Hillary Clinton to return to race with Thursday rally in North Carolina

Hillary Clinton plans to return to the campaign trail Thursday with a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, after taking three days off to recover from pneumonia, according to her campaign. The Democratic presidential nominee has been recuperating at her home in Chappaqua, New York, after suffering a medical episode Sunday in which she nearly collapsed as she was whisked out early from a 9/11 memorial event in Manhattan.

Dakota Access CEO: Company committed to finishing project

The memo to employees, which was also released to some media outlets, is the first time in months the company has provided significant details of the four-state, 1,172-mile project. It came the same day as a planned ``day of action'' in cities around the U.S. and in other countries, including a rally that drew hundreds in Washington to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders and others speak.

Leaked Colin Powell emails show loathing for Trump

In this Oct. 10, 2008, file photo, former Secretary of State Colin Powell is seen in Washington. Powell is defending himself following the release of a 2009 email exchange with Hillary Clinton, describing his use of a private, dial-up email account to carry out U.S. government business.

Airport plans ‘direct’ policy on staff flying

Officials at the state's largest airport want to put their money where their mouths are and encourage airport employees to take direct, nonstop flights when feasible. Ron Mathieu, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field, said in an interview that the proposed policy formalizes what airport staff members already have been doing on a limited basis -- though existing policy technically requires airport employees to take the least expensive flight when traveling on airport business.

Political risk for all in Trump-Clinton ‘deplorables’ debate

In this Sept. 8, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C. A war of words over Donald Trump's "deplorables" is intensifying as Republicans and Democrats fight to score political points over Hillary Clinton's charge that millions of the New York billionaire's supporters are racist, sexist and homophobic.

Kaine downplays presidential readiness amid Clinton illness

Tim Kaine 's role as Hillary Clinton 's vice presidential running mate means he'd be one heartbeat away from the presidency. Clinton's health scare, complete with a widely-viewed video of her stumbling and being supported by aides after abruptly leaving a 9/11 memorial service in New York City, makes that fact more relevant to some - and a bit awkward.

As Florida delegation unites on Zika funding, Gov. Rick Scott stirs up fight in Washington

Florida lawmakers made their most coordinated effort yet to call for urgent action to combat the Zika virus, but even as they stressed bipartisanship, politics were on display Tuesday, overshadowing the possibility of a breakthrough on funding. Less than a minute into a news conference demanding action, Republican Gov. Rick Scott lashed out at Sen. Bill Nelson for voting against a funding bill last week that Democrats say is an attack on Planned Parenthood.

Appeals court won’t toss charges against NJ Sen. Menendez

A federal appeals court won't dismiss corruption charges against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey. An attorney for the indicted Democrat had asked the full 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to review a three-judge panel's ruling allowing the case against him to move forward.

Lee urged Trump campaign to denounce David Duke

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was urged by a GOP senator Tuesday to use the word "deplorable" to describe white supremacist David Duke and to "denounce the alt-right movement." Pence, the governor of Indiana, made the rounds in the U.S. Senate with an eye on smoothing over frayed relations between Donald Trump and some conservative lawmakers.

GAO: America already lost its claim to the Internet

The Government Accountability Office said Tuesday it believed the Obama administration's proposed giveaway of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority could safely move forward without congressional approval, and said the United States essentially gave up ownership of the Internet years ago. Members of Congress had asked the GAO to assess whether IANA constituted property of the federal government, which would require congressional approval to transfer under Article IV of the Constitution.

Veterans advocates, lawmakers fight for protection in NDAA against less-than-honorable discharges

Veterans service organizations are pressuring lawmakers working on the National Defense Authorization Bill to include an amendment protecting servicemembers with mental illness from less-than-honorable discharges. Veterans advocates and lawmakers said Tuesday at a news conference outside the Capitol that about 22,000 veterans with mental illness have received less-than-honorable discharges, called "bad paper," since 2009.

Hillary Clinton has a body double, conspiracy theorists say

Idiots on the internet have solved all of the mysteries lingering from Hillary Clinton's health scare: She has a body double, of course. As questions continue over Clinton belatedly revealing her pneumonia diagnosis, a sizable-enough segment of the Web apparently believes there were two Hillarys roaming New York City on Sunday.

Obama: 2016 Campaign Is ‘a Little More Crazy Than Usual’

6... - As he campaigned alone for the first time this election cycle, President Obama said the rhetoric in this presidential campaign has been a little crazier than in previous years. "In election season you will often hear crazy stuff," the president said Tuesday as he campaigned solo for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia.

In Pennsylvania, Trump to propose childcare deduction tax break

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday will propose allowing families to deduct the cost of childcare expenses from income taxes, his campaign said, a move aimed at bolstering his support among women voters. Trump is to lay out the plan in an evening speech in the Philadelphia suburb of Aston, Pennsylvania, his latest attempt to construct a policy framework that he would use for governing if elected over Democrat Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8. Trump is to be introduced at the event by his daughter, Ivanka, who has championed the issue of childcare as an influential voice in his campaign.