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Nevada candidates Joe Heck and Catherine Cortez Masto faced off in a feisty debate as they seek the seat held by retiring Sen. Harry Reid. The wide-ranging debate broadcast Friday is the only scheduled TV matchup between the candidates, whose race is considered a tossup and could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stopped in Los Angeles Friday to call on his supporters to get behind a California ballot initiative that proposes a way to decrease prescription drug costs in the Golden State. Hundreds of nurses, members of AARP and his supporters gathered at a rally outside the American Federation of Musicians Hall in Hollywood for what they hoped to hear and missed from the U.S. Senator from Vermont: a charged, heated speech on why supporting Proposition 61 was the beginning of a revolution against big drug companies.
El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn will have the campaign cash necessary to make a push to unseat Democrat Michael Bennet in the U.S. Senate the final month of his campaign. In the campaign finance reports due to the Federal Election Commission Saturday, Glenn's campaign said he would report collecting nearly $2.8 million over the past three months, with $1.9 million left to spend before the Nov. 8 election.
Two more women came forward on Friday to accuse Donald Trump of unwanted sexual touching, including a former contestant from a reality show that starred the Republican presidential nominee. The latest accounts come after several women reported in recent days that Trump groped or kissed them without their consent.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold are preparing for the first of two televised debates in their tightening race. When they first shared a debate stage six years ago, Feingold came in as the more experienced, polished politician and Johnson the underdog newcomer.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Kristin Anderson was deep in conversation with acquaintances at a crowded Manhattan nightspot and did not notice the figure to her right on a red velvet couch - until, she recalls, his fingers slid under her miniskirt, moved up her inner thigh, and touched her vagina through her underwear. Anderson shoved the hand away, fled the couch and turned to take her first good look at the man who had touched her, she said.
A Connecticut-based Native American tribe is suing the state for at least $613 million in damages for land it says was taken from the tribal reservation more than a century ago. The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation said in the suit filed Thursday the state took 2,000 acres it was managing for the tribe without compensation between 1801 and 1918.
A sixth woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct since he denied ever grabbing and kissing women without their consent in Sunday's presidential debate. In an account published Friday in the Washington Post , Kristin Anderson alleged that Trump reached his hand under her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear while seated beside her at a crowded Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s.
Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman says a video showing Donald Trump boasting about groping women was the last straw for him and why he pulled his endorsement. Portman said in a debate with Democratic challenger Ted Strickland on Friday in Youngstown that those comments by the GOP nominee for president were offensive and demeaning to women.
One gauged responses among people told Obama's 'father was a Muslim and Obama grew up among Muslims in the world's most populous Islamic country' Longtime Clinton loyalist Paul Begala was included on the survey, and says it was meant to prepare for looming GOP attacks, not to muddy Obama A new email revealed as part of the Wikileaks dump appears to show Hillary Clinton allies testing a series of incendiary issues regarding President Obama - including his father's Muslim faith. The poll, titled 'McCain survey,' apparently was gleaned from a hack of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta, who is copied on the email chain.
Wells Fargo's earnings slipped in the third quarter, the bank said Friday, as the banking giant started dealing with the aftermath of a sales practices scandal that has consumed it in recent weeks. Wells said it earned $5.6 billion, or $1.03 per share, compared with $5.8 billion, or $1.05 per share, in the same period a year earlier.
Donald Trump contends he doesn't know and never even met some of the women accusing him of sexual assault, and his running mate said Friday the campaign is working on producing evidence that the claims are false. Trump himself has called his accusers "horrible liars" and said he will prove the allegations aren't true, but Hillary Clinton and ally Michelle Obama say Americans are learning more about Trump's unacceptable behavior every day.
The independent expenditure group that helped Republicans overtake the Louisiana Legislature under the leadership of outgoing U.S. Sen. David Vitter has been reborn. More than a dozen of the original board members from the Louisiana Committee For A Republican Majority have been reenlisted and collectively have pledged $1.5 million to spend on the 2019 election cycle.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence speaks at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence speaks at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016.
WASHINGTON - New Jersey's congressional delegation on Friday urged the U.S. Transportation Department to provide NJ Transit with the $10 million it requested to help install an automatic speed control system . All 14 members signed the letter at the behest of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez , the top Democrat on the Senate subcommittee that oversees public transportation.
"I'm so angry at the Republicans," he says, eyes slitted in a mocking grimace. He's riffing off the leaked email that shows that allies of Hillary Clinton gave her a question in advance of a town hall broadcast by CNN in March.
Melania Trump threatened People Magazine and a former staff reporter with legal action over "false and completely fictionalized" statements in the writer's account of Donald Trump forcing himself on her during a 2005 interview. The Republican presidential candidate's wife denied that she encountered or conversed with writer Natasha Stoynoff in New York, tweeting a letter from her lawyer demanding a "prominent retraction and apology" of certain statements in the article, and threatening that Melania would otherwise "consider her legal options."
New York, Oct 14 : The Committee to Protect Journalists has declared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a threat to press freedoms. "Donald Trump, through his words and actions as a candidate for president of the US, has consistently betrayed First Amendment values," CPJ's board chairwoman Sandra Mims Rowe said.
A national police organization's endorsement of Donald Trump has exposed a divide within the ranks of law enforcement: Can they support someone who calls himself the law-and-order candidate but was caught on tape bragging about sexually predatory behavior toward women? And what about Trump antagonizing the very minority communities that police agencies need to win over amid turmoil over police shootings of unarmed black men? Last month, the national Fraternal Order of Police endorsed the New York businessman, saying he's the one candidate who takes time to understand the issues facing law enforcement. Now, some officers - particularly African-Americans - are questioning whether Trump is worthy of the endorsement.
As Donald Trump jags across the country, battling an onslaught of sexual misconduct allegations, his party's opposition and the media, Clinton has stepped cautiously on the campaign trail. She rarely makes news or veers from her script.