Protests Outside Black Detroit Church Hosting Trump

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.

Vice presidential candidates and the outcome of the race

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.

Does Donald Trump want to also curb legal immigration?

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."

Obama takes troubled trade portfolio to AsiaTrip will promote…

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.

New York Magazine Writer: Conservatives Like ‘Highly Emotional’…

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.

Clinton tells FBI she could not recall all briefings on preserving documents

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.

Opinion: Trump, king of debt but not of taxes

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.

Senator to return campaign gift from EpiPen maker after hike

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 loses another round in its fight with Sen. Rob Portman

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.

FBI publishes notes on Clinton’s use of private email

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.

Obama’s Race Gambit

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.