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A survey released Wednesday found that Hillary Clinton is better liked than Donald Trump in China, where the U.S. presidential election - and the criticisms both candidates have made of Chinese policy - have generated intense attention. Clinton was seen favorably by 37 percent of respondents in a survey in mainland China conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center, while just 22 percent saw Trump favorably.
DePaul University in Chicago may be the "worst school for free speech in the country," according to an aggressive attack levied against it Monday by a campus civil liberties group. The accusations against DePaul come from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education , a leading advocate for free speech on campus.
Canadian diplomats are fanning out across the United States to talk up the benefits of trade with state and local leaders and counter what senior officials see as a worrying mood of protectionism swirling through the U.S. election campaign. Amid voter anger about the supposed harm done by international trade deals, both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton have talked about altering the three-nation North American Free Trade Agreement.
Mainstream media would have most of us believe that the current struggle at Standing Rock, North Dakota is all about clean water - that its only focus is stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline from running through Indigenous reservation land. And, yes, it is about these things.
In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Sen. Mile Lee, R-Utah, right, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Our hope was to catch rats in various iconic locations around New York-a park, a subway station, midtown-and fit them with tracking collars that could capture the rhythms of city life from the rats' perspective. We dreamed of eventually giving them tiny GoPros and microphones, of visualizing days lived near the third rail or under the watch of a red-tailed hawk.
Sen. Nelson: Senate reaches deal on Zika Other items on agenda had impeded progress on funding Check out this story on floridatoday.com: http://on.flatoday.com/2cznoQ4 WASHINGTON - The Senate appears to have reached a deal on Zika funding, but the broader spending bill it's attached to remains hung up on other issues that lawmakers hope to iron out by Tuesday. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., announced the breakthrough on the Senate floor Monday, referring to a deal that would give the Obama administration an additional $1.1 billion to pay for vaccine development, mosquito control and testing kits.
15, 2016, in New York. . Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives at a rally at University of North Carolina, in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, Sept.
Melania Trump released a letter Wednesday from an immigration attorney that provided more detail on what she said was her legal pathway to U.S. citizenship. But the Slovenian-born wife of the GOP presidential nominee did not publish any part of her immigration file - official documents that would put to rest questions about whether she followed immigration law.
As Americans reflect and pay tribute every year on September 11, an unusual ad often resurfaces - a Budweiser commercial that aired just one time. In 2002, the beer brand debuted a one-minute commercial showing the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales traveling to New York City and bowing before the lower Manhattan skyline as a sign of respect.
Washington, Sep 12 : The video of a buckling and stumbling Hillary Clinton lurching into the arms of her security staff at Ground Zero in New York may increase pressure on the Democratic presidential candidate to release her detailed medical records, US media reported today. The incident, which occurred after months of questions about her health from her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, and his campaign, is likely to increase pressure on Clinton to address the issue and release detailed medical records, which the 68-year-old former secretary of state has so far declined to do, The New York Times said.
Megan Tobin, of Bellevue, Ohio protests on the grounds of the North Dakota state capitol Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 in Bismarck, N.D. The federal government stepped into the fight over the Dakota Access oil pipeline Friday, ordering work to stop on one segment of the project in North Dakota and asking the Texas-based company building it to "voluntarily pause" action on a wider span that an American Indian tribe says holds sacred artifacts.
A powerful California lawmaker wants Congress to consider moving U.S. personnel and military equipment out of Turkey into other Middle Eastern countries in the wake of an attempted coup in Turkey in July. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican chair of a House subcommittee on emerging threats, said the relationship between Turkey and the United States had changed over the past decade and that Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could no longer be counted on as an ally.
Whenever you see a statement from the Democratic Party of Illinois, you can feel supremely confident that House Speaker Michael Madigan, the party's longtime chairman, approves of the sentiment. And the same goes for the Illinois Republican Party and Gov. Bruce Rauner, who accounts for 95 percent of the party's total fundraising since January 1st.
Foreign ministry official says Washington turned down Beijing's proposal to provide rolling red-carpet stairway for US leader when he arrived at Hangzhou airport for G20 summit It was Washington's decision to have US President Barack Obama disembark his plane from a small bare metal stairway instead of the usual rolling red-carpet staircase that state leaders get, a Chinese foreign ministry official has revealed. Speculations have been flying about whether China was deliberately snubbing Obama since media reports on Saturday showed the US leader exiting the Air Force One through the small stairway.
Amtrak's new Acela trains scheduled to hit the tracks in 2021 are expected to be faster than the current aging fleet and will run more frequently. Vice President Joe Biden announced the upgrade of Amtrak's trains, tracks and platforms along the Northeast Corridor which will be paid for with part of a $2.45 billion loan from the U.S. government, said the Boston Globe .
Donald Trump is traveling to Mexico Wednesday to meet with the country's president just hours before he is set to deliver a speech focused on immigration policy. "I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow," the Republican presidential nominee tweeted Tuesday.
In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.