Wells Fargo Under Siege: Drops Sales Goals Tied to Bogus Account Scandal

Wells Fargo will stop setting the sales goals that bank employees say led to pressure to open millions of fake customer accounts. "We are eliminating product sales goals because we want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail bankers are always focused on the best interests of customers," CEO John Stumpf said in a statement.

Hillary: I Didn’t Think My Illness Was a Big Deal

In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Hillary Clinton said she told others at Sunday's 9/11 memorial, including Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., that she was ill but didn't make a public statement because "I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal." After she became ill at the event, her campaign disclosed her recent pneumonia diagnosis and said she was being treated with antibiotics.

Paul Ryan super PAC benefits from Trump worries

Republican donors worried Donald Trump's campaign is putting the House of Representatives in play are writing checks to the super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, fueling a record-breaking haul this cycle. "There is uncertainty at the top of the ticket and we have a significant group of donors who want to make sure that the House is a firewall," Mike Shields, president of the Congressional Leadership Fund, told CNN.

Trump says Clinton’s “deplorables” remark is disqualifying

Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton for her characterization that half of his supporters belonged in "a basket of deplorables," denouncing the comment as "an explicit attack on the American voter" and suggesting that it makes her unfit for the presidency. No stranger to making his own sweeping negative characterizations of large groups of people, Trump nonetheless deployed the remark Monday as the foundation for a new campaign theme.

Kaine’s many attacks fail to get Trump’s attention

Donald Trump hasn't let many insults slide this campaign season - except when they come from Hillary Clinton's running mate. The Republican presidential nominee has all but ignored the constant barrage of attacks from Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, who has assumed the traditional attack-dog role of a vice presidential candidate with gusto, but little notice.

Hillary Clinton

House Republicans are keeping up their attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails by calling for testimony the tech expert who set up her private server and representatives from the company that maintained the system. Bryan Pagliano, a former information resource management adviser at the State Department , is scheduled to appear Tuesday at a hearing before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Hillary Clinton’s smug ‘deplorables’ comment shows…

If you are one of the many military veterans, police officers, or legal gun owners who support Donald Trump for president, Hillary Clinton may call you something else: "deplorable." In one of the most stupid political comments in a political season in which ignorant comments seem to know no bounds, the Democratic nominee shot her own campaign in the foot when she shot off her mouth before introducing Barbra Streisand at an LGBT fundraiser in New York: "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Mrs. Clinton said.

Obama, McConnell strike hopeful tone on budget, Zika – Mon, 12 Sep 2016 PST

Striking a conciliatory tone after an Oval Office sitdown, President Barack Obama and the top Senate Republican declared themselves hopeful Monday that an agreement can be reached to keep the government running and to provide money to take care of the worsening Zika crisis. WASHINGTON - Striking a conciliatory tone after an Oval Office sitdown, President Barack Obama and the top Senate Republican declared themselves hopeful Monday that an agreement can be reached to keep the government running and to provide money to take care of the worsening Zika crisis.

Clinton scrambles to head off fallout from brutal weekend

Hillary Clinton's campaign is scrambling to head off lasting damage from her brutal weekend. Aides are promising to release more of her medical records following her bout of pneumonia and conceding they were too slow in providing information about her condition.

Kevin Bacon loves Baconfest invite, is sorry he can’t attend

Brattleboro wanted the actor to visit for its third annual Baconfest, a celebration of all things related to the fatty cured pork strips. But he tweeted his regrets on Monday, saying in a video that he won't be able to make it to Baconfest because he's filming in Vancouver.