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Lawmakers returning to Washington after a seven-week break picked up right where they left off - feuding about legislation to battle the mosquito-borne Zika virus and deadlocked over the defense budget. A tightening presidential race and pitched warfare for control of the Senate this November promise to overshadow whatever Congress accomplishes in an election-shortened September session - which, for now, looks like little more than a temporary government-wide spending bill to prevent a shutdown at month's end, possibly linked to money to battle Zika.
It was more than a routine get-out-the-vote knock on the door when Iraq War veteran and Nevada Republican Party staffer Jon Staab asked Kenneth Olofson, a Vietnam veteran, if he'll be voting for Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Republican supporters of Donald Trump have opened a campaign office in the West Bank, in what they say is a first, hoping to recruit American-Israelis living in the settlements to vote for the Republican presidential candidate. A banner reading "Trump, the interest of Israel" in Hebrew marks the location of the makeshift headquarters, in a home in the northern West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron.
SEPTEMBER 05: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters on her campaign plane enroute to Iowa on September 5, 2016. Hillary Clinton is kicking off a Labor Day campaign swing to Ohio and Iowa on a new campaign plane.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio lost his reelection bid in a Florida poll published by Democratic polling firm Civis Polling Tuesday. Democratic nominee Patrick Murphy's Senate campaign paid for and ordered the poll, but the results show Murphy with only a one-point lead - 45 percent to Rubio's 44 percent.
With his “what the hell do you have to lose?” line, his talk of softening his stance on immigrants residing in the country illegally, his trip to Mexico City to express respect for the Mexican people, and his ventures into African-American communities in two U.S. cities, he and his campaign strategists have been working to target minority voters. “In a word, no,” said Hughey Newsome, a black conservative leader and Washington-based business consultant.
A conservative limited-government group is actively campaigning against Democratic nominee Deborah Ross in North Carolina's U.S. Senate race. Americans for Prosperity North Carolina announced Tuesday it would send out more than 500,000 mailers and emphasize its opposition to Ross in its field activities.
5, 2016. . Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center left, waves as he walks with vice presidential candidate Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., center right, during a visit to the Canfield Fair, Monday, Sept.
Democratic firebrand Sen. Elizabeth Warren questioned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's health at a Labor Day event on Monday when she essentially told him to look in a mirror and wondered what he was hiding. "I just don't get this," Warren said, disgusted by the right-wing conspiracies that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is sick and dying.
Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Sen. Tim Kaine, arrives to speak at the 11th Congressional District Labor Day festival at Luke Easter Park in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
Congress will have a little more than four weeks in session beginning Tuesday before the November election, or around 20 days. Lawmakers are scheduled to leave town again in early October to return home and campaign.
A $90 million investment that runs against the trend of coal bankruptcies and mine closures should enable two new coal mines and related facilities to open in West Virginia and Virginia next year, coal developer... A $90 million investment that runs against the trend of coal bankruptcies and mine closures should enable two new coal mines and related facilities to open in West Virginia and Virginia next year, coal developer Ramaco... A shooter who gunned down airport screening officers three years ago at Los Angeles International Airport in a terrifying attack that sent frantic passengers running for their lives is scheduled to plead guilty... A shooter who gunned down airport screening officers three years ago at Los Angeles International Airport in a terrifying attack that sent frantic passengers running for their lives is scheduled to plead guilty Tuesday to... Firefighters have ... (more)
Heartbreak for Florida grandmother, 65, told to tear down her tree house paradise where she's lived with her pet racoon for 25 years 'He choked': Hillary and Bill Clinton gang up on Trump for 'causing a diplomatic incident' during Mexico trip and acting weak for not discussing his wall promise with country's president 'She doesn't have the energy': Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton was too tired to campaign properly and doesn't have the 'stamina to bring jobs back to America' The moment Ann Coulter leaves Australian TV host speechless after she calls a fallen US soldier's father a 'snarling Muslim' Pictured: High-flying female college student, 22, and teenage boy gunned down at New York West Indian carnival as officials consider canceling annual event Fifth suspect in fatal shooting of Governor Cuomo's aide at last year's J'Ouvert festival is arrested in California Johnny Manziel ... (more)
U.S. President Barack Obama said his country has had problems with cyber intrusions from Russia and other countries in the past, but aims to establish some norms of behavior rather than let the issue escalate as happened in arms races in the past. Obama's statement on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China, after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not refer specifically to a recent hack of the Democratic National Committee of the Democratic Party that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing.
Setting the stage on Labor Day for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign, Donald Trump softened his stance on immigration while Hillary Clinton blasted Russia for its suspected tampering in the U.S. electoral process. In a rare news conference aboard her new campaign plane, Clinton said she is concerned about "credible reports about Russian government interference in our elections."
In a new twist to his immigration proposals, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held out the possibility of legal status for millions of illegal immigrants, but only after many other border enforcement steps are taken. Trump, in remarks to a small group of reporters whom he invited on his plane for the first time since accepting his party's nomination, said parts of his hardline immigration speech last week in Phoenix had been misinterpreted and that he had in fact softened his position to some extent.
It's both unofficial and traditional to call Labor Day the beginning of the intense action in a general election year, and it still carries a shred of truth. The slates are set.
All choked up! Hillary Clinton is caught up in a marathon coughing fit and struggles to speak in Cleveland but tries to play it off as an 'allergic reaction' to Trump Driver, 20, who pulled up in an SUV and 'shot a 13-year-old girl dead and wounded her friend as they walked home from school' is arrested Johnny Manziel re-enrolls at Texas A&M University to major in recreation, parks and tourism as he claims he's 'trying to get back on track' Pictured: The high-flying female college student, 22, and teenage boy gunned down at New York West Indian carnival 'with reputation for violence' Siri set to control your home: Apple to launch app to take on Amazon and Google in the battle for the smart house Ahoy there! Jeff Williams tweets incredible panoramic video showing boats sailing down New York's Hudson River - as seen on a sunny day from space The final resting place of U576: German U-Boat ... (more)