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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is emerging as the leading vice presidential candidate for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie running a close second, according to news reports. But more than a half-dozen other contenders remain in contention as the Trump campaign officially begins the vetting process, The Washington Post reports , based on conversations with "five people with knowledge of the process."
PARAMUS - A Paramus man pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in delivering an illegal $80,000 donation to President Obama's 2012 re-election effort, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman said. Bilal Shehu, 48, received the money in September 2012 from a "foreign source" and delivered it to a joint fundraising committee -- one that included Obama's campaign committee -- in an attempt to disguise the source of the money.
If you like numbers and you know Silver's track record in presidential elections, this should be something of a relief. Silver's model gives Trump a 19 percent chance of winning the election.
Congress approved a rescue package Wednesday to help Puerto Rico escape a sea of debt, tossing a lifeline to the island territory just two days before it faces default on a $2 billion bond payment. Senators approved the rescue package, 68-30, turning back vociferous objections from liberal lawmakers who said the bill imposes colonial rule on average Puerto Ricans, and from conservatives who said the legislation will end up stiffing the bondholders who bought the territorial government's debt.
Prior to the House Select Committee on Benghazi releasing its report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed four Americans in an embassy in Benghazi, Libya, a few Republicans and Democrats sent out their own report previews.
Republican Gov. Gary Herbert easily defeated Overstock.com executive Jonathan Johnson Tuesday to win a closely watched primary race that helped boost voter turnout to the highest level in two decades. After results came in, Herbert told reporters that he was grateful and that he believed voters felt he had a positive track record that he could build upon for the future.
As soon as pro-immigration demonstrators were cleared from the Broad Street ramp of the Vine Street Expressway Tuesday morning - including four hauled off in handcuffs - other advocates assembled five blocks away at City Hall to get out the vote against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. "From his promise to create a deportation force, to calling immigrants rapists and killers, Trump has shown he stands squarely against us," said Lizet Ocampo, Latino vote director of the People for the American Way, a national progressive advocacy group that headlined the City Hall speak-out.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says in an impassioned plea for Europe that there is no quick fix for fractures exposed by the British referendum because the reasons that nations adhere to the European Union must be reinvented. He says some aspects of Britain's EU exit must be dealt with urgently but "the process of re-founding Europe will take time."
President Barack Obama isn't expecting "major, cataclysmic changes" as a result of Britain's pending exit from the European Union. Speaking to NPR, Obama also said there are more differences than similarities when it comes to Britain's election compared with the current presidential election in the United States where discontent has fueled Republican Donald Trump's rise.
Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee faulted the Obama administration Tuesday in a report on the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The panel's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, and other Republicans accuse the Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses.
House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., speaks during a TV news interview with MSNBC, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, to discuss the release of his final report on the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where a violent mob killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., gestures during a TV news interview with MSNBC, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, to discuss the release of his final report on the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where a violent mob killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
BREAKING NEWS: BENGHAZI HOURSE REPUBLICAN REPORT RELEASED and President Obama needs to explain why for two weeks he continued to try to sell that silly video story to the American people . Did he not know it was not the video? Or was he trying to mislead the American people because his re-election was less than two months away and he had just said on Sept 5 that Al Qaeda was on the run? (The is really bad for a President if that is why.
In this Oct. 22, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional security at the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, according to Democrats on a select House panel who absolved the former secretary of state and the U.S. military of wrongdoing in the deadly Sept.
Nine candidates in Harlem are running for the seat of Rep. Charlie Rangel, who is retiring after 40 years in office. It's the most hotly contested race of the city's federal primaries.
There's a very good reason that political hacks and the hacks who love them like to insist that elections all come down to turnout: Elections all come down to turnout. For a salient recent example, we can peek over the Atlantic at the results of the British referendum on leaving the European Union.
Fiery and measured in turn, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton offered drastically different proposals Monday for stemming the threat of terrorism and gun violence that have Americans on edge following the deadly weekend attacks at a gay nightclub in Orlando. There's a very good reason that political hacks and the hacks who love them like to insist that elections all come down to turnout: Elections all come down to turnout.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laughs as he speaks with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a session on carbon pricing at the United Nations climate change summit, Monday November 30, 2015 in Le Bourget, France. A plan on how Canada will meet a promise to lift visas for Mexicans will be announced later this month when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts Mexico's president as part of the Three Amigos summit.
A 3D plastic representation of the Facebook logo is seen in this illustration in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 13, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Dado Ruvic Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
Last September, U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, made a move few would expect from a Republican in Congress. Ms. Stefanik joined U.S. Rep. Chris P. Gibson, R-Kinderhook, and eight other Republicans in breaking away from usual Republican Party attitudes toward climate change with a resolution calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to find solutions to the problem.
Democrats are worried that Brexit, the poll-defying British vote last Thursday to leave the European Union, could portend victory for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election in November. Republicans, too, see the same potential - though for different reasons.