a ‘friend’ of the U.S.

Donald Trump needs to get over his admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to one of the presumptive GOP nominee's most hawkish supporters. "I hope that when Donald Trump begins to receive intelligence briefings of the nature that I've been reviewing for a year and a half now in the Intelligence Committee that he might have a slightly different perspective on Vladimir Putin, because Vladimir Putin is not a friend of the United States," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said during a foreign policy conversation in Cleveland Thursday.

Trump accepts GOP nomination tonight; but first, a Twitter war with Ted Cruz

On the day he claims the presidential nomination of Abraham Lincoln's political party, Donald Trump has started things off with social-media missiles fired against the embarrassed losers still refusing to back him. The prelude to the prime-time moment where he will accept the Republican nomination included tweeting at the people who have withheld endorsements of him - a group that includes the two president Bushes, nominee Mitt Romney, the popular governor of the state hosting the convention, and the No.

Convention protesters dispute police account of flag-burning

The organizers of a flag-burning outside the Republican convention that resulted in 17 arrests said Thursday that the man holding the American flag was never on fire and that police used that as an excuse to attack them. Among those arrested was Gregory "Joey" Johnson, whose torching of a flag at a GOP convention three decades ago led to the landmark 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said flag-burning is protected by the First Amendment.

RNC Day 3: Boos for Cruz, Cheers for Pence

There were intense protests outside Quicken Loans Arena, and protest of a different sort inside -- boos for Donald Trump's former presidential rival Ted Cruz. It all came during the third day of the Republican National Convention, as Cruz failed to endorse the nominee looking on from a corner of the "Q."

Why I Just Quit the Republican Party

The Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded ending my 44-year GOP membership. First, Trump's boorish, selfish, puerile, and repulsive character, combined with his prideful ignorance , his off-the-cuff policy making, and his neo-fascistic tendencies make him the most divisive and scary of any serious presidential candidate in American history.

Cheers for Pence, boos for Cruz at GOP convention

Stubbornly undercutting calls for Republican unity, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Donald Trump Wednesday night as he addressed the GOP convention, ignoring thunderous boos from furious delegates as he encouraged Americans to simply "vote your conscience" in November. In a surreal moment, Trump unexpectedly walked into the arena just as Cruz was wrapping up his remarks.