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Police struggled to hold back protesters Saturday outside a Detroit church hosting a visit by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is on a charm offensive to allay skepticism of wary African American voters. "The devil's in the pulpit," shouted Wyoman Mitchell, one of about 150 protesters who charged police barricades outside the black Great Faith Ministries International church.
Political experts and historians have consistently chronicled the fact that vice presidential choices have no significant effect on the presidential race outcome. However, this has been a very unconventional presidential political year.
A South Carolina pastor who has been hitting the campaign trail for Donald Trump is coming under fire for misrepresenting his background in numerous ways. Trump is scheduled to visit an African-American church in Detroit on Saturday.
TRENTON - Much of the attention that Donald Trump 's long-awaited immigration speech received this week was focused on his promise to crack down hard on illegal immigration to the U.S. But there was another part of Wednesday's address that many may have overlooked: how Trump pledged to cut back on legal immigration, too. The Republican presidential nominee said it was time to establish a commission to "develop a new set of reforms" to keep "immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms" and "ensure assimilation."
President Barack Obama goes to Asia this week promoting a trade agenda that appears imperiled by anti-globalization sentiment at home and abroad that could undo years of negotiations. Tough comments recently from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and from two European leaders on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership all but signaled the delay and even possible death of both accords.
Shorter version of Brian Feldman's Wednesday article for New York magazine: Sure, Mark Zuckerberg's a genius, but he still hasn't come up with a foolproof way to keep Facebook from promoting right-wing propaganda. "Facebook's problem isn't that it suppresses 'conservative news' or allows 'fake news,'" wrote Feldman.
THUMBS UP: Good news for Minnesota on the health front came Friday from the Center for Disease Control. The state's adult obesity rate took a drop between 2014 and 2015.
Summary : The Florida Democratic Senate candidate vying for Marco Rubio's seat has been given full donations by two known Colombo crime members. Senator Marco Rubio's competition is getting help from known Colombo organized crime members.
Hillary Clinton, under questioning by federal investigators over whether she had been briefed on how to preserve government records as she was about to leave the State Department, said she had suffered a concussion, was working part-time and could not recall every briefing she received. Clinton, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, raised the health scare during her 3-1/2-hour interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department prosecutors on July 2, according to an FBI summary released on Friday.
Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presidential nominee, has been in the spotlight for years. From developing real estate to producing and starring in TV shows, see how he's shaped his empire.
A U.S. senator from New Hampshire says she's returning a campaign donation from the company that increased the price of an emergency allergy treatment drug from $50 to more than $600 for a two-pack. The Telegraph in Nashua reports Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services saying Mylan, the company that makes the EpiPen, isn't doing enough to "solve the problem" and hasn't said why it hiked the price.
Backpage.com, the classified-ad website accused by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of being complicit in child prostitution, failed today to get an appeals court to order Portman and his investigative committee to back off. The company has asserted a First Amendment right against interference with a publisher, and said its CEO, Carl Ferrer, was denied due-process rights.
Herdsman Denny Holz marks cows with chalk to see which ones are in heat at Eaglemill Farms, the DeJong family's 1,300-head dairy farm east of Lynden, Wash. Congress came up with a novel way to reduce the nation's milk supply in 1985, paying farmers $1.5 billion to slaughter their cows .
From left, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama participate in the 20th annual Tahoe Summit in Stateline, Nev., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.
Hillary Clinton told the FBI she relied on the judgments of her staff not to send emails containing classified information to the private email account she relied on as secretary of state, adding that she was unclear about a classification marking on official government documents. The revelation came Friday as the FBI, in a rare step, published scores of pages summarizing interviews with Clinton and her top aides from the recently closed criminal investigation into her use of a private email server in the basement her Chappaqua, New York, home.
In the heady atmosphere leading up to the 2008 presidential election, a messianic Senator Barack Obama proclaimed he was "five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." That transformation, echoed by Michelle Obama, was to change the conversation, change our traditions, change our history, and move the nation to a different place.
Republicans have a chance to build on their majorities and win a record number of governors' seats in 2016 . Democrats are doing everything they can to stop them.