AP Exclusive: Job hunt substantial part of Bayha s last year

Evan Bayh spent substantial time during his last year in the Senate searching for a job in the private sector, even as he cast votes on issues of interest to his future corporate bosses, according to the former Indiana lawmaker's 2010 schedule, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press. The Democrat held more than four dozen meetings and phone calls with head hunters and future corporate employers over the months, beginning just days after announcing his surprise retirement from the Senate on Feb. 15, 2010, through December of that year as his term came to an end.

Ryan a sickeneda by Trumpa s comments; Kirk says quit race

Republicans swiftly condemned Donald Trump after the revelations of crude comments he made about women, captured in a 2005 tape and made public Friday. Here is some of the reaction: "No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner.

This is what would happen if Donald Trump quit the…

After a 2005 video of Donald Trump making salacious comments about women surfaced on Friday, some prominent Republicans are calling on their nominee to drop out of the race. In August, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board published a scathing op-ed calling on Trump to mature his campaign style or hand the nomination to his running mate, Mike Pence.

John McCain blasts Trump: ‘There are no excuses’ for his…

Sen. John McCain blasted Donald Trump on Friday after a 2005 audio and video clip surfaced that showed the Republican presidential nominee making vulgar comments about women. "There are no excuses for Donald Trump's offensive and demeaning comments," the Republican senator from Arizona said in a statement.

a Gop senator and a congressman are calling on Donald Trump to…

Republican Sen. Mark Kirk said Donald Trump should drop out of the presidential race, urging the GOP to enact rules for "emergency replacement," after lewd audio of the Republican presidential nominee was leaked on Friday. The Illinois senator tweeted amid a whirlwind of prominent Republicans denouncing Trump - including 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, RNC chairman Tweet Embed: Donald Trump should resign as the Republican nominee for president, he brags about sexuality harassing women.

The Latest: Utah’s Lee calls on Trump to quit after apology

Utah Sen. Mike Lee is the latest Republican member of Congress to call on Donald Trump to drop out of the race for president. Lee is responding to Trump's apology for making crude comments about women and his defiant aassertion that those remarks from 2005 are a "distraction from the important issues we're facing today."

Sue Lani Madsen: In the gritty details of growth management, local…

The Growth Management Act was passed in 1990 to address development pressures on farmland, the challenge of building schools to match development, and growing traffic congestion. It hasn't delivered, according to many of those testifying at a House Local Government Committee work session in Olympia on September 20th.

The Latest: Backpage attorney blasts raid, CEO’s arrest

The Latest on the arrest of the CEO of adult classified ad portal Backpage.com and the raid of his Dallas offices : The attorney for Backpage.com is blasting the raid on the online classified ad portal's Dallas headquarters and the arrest of chief executive Carl Ferrer as "an election year stunt" on the part of the California attorney general and "not a good-faith action by law enforcement." In a statement issued Friday, Backpage general counsel Liz McDougall said "the actions of the California and Texas attorneys general are flatly illegal" and "ignore the holdings of numerous federal courts that the First Amendment protects the ads on Backpage.com."

Can Trump survive his boasting about groping women because hea s a star?

Donald Trump has insulted a war hero, criticized the family of a fallen soldier, mocked a disabled reporter and remained in the game. But the appearance Friday of a video in which he brags crudely about making sexual advances to a married woman is raising questions once again: Has Donald Trump gone too far? And could this be the one that sinks his presidential bid? Possibly not, some analysts suggested, given the Republican presidential nominee's already well-documented history of making remarks critical of women.

Trump caught on video making lewd, crude remarks about women

In this Oct. 6, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall in Sandown, N.H. Russia's government lodged a formal complaint last month with the United Nations over a top U.N. official's condemnations of Trump and some European politicians, diplomats told The Associated Press, an intervention that underscores the unusual links between the Republican presidential nominee and the Kremlin. There is no evidence Trump sought Russia's assistance, or was even aware of the criticism by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.

The Latest: Clinton campaign won’t confirm leaked emails

Hillary Clinton's campaign says it will not confirm the authenticity of emails from campaign co-chairman John Podesta that WikiLeaks released Friday. The campaign is blaming the intrusion on Russian state actors seeking to help rival Donald Trump.

Wikileaks releases what appear to be transcripts of Hillary Clinton’s private speeches

Transcripts of Hillary Clinton's private speeches appeared to be included in a trove of thousands of emails released by Wikileaks on Friday. The transcripts, which appear to have been gleaned from speeches given to some Wall Street firms, reveal Clinton's remarks on a number of topics that, at times, appear to be both pro-markets and pro-consumer.

Lawyer: Backpage.com CEO will fight sex trafficking charges

Handcuffed and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, the chief executive of an internet site authorities accuse of being "a hub for the illegal sex trade" waived extradition to California today, and his attorney vowed to fight the "trumped up" sex trafficking and money laundering charges he faces. Backpage.com Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer was arrested Thursday and his Dallas headquarters was raided after officials in California accused him of felony pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping.

David Letterman: Trump needs an appointment with a psychiatrist

In his 33 years as a late-night entertainer, David Letterman was both a host and an antagonist to politicians of every stripe. He took a centrist approach to NBC's Late Night and at CBS' Late Show , holding wide-ranging conversations with President Bill Clinton or Senator John McCain on a given evening, then bringing the satirical hammer down on them the following night.

Latest bump in a rocky Ryan-Trump relationship

It's long been clear that House Speaker Paul Ryan is, shall we say, not wholly comfortable with Donald Trump's presidential candidacy. The announcement of Ryan's and Trump's first joint appearance of the campaign on Saturday in Wisconsin - just four weeks before the election - was simply the latest reminder.

Scariest haunted house this election year? ‘Doomocracy’

Artist Pedro Reyes thinks American politics are pretty darn terrifying, especially this election year, and he wants to scare the wits out of you with his "Doomocracy" exhibition. Alternately called "The Haunted House of Political Horrors This Oct. 4, 2016 photo provided by Creative Time shows a scene from a satirical performance-based installation called "Doomocracy" or "The Haunted House of Political Horrors," in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Vermont Congressman Says He Represents ‘Sanders Wing’ of GOP

Welch won both the Democratic and Republican nominations in August for re-election this year to a sixth term, and faces a little known candidate in November from the small Liberty Union political party. Winning both major party nominations is rare but not unheard of.