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JULY 5: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts on July 5, 2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Earlier in the day Hillary Clinton campaigned in This should have been the best week of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Newt Gingrich says that he thinks Donald Trump is a "necessary candidate" amid global anti-establishment sentiment, but that he wouldn't automatically say yes to an eventual proposal to become Trump's running mate. The former House Speaker said in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press that he thinks Trump will make his choice Thursday or Friday ahead of the Republican convention.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
After weeks of focusing on a group of current and former elected officials in his search for a running mate, Donald Trump is increasingly intrigued by the idea of tapping retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn in order to project strength and know-how on national security, according to four people familiar with the vetting process.
After the take-down of Hillary Clinton by FBI Director James Comey after announcing that career investigators at the FBI found no credible evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton, Matt Miller of the Washington Post wrote, "When FBI Director James B. Comey stepped to the lectern to deliver his remarks about Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, he violated time-honored Justice Department practices for how such matters are to be handled, set a dangerous precedent for future investigations and committed a gross abuse of his own power.
Sen. Bernie Sanders' effort to shape the Democratic Party's election platform scored a major victory Friday with the approval of an amendment calling for increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. The self-described "democratic socialist" from Vermont had repeatedly called for the increase during his surprisingly strong campaign for the Democratic nomination.
A look at protests and related events nationwide and in the United Kingdom on Friday following the police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and the deadly sniper attack on police officers in Dallas. About 300 people gathered in front of the state Capitol to seek solutions to racial strife, which Little Rock knows so well.
New revelations about one of Donald Trump's for-profit educational ventures have turned the spotlight on a Jewish Florida couple with their own checkered past in business. Though the now-defunct Trump Institute bore the name of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, in reality it had little to do with him - which was part of the problem.
Write something critical of Donald Trump and prepare yourself for on onslaught of angry emails complaining: "Well, yeah, sure, but what about that crooked liar Hillary Clinton?" Conversely, pen a negative piece about Clinton, and just as reliable as a returning Capistrano swallow, you can rest assured of getting a full froth of: "Well, yeah, sure, but what about that nutball Donald Trump?" as if there is a perfectly balanced 50-50 equivalency of craziness on the campaign trail. As we approach the Democratic and Republican conventions this month, the national political discourse has devolved into a vigorous debate over which candidate to hold the highest office in the land is less of a conniving, duplicitous dolt than the other camp.
People are lined up to attend a campaign event with Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday in Scranton, Pa. Later the event was canceled because of the shootings in Dallas.
Army reservist Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, who shot dead five cops at Dallas Black Lives Matter protest had bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal in his home Video in aftermath of Dallas police slaughter appears to show protesters DANCING and 'taunting' officers in a 7-Eleven parking lot 'This is now war!' Former Congressman Joe Walsh warns 'cop hater' Obama to 'watch out' after police officers are shot dead in Dallas Newt Gingrich calls 'Baloney!' on Black Lives Matter after Dallas cop killings as he says Democratic politicians have betrayed urban black voters 'That's what us whites get for trying to help!!': White supremacists including some Donald Trump supporters talk of 'race war' in the wake of Dallas police murders Tennessee gunman who shot postal carrier dead and wounded three others before shoot-out with cops 'targeted white people after ... (more)
Army reservist Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, who shot dead five cops at Dallas Black Lives Matter protest had bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal in his home Video in aftermath of Dallas police slaughter appears to show protesters DANCING and 'taunting' officers in a 7-Eleven parking lot 'This is now war!' Former Congressman Joe Walsh warns 'cop hater' Obama to 'watch out' after police officers are shot dead in Dallas Newt Gingrich calls 'Baloney!' on Black Lives Matter after Dallas cop killings as he says Democratic politicians have betrayed urban black voters 'That's what us whites get for trying to help!!': White supremacists including some Donald Trump supporters talk of 'race war' in the wake of Dallas police murders Tennessee gunman who shot postal carrier dead and wounded three others before shoot-out with cops 'targeted white people after ... (more)
Army reservist Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, who shot dead five cops at Dallas Black Lives Matter protest had bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal in his home Video in aftermath of Dallas police slaughter appears to show protesters DANCING and 'taunting' officers in a 7-Eleven parking lot 'This is now war!' Former Congressman Joe Walsh warns 'cop hater' Obama to 'watch out' after police officers are shot dead in Dallas Newt Gingrich calls 'Baloney!' on Black Lives Matter after Dallas cop killings as he says Democratic politicians have betrayed urban black voters 'That's what us whites get for trying to help!!': White supremacists including some Donald Trump supporters talk of 'race war' in the wake of Dallas police murders Tennessee gunman who shot postal carrier dead and wounded three others before shoot-out with cops 'targeted white people after ... (more)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she doesn't want to think about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House, and she predicts the next president - "whoever she will be" - will have a few appointments to make to the Supreme Court.
Most white Americans "don't understand being black in America" and the discrimination African Americans face, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, said Friday. Gingrich, who is among a group of individuals presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is vetting as a possible running mate, made his remark during a Facebook town hall with Van Jones, a former aide in the Obama administration.
A man who drew criticism for his Norfolk Fourth of July parade float comparing President Barack Obama 's future presidential library to an outhouse has created a new display targeting Donald Trump , Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders . The Norfolk Daily News reports that Dale Remmich posed a skeleton mannequin inside a makeshift jail cell.
Donald Trump says he won't stand for it if it turns out some of his hats labelled "Made in USA" actually weren't made in the USA. The baseball-style "Make America Great Again" hats are indeed stitched together at a small factory in the Los Angeles area.
Dallas police officers gather outside Baylor Medical Center, where several officers injured in a mass shooting were taken for care. Dallas police officers gather outside Baylor Medical Center, where several officers injured in a mass shooting were taken for care.
A day after a defiant Donald Trump clashed with some anxious Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the presumptive GOP nominee is headed to another potentially contentious spot: Miami. Trump plans to deliver a speech titled "Succeeding Together" on Friday in Miami-Dade County, home to the largest Cuban-American population in the U.S. It was the only one of Florida's 67 counties that Trump lost in the state's March 15 primary, an outcome that underscores the billionaire businessman's deep unpopularity among Hispanic voters.
Donald Trump, in a sharp shift in strategy, is now refusing to appear on many television outlets, and top advisers who want to limit his exposure are no longer notifying him of every interview request. According to sources familiar with the campaign, one faction is worried that the constant rounds of interviews entail too much risk of the candidate making mistakes or fanning minor controversies, even though his mastery at driving the media agenda helped power his Republican primary victory.