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Visitors look at a nuclear power plant station model by American company Westinghouse at the World Nuclear Exhibition 2014, the trade fair event for the global nuclear energy sector, in Le Bourget, near Paris October 14, 2014. Toshiba Corp's Westinghouse Electric and India are in "advanced discussions" for the company to build six nuclear reactors there, the country's ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday, ahead of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's planned visit to Washington next week.
The two top Republicans in Congress are pursuing strikingly different strategies on spending bills this year, setting up a possible collision when funding for the government is scheduled to expire just weeks before the presidential election. Mitch McConnell Spending clash looms for GOP McConnell: 'Ticket-splitting' will preserve GOP Senate majority The Trail 2016: Biting the hand that feeds him MORE is betting control of the upper chamber on the argument that Republicans know how to govern.
The six AP-1000 reactors would be built in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, after the original site proposed for the multi-billion-dollar project, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat, faced local opposition. The breakthrough comes ahead of a June 7-8 visit by Modi to Washington, where he will be hosted by President Barack Obama for a final summit before the U.S. presidential election in November, and will address both houses of Congress.
After the political convention confetti is swept away, a more sobering tradition of the presidential election begins: The regular, top-secret intelligence briefings for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. Started by President Harry S. Truman, the briefings are designed to get the candidates, before they walk into the Oval Office, up to speed on problems around the globe.
Donald Trump could not have picked a better opponent than Hillary Clinton . Riding a national anti-establishment wave, he dispatched a host of establishment Republicans and now faces America's quintessential establishment politician.
Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by months, even years, in using fast-evolving digital campaigning to win over voters, data specialists working with the GOP say. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has dismissed the science that defines 21st century political campaigns, a tool that President Barack Obama used effectively in PHILADELPHIA - Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by months, even years, in using fast-evolving digital campaigning to win over voters, data specialists working with the GOP say.
For years we've been told the reason there are so many negative campaign attack ads is simple - because they work. That makes sense when candidates and campaigns spend hundreds of millions of dollars on such ads, mostly 30-second television commercials.
There are signs that the "ostrich effect" is spreading inside the halls of Congress, where Senate Republicans running for re-election in tight races are putting distance between themselves and Donald Trump - with some wary of even mentioning his name. While rank-and-file voters are lining up behind Mr. Trump , some conservative pundits, party leaders and members of Congress just aren't there, saying they can't square the billionaire businessman's controversial rhetoric and personal attacks on the campaign trail.
Tim Canova, in a blue shirt, joins Verizon protesters on May 25 in Pembroke Pines, Fla. The little-known law professor is challenging Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in August's primary Tim Canova was driving from a rally against money in politics to a protest against chemical giant Monsanto this month when his spokeswoman called to tell him that Sen. Bernie Sanders had just gone on CNN and endorsed his long-shot primary challenge against the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson faced off against his four main rivals on the debate stage on Saturday night, earning some of the night's loudest cheers and boos as he tried to sell his viability in the general election without alienating his party's more hardcore members. When asked whether it was wrong for the United States to intervene in WWI? In WWII? Johnson's entire answer was "I don't know."
I don't know what it is about Republican voters this year but it's deeply troubling. That goes double for Americans generally as Bernie Sanders's campaign continues to roll on despite little chance of replacing Hillary Clinton as this year's Democratic nominee.
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the front-runner for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, faced an uptick in criticism Saturday at the party's national convention. nominee in 2012, has been on the receiving end of attacks for his vice presidential pick, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld.
Trump, who sailed through the Republican primaries using unconventional campaign rallies and Twitter messages, has indicated that he sees little use for popular data analytics tools to help target specific voters. "Big data" could play a huge role in the 2016 US election, even if Donald Trump doesn't think so.
Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said Saturday that white middle-class Americans have become so disenfranchised that many are looking to Donald Trump as African Americans did to Barack Obama in 2008 - "with hope." "I think, culturally, they're under assault," Buchanan, former aide to Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, told Michael Smerconish on CNN.
With the Libertarian Party picking its nominee this weekend, and with Democrats and Republicans having all but chosen their respective nominees already, it's as good a time as any to chew on some of the key food-policy issues candidates should be discussing as we inch toward the general election in November. In that spirit, here are nine key issues I'd like to see the presidential candidates discuss this year.
After meeting with President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court choice Thursday, Sen. Orrin Hatch remained steadfast that the Senate should wait until after the November election to consider a nominee. The Utah Republican said he sat down with Merrick Garland as a friend and out of respect for his position as a distinguished federal judge.
Hillary Clinton stops for a selfie with a supporter following a Women for Hillary Town Hall meeting in New York City. During a recent speech before the National Rifle Association, Donald Trump was explicit about the voters he's reaching out to: "I will say, my poll numbers with men are through the roof, but I like women more than men.
When a reporter called him Tuesday night for comment on his unexpected Republican runoff victory over State Board of Education hopeful Mary Lou Bruner, the 45-year-old Lufkin school board president asked whether it was true. "I didn't want to be the one to call it," said the chiropractor and father of three, who declined to criticize Bruner, an East Texas Tea Party activist and retired schoolteacher who drew national attention for bizarre and bigoted social media posts.
As the head of New Mexico's free-market think tank I'd like to offer my own thoughts on Johnson's tenure. I'd also like to refute some of what Mr. Spiller has to say in his critique.
The area with the highest per capita rate of members serving in the armed forces can't vote in the presidential election. That distinction belongs to American Samoa, one of seven U.S. territories represented at the Democratic National Convention that can cast ballots in the primary but not in November.