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The European Union must flex its muscles as a world power, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday, as he spoke critically of U.S. President Donald Trump's retreat from international engagement. FILE PHOTO: President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker speaks about trade relations with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2018.
In this Sept. 8, 2018, photo, Former President Barack Obama greets supporters as he campaigns in support of California congressional candidates in Anaheim, Calif.
In this April 11, 2018 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter, 93, sits for an interview before a book signing in Atlanta. Carter is cautioning Democrats that their path to defeating President Donald Trump depends on independents and moderates.
In this Sept. 8, 2018, photo, former President Barack Obama speaks as he campaigns in support of California congressional candidates in Anaheim, Calif.
Several conservative economists, including one of President Donald Trump's campaign advisers, disputed the White House's claim that a corporate tax cut Trump signed into law last year has already paid for itself. Trump's top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, highlighted economic stimulus from the tax cuts as part of a presentation to reporters on Monday intended to strengthen Trump's claim that U.S. economic growth is due to his policies.
By the end, Sen. John McCain had rejected President Donald Trump. The president was so infuriated by McCain he put a biting reference to the dying Republican senator in his stump speech.
Cyclist Juli Briskman, who lost her job after flipping off the president's motorcade in Virginia, will run for Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. The woman who flipped off Trump motorcade from her bicycle is now running for office Cyclist Juli Briskman, who lost her job after flipping off the president's motorcade in Virginia, will run for Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.
When the Democratic Party told Lauren Underwood she needed to raise $100,000 in six weeks to get her campaign for Congress off the ground, she wasn't sure what to do. The nurse from suburban Chicago had never run for office, and her fundraising experience was mostly limited to selling Girl Scout cookies for $4 a box.
Former President Barack Obama's recent denunciation of President Donald Trump's treatment of the press overlooks the aggressive steps the Justice Department took to keep information from the public during his administration. Obama also made a problematic claim that Republican "sabotage" has cost 3 million people their health insurance.
With a powerful hurricane bearing down on the Southeast coast, President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned attention back to the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago, deeming it "incredibly successful" even though a recent federal report found that nearly 3,000 people died. The administration's efforts in Puerto Rico received widespread criticism.
A black former police chief backed by the Trump administration won the Republican nomination Tuesday in New Hampshire's toss-up congressional district, while Democrats picked experienced, establishment-backed nominees for both that seat and for governor. Eddie Edwards, who was endorsed by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, defeated six Republican opponents in the 1st Congressional District, which covers the eastern half of the state.
US President Donald Trump dismissed journalist Bob Woodward's bombshell book as a "joke" Monday, a day before readers get their first full look at his detailed account of a White House in disarray. "Fear: Trump in the White House" hit US bookstores yesterday after a weeklong buildup, with published excerpts, leaks and interviews that portray Trump as dangerously erratic and uninformed.
Yale Law School, from which Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh got his law degree, issued a statement about him with glowing quotes from professors attesting to his impeccable legal credentials. Perhaps the Yale Law faculty deemed his credentials impeccable because he graduated from Yale Law School.
Cataclysmic events often bring with them violent and abrupt endings to settled ages and long- established norms. Those absorbing the impact of these historical aftershocks rarely grasp the epochal changes in real time.
Here's the thing about campaigning as an outsider, as Donald Trump did in 2016: If you win the election, you are the person in charge. You are expected to accomplish what you said you would do, or make a darn good effort to do so.
With a powerful hurricane bearing down on the southeast coast, President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned attention back to the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago, deeming it "incredibly successful" even though a recent federal report found that nearly 3,000 people died. The administration's efforts in Puerto Rico received widespread criticism.
A trio of progressive groups will spend $10 million between now and Election Day on digital ads to boost 75 largely obscure candidates running for state legislature. The primary goal is to give Democrats control of chambers that will play an outsized role in the next round of reapportionment, so the money will be spread across just five states: Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
Amid explosive allegations that some White House officials are actively working against President Donald Trump's agenda, Donald Trump Jr. told ABC News the number of people in the White House that his father can trust is smaller than he'd like. "I think there are people in there that he can trust, it's just - it's a much smaller group than I would like it to be," Trump Jr. said in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America .
President Donald Trump on Tuesday remembered the "band of brave patriots" aboard a Sept. 11 flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, praising passengers and crew members who resisted hijackers and sent a message that the nation would "never, ever submit to tyranny."
Hurricane Florence could strengthen into a Category 5 storm as it takes aim at the Carolinas. More than 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate FLEEING FLORENCE: President Donald Trump late Monday approved an emergency declaration for North Carolina as 'life-threatening' Hurricane Florence barrels toward the Carolinas and is expected to strengthen to a Category 5 storm a The president's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to coordinate disaster relief efforts for "the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population," a White House statement said, according to South Carolina's The State.