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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.
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."
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 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."
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.
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.
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.
Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, speaks during a Nevada Democratic Party rally at the Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016.
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.
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.
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.
North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp gave Chelsea Clinton a Carson Wentz jersey during a campaign stop this week. As we've explained in these pages before, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky are Eagles fans.
At a town-hall campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday, Trump insisted Clinton wasn't actually prepping as much as she was getting credit for. "I said forget debate prep.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., left, speaks during a news conference as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., listens on June 3, 2016, in Doral, Fla. Rep. Carlos Curbelo had only been in Congress for a few months, and he was already facing a tough vote that he knew could exact political damage.
Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, speaks during a Nevada Democratic Party rally at the Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. FILE - In this July 6, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets striking workers outside the Trump Taj Mahal Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. On Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, the last vestige of Donald Trump will vanish from Atlantic City when the Trump Taj Mahal casino shuts down.
The Latest on the arrest of the CEO of adult classified ad portal Backpage.com and the raid of his Dallas offices : Cindy McCain says the arrest of Backpage.com's chief executive is a "huge game-changer" in efforts to crack down on the sex trafficking of young girls and boys. The wife of Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain has been leading efforts for several years to fight human trafficking.
The candidates, their aides, their surrogates, even some of their ads, went quiet Friday, as swing-state Florida was pounded by Hurricane Matthew, coastal residents hunkered down in their homes and the 15 months of constant political chatter almost disappeared. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton kept far away from the storm at their home bases in New York.