Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
"In 1947, when the UN was discussing the plan to partition Palestine, I was a member of the sub-committee dealing with Jerusalem. One day, the Jews sent a new representative.
The presumptive Republican candidate was warned Obama he will be verbally attacked if he chooses to help with the Democrat candidate ahead of the general election. His comments come just a day after President Obama appeared on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and criticised the Republican party for their selection.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump responded to the most recent attack from 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Saturday morning on Twitter, saying Romney calling Trump racist is untrue. Mitt Romney had his chance to beat a failed president but he choked like a dog.
Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell met quietly on Friday as public support from the party establishment for Trump has frayed over his controversial rhetoric. Trump mentioned the meeting, which took place in Williamsburg, Virginia, in an off-hand remark at a campaign event Saturday in Tampa, Florida, as he warned that Republican senators who don't endorse him could lose their seats in November.
Campaigning in a pair of crucial battleground states, Donald Trump bashed Democrats and Republicans alike Saturday, from Hillary Clinton to former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. First at a convention center in Tampa, Florida, and then in an airport hangar outside Pittsburgh, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee tore into fellow Republicans who have been slow to back him, again dashing hopes among some in the party that Trump would solely train his fire on his likely general election foe.
An at-times emotional Mitt Romney lashed out at the slate of 2016 Republican presidential candidates for failing to stop Donald Trump , saying what's become of the GOP "is breaking my heart." CNN and Politico reported Romney appeared to tear up during the closed-door gathering when making the comment at a summit he's hosting for many of his top supporters and donors from the 2012 campaign.
Voters should not have to choose a "lesser evil" of the two major parties' nominees, likely Green Party nominee Jill Stein said to about 70 people on Saturday. She argued in an afternoon speech that the party has been "ahead of the curve" on racial equality, climate change and LGBT issues.
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.
It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Donald Trump - one that allowed the "Never Trump" movement to emerge from the ashes with some much-needed newfound energy. The presumptive Republican nominee prompted sharp criticism from members within his own party when he publicly argued that a US federal judge's Mexican heritage made him unfit to oversee fraud cases involving Trump University.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will capture most of the spotlight ahead of the November general election, but in New Jersey, voters will also pick their 12-member congressional delegation and whether to gamble on approving casino expansion. Tuesday's primary set the slate for the Nov. 8 election when the state's nearly 5.5 million registered voters will decide whether to keep their U.S. House delegation.
Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan are playing the Washington, D.C. word game of the moment, in which they say they are supporting Donald Trump for president, but not endorsing him. There is no real difference between support and endorse, but Murkowski and Sullivan would love it if the former could signify a bare minimum level of approval, like a "D" in political science class.
Mitt Romney on Saturday torched Donald Trump and the Republicans who failed to stop his climb to the party's presidential nomination, saying the current fortunes of the GOP are "breaking my heart." Romney's condemnation, made at the Stein Eriksen Lodge before hundreds of his donors and business partners, highlighted the ill will between the last two GOP nominees for president.
Yet Americans say they still believe in America, the experiment in democracy that the founders described as a place where the government should protect the rights of ordinary people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There's something at the core of America they long for, even if it's hard to define and seems distant in 2016.
Romney says Trump will change America with 'trickle-down racism' - Park City, Utah (CNN)Mitt Romney suggested Friday that Donald Trump's election could legitimize racism and misogyny, ushering in a change in the moral fabric of American society. - The 2012 Republican nominee
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.
"It can't happen here? My friends, it is happening here." So says New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia near the end of the "The Plot Against America," the Philip Roth novel from 12 years ago that re-imagines American history if the isolationist, Hitler-sympathizing anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh had become president instead of Franklin Roosevelt.
Weary Republicans are looking for assurances that Donald Trump can maintain the discipline needed to stay on message as he prepares for a bruising general election run-up against Hillary Clinton. Trump's conciliatory, teleprompter-guided victory speech Tuesday appeared to stave off- at least for the time being - a near-revolt over his racially divisive attacks against the American-born judge of Mexican heritage hearing the case against his now-defunct Trump University.
It's hard not to fall into apocalyptic speculation when one hears about strange and troubling events. There are rumours on the internet that we are about to see flying pigs and other strange happenings.
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, perhaps taking license from Jerry Seinfeld, describes the current presidential race as "the campaign about nothing."