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Officers with Broward County Mosquito Control make daily inspections and respond to residents' complaints. Florida health officials said they are investigating two more mysterious cases of Zika infection that do not appear to be directly related to travel, bringing the ... more > Evidence that mosquitoes have begun to spread the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland is setting off alarm bells among Florida's leaders and reviving partisan bickering over who is to blame for a lack of congressional action to confront the disease.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on her campaign bus after visiting Imani Temple Ministries in Cleveland, Sunday, July 31, 2016. Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine are on a three day bus tour through the rust belt.
In this June 14, 2016 file photo, eight of the 11 candidates for Washington lieutenant governor take part in a debate in Spokane, Wash. From left, Marty McClendon, Paul Addis, Sen. Karen Fraser, D-Olympia, Sen. Steve Hobbs, D-Lake Stevens, Bill Penor, Javier Figueroa, Sen. Cyrus Habib, D-Bellevue, and Phillip Yin, all stand at their podiums.
To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the U.S. president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination. Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and cannot be trusted, while the Democratic Party convention was portrayed as further proof that American democracy is a sham.
LEXINGTON, Ky. >> Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite known as an anti-debt crusader, has some leftover business to deal with from his failed presidential campaign - more than $300,000 in unpaid bills.
As they come of age and register to vote, Millennials - that enormous generation born since 1981-are surging so fast they're on the verge of overtaking the Baby Boomer behemoth as a share of the California electorate. And new evidence confirms that, so far at least, the GOP is losing them.
Cyber security experts and US officials have said they believed Russia engineered the release of the emails to influence the Nov. 8 US presidential election. WASHINGTON - US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she accused Republican contender Donald Trump of showing support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
People will look back on this era in our history to see what was known about Donald Trump while Americans were deciding whether to choose him as president. Here's a running chronicle from James Fallows on the evidence available to voters as they make their choice, and of how Trump has broken the norms that applied to previous major-party candidates.
From a luxury hotel on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, some of the nation's most powerful Republican donors are rebelling against Donald Trump. Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, host of the exclusive weekend retreat, did not mention Trump by name as warned that political leaders are giving "frightening" answers to America's challenges.
With 100 days left before the fall presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign bus wound its way through Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Republican Donald Trump responded to criticism from the bereaved father of a Muslim Army captain. Khizr Khan said in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week that Trump has "sacrificed nothing and no one" for his country.
A crowd packed into a hot gymnasium at Youngstown's East High School Saturday night, waiting to hear from the first woman nominated by a major political party to run for President of the United States. They waited longer than expected to see Hillary Clinton and her running mate Senator Tim Kaine who took to the stage two hours and fifteen minutes after the program was scheduled to begin.
As a solid-blue state in recent elections, Connecticut is not likely a battleground in the 2016 presidential campaign now getting underway in earnest. But there is enough uncertainty and ferment among voters for the political world to take it seriously.
In a week filled with stirring speeches and standout moments at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, picking the biggest was easy for Sen. Don Davis, D-Greene, a delegate to the event. Toward the end of the call from each state, Vermont Senator and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders moved to suspend the rules and move forward with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the official party nominee.
At Donald Trump's Republican convention, America was a nation spiraling into chaos and economic ruin. Immigrants were cast as criminals, or in some cases, potential terrorists.
Hillary Clinton, standing on a metal working factory floor here in Western Pennsylvania, tried to cut into Donald Trump's grip on white, working class voters by casting herself -- not the businessman-turned-Republican nominee -- as 2016's change candidate. Clinton, surrounded by factory equipment and spooled iron, attacked Trump's business record and argued that the more people listen to the Republican nominee talk, the more they realize "he is not offering real change, he is offering empty promises."
"Climate change is real," they say. So what? Gravity and sunrise are also real. That doesn't mean we cause them or we would be better off without them.
Former Orange County Democratic Chairman Jonathan Jacobson gushed about the Democratic National Convention on Friday as he returned from it, calling it the most successful of the 11 presidential conventions he's attended in spite of the sharp party split that carried from the primary season into the four-day gala in Philadelphia. Jacobson, who was a delegate for Hillary Clinton, praised the acceptance speech she had given the previous night, saying Clinton had laid out a positive message while establishing a “clear contrast” with Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
Two officials familiar with the investigation into the crash in Texas of a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people say it was operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides. The hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture Saturday morning near Lockhart, which is about 30 miles south of Austin.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center right, accompanied by Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., center left, speaks at an event at Johnstown Wire Technologies in Johnstown, Pa., Saturday, July 30, 2016. Clinton and Kaine are on a three day bus tour through the rust belt.