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WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next month will become the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. In November, she could become the first female occupant of the White House, eight years after Americans elected their first black chief executive.
With judges poised Thursday to consider settlements that will leave Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers as independent contractors, two of the biggest names in the on-demand economy will avoid policy changes that would force them to rethink their business models. Uber and Lyft can also keep using a play borrowed from the traditional economy by requiring drivers to take disputes to private arbitration rather than court.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley warned that the type of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump can lead to violence. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump should use a more civil tone while campaigning, warning that divisive rhetoric could ultimately lead to violence on par with the 2015 Charleston church massacre .
President Barack Obama has overseen six of the 10 most polarized political years on record, defined as the delta between Republicans and Democrats on the question of presidential job approval. Mr. Obama wants to "explode onto the scene," a White House source told CNN Wednesday, adding he's "chomping at the bit to get out and 'get people fired up'" and "knows his power" is to energize the Democratic base.
WASHINGTON - A close friend of Donald Trump has helped start a super PAC to support him, potentially giving the presumptive Republican presidential nominee his first big-donor help for the general election. Tom Barrack, a Los Angeles real estate investor, said in an interview with CNN on Thursday that the group has already received $32 million in financial commitments.
Scores of state workers, carrying signs and chanting "No layoffs,'' held a rally Thursday a few hundred yards away from where the Connecticut Democratic Party held its annual fundraising dinner. The Connecticut AFL-CIO, AFSCME Council 4 union members and their allies with D.U.E Justice - A Coalition for Democracy, Unity, and Equality - and others rallied, sang chants and encouraged passing cars to honk their horns in support outside the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
The Latest on House Speaker Paul Ryan's endorsement of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump : One of Donald Trump's top House backers is applauding Speaker Paul Ryan's decision to throw his support behind the presumptive GOP nominee. Congressman Chris Collins of New York says in a statement that Ryan's endorsement "reinforces the fact that Republicans are united in our fight to defeat Hillary Clinton."
Hillary Clinton presented a stark contrast Thursday between what she said are her own extensive qualifications to command American foreign policy and Donald Trump's reckless ignorance about national security. In an afternoon speech here in which she described Trump's ideas as "dangerously incoherent," Clinton offered a sharply worded preview of a general election argument that will frame her as a well-prepared commander in chief and Trump as unfit.
House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday, ending an extraordinary public split between the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee and the nation's highest-ranking Republican office holder. “I had friends wishing I wouldn't support him.
Clinton takes on Trump over U.S. foreign policy U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton will berate Republican Donald Trump for being too friendly with North Korea and too harsh on European allies in a foreign policy speech on Thursday aimed at portraying the billionaire businessman as unfit for the White House. The speech in San Diego comes as the former secretary of state seeks to shift her attention to the Nov. 8 presidential election against likely rival Trump and away from Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who is continuing his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination.
A coal miners' union influential in Appalachian Ohio is backing Republican Rob Portman over rival Ted Strickland in the closely watched contest for U.S. Senate. The announcement Thursday by the United Mine Workers of America's National Council of Coal Miners PAC comes as a political blow to Strickland.
In a speech in Elkhart, ., on Wednesday, Obama followed Hillary Clinton and bowed to a Bernie Sanders-led movement to expand Social Security. This is only the latest in a series of missed opportunities by the president.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continued their efforts to court California voters in a final push ahead of next week's primary election. After making what her campaign bills as a "major national security address," in San Diego Thursday, Clinton will head to a get-out-the-vote event in El Centro in Imperial County, and will then hold a meeting with community leaders in Perris in Riverside County.
Donald Trump's relationship with the media is entering a new phase, writes Jonathan Allen. Donald Trump has benefited more from his relationship with the media than any candidate in modern political history.
When one of Donald Trump's most outspoken Republican opponents proposed a little-known conservative writer as the long-awaited alternative to the party's presumptive nominee, the "Never Trump" movement, such as it was, appeared lifeless. The failure to draft a party star to wage an independent bid was considered the nail in the coffin.
The speech in San Diego comes as the former secretary of state seeks to shift her attention to the Nov. 8 presidential election against likely rival Trump, and away from Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who is continuing his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination. Trump has said he would sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program and has criticized the decades-old NATO alliance with mainly European nations as obsolete and too costly for the United States.
SolarCity workers install solar panels on a Denver home with Sen. Michael Bennet , center, in 2010. SolarCity announced Thursday that it will begin offering loans as an option for homeowners who want solar panels.
Six miles from the scenic beaches of south Maui sits a small, deserted island with a rich history and a big problem. Researchers say Hawaiians traveled to Kahoolawe Island as early as 400 A.D., and it's home to nearly 3,000 archaeological sites.