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" As news of the nightclub shooting in Orlando spread, Donald Trump revived the debate over what to call acts of violence by people inspired or directed by extremist groups like the Islamic State. Even before it was clear the presumed gunman, Omar Mateen, had expressed an allegiance to the Islamic State during the shooting that killed 49 people and wounded 53, the Republican presumptive nominee declared President Barack Obama should resign if he did not use the words "radical Islamic terrorism" to label the massacre.
File- This June 11, 2016 file photo shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gesturing during a campaign speech in Tampa, Fla. Trump plans Monday to further address the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history in a campaign speech originally intended to attack the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
For Donald Trump , Sunday's mass shooting in Florida was a moment to redouble his call for tougher action against terrorism and to take credit for "being right" about the threat. For Hillary Clinton , it was a time to choose words carefully and reiterate her call for keeping "weapons of war" off America's streets.
Tel Aviv University and an Honors Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Jewish Studies, and English. [Less] Just a few days have passed since Tel Aviv was rattled by terrorists' gunfire slaying innocents who were enjoying an evening out, and again a bloody spectacle is the front page story in the Hebrew press.
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the U.S. presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The online poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, shows 46 percent of likely voters support Clinton while 34.8 percent back Trump.
Stacey Dash lays out a plan for the GOP nominee to win the black vote, while Jeffrey Lord departs reality for good To the ongoing question of whether Trump and the Republicans can sink any lower, the answer this week and every week can only be characterized as a resounding yes! Yes, they can! Way, way lower! And it is not just Trump himself, it is the spectacular limbo-like contortions his defenders and supporters perform. From Paul Ryan's Yes, he's racist but I still back him , to CNN's Jeffrey Lord's Trump is a hero for calling out racism contention.
People say Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both liars, and that's correct in the sense that they both make a general principle of avoiding the truth. To be precise, though, Hillary is a liar, while Trump is something a bit different: a bull**** artist.
As news updates rolled in about Sunday's shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub , politicians, public figures, activists and journalists took to Facebook and Twitter to send out unfiltered statements about the significance of the massacre. For prominent politicians in and seeking office, the shooting represented an obligation to comment as well as a challenge, as the tragedy touched on several highly charged issues and themes in the public sphere, including but not limited to: LGBTQ rights, homophobia, Islamophobia, gun control and terrorism.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Sunday he won't endorse Hillary Clinton for president until they meet and he measures her commitment to battling Wall Street, wealth inequality and other priorities that powered his rogue presidential campaign. "I look forward to sitting down with Secretary Clinton and see what kind of platform she is going to support and how aggressive she is going to be," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On.
So the canny 76-year-old is doing the next best thing as he heads into retirement after more than three decades: working the inside game as only he can, to ensure he leaves Democrats in control of the Senate, the White House and his home state of Nevada next year. Reid hand-picked the Democratic candidate to replace him, former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.
When I was a boy and lost just about every sporting event I tried, my father told me, "What counts isn't whether you win or lose but how you play the game." Most parents told their kids this.
The world was a more peaceful place when a newly sworn-in President Barack Obama pledged to "aggressively pursue" a global ban on nuclear arms tests. But as his term winds down, a working test-ban treaty remains a dream and some of the loudest voices out of Washington are hostile.
Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II. On a likely freezing January 20, 2017 either the adopted daughter who served twice as state senator or the Queens-born, Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
Donald Trump can be an effective president, and he's going to win with you or without you, Republican Chairman Reince Priebus told several hundred of the party's top donors and strategists Saturday. Trump is setting a dangerous example for Americans by promoting 'trickle-down racism,' and the party must look beyond this presidential election to find its future, the 2012 nominee Mitt Romney told the same group later that morning.
US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is taking heat yet again, this time for some controversial comments against a judge, as experts said this will hurt him in the presidential race. The brash New York billionaire is embroiled in a lawsuit over Trump University, as some students claimed they did not get their money's worth.
Piscataway, N.J.: How can the producers of "Hamilton" raise tickets so that the cheapest seat is $179 - before fees? And the top seat price, $849? Are you kidding? They said they did this to foil scalpers. Well guess what? Now they're the scalper.
Former Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney says it's breaking his heart to see what's happening in his party. He not only slammed Donald Trump at a GOP gathering in Utah this weekend, but he also gave a dressing-down to other presidential candidates who failed to stop him.
Donald Trump on Saturday kicked his unapologetic presidential campaign into high gear -- saying he won't apologize for his personal attacks on Sen. Elizabeth Warren and extending his feud with GOP establishment leader Mitt Romney. "The guy's a stone cold loser, a choker," Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said about Romney at a rally in Tampa, Fla.