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FILE -- In this Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, file photo, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces gather ahead of an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq. Iraqi forces appear poised to... .
A local Republican Party office in North Carolina was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to "Nazi Republicans" on a nearby wall, authorities said Sunday. A local Republican Party office in North Carolina was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to "Nazi Republicans" on a nearby wall, authorities said Sunday.
Iraqi forces appear poised to... . File -- In this Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 file photo, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces gather ahead of an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq.
Fed up with paltry pensions and benefits, China's v... . FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 file photo, protesters in green fatigues gather outside the Chinese Ministry of National Defense to protest in Beijing.
In this photo taken Kathryn Ferro with Americans for Prosperity, accompanied by Stephen McGee, left, speaks with a voter in Bensalem, Pa. The Republican door-knockers are busy selling Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, and they never mention Donald Trump.
Sen. Pat Toomey said he hoped he could be persuaded to be an "enthusiastic supporter." A new poll shows Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey beating Democratic challenger Katie McGinty despite his struggles with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Pat Toomey's firm fiscal principles made him a darling of the right in his 2010 U.S. Senate victory and quickly raised his profile in Washington. Democratic challenger Katie McGinty spent last week blasting Toomey for his opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that fined Wells Fargo $100 million for a scam affecting some two million consumer accounts.
After more three decades of decline, ticket splitting voters appear ready for a comeback. Officials in both parties hope the unpopularity of their presidential candidate won't depress votes for their other candidates on the ballot.
"Hi! How's everybody doin'?" McGinty said, as she entered the Western Learning Center, an early childhood program for local families. McGinty stopped here Tuesday to tout her economic agenda with a small group of local parents, but first, it was story time.
Katie McGinty, Pennsylvania's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, says the United States should never pay ransoms for prisoners, but she's not criticizing the Obama administration's $400 million cash delivery to Iran seven months ago. McGinty said Friday that she expects "further facts" will come out about the payment and she still stands by President Barack Obama's nuclear accord with Iran.
Republican Sens. Marco Rubio, of Florida, and Pat Toomey, of Pennsylvania, are facing Democratic challengers in races that are too close to call, while Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is ahead in his race by 9 percent, a new Quinnipiac University Swing State poll released Thursday shows. Florida: Rubio, 48 percent; challenger Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, 45 percent.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Endangered Sen. Pat Toomey is banking on Pennsylvania voters backing him in November even if they oppose fellow Republican Donald Trump, a ticket-splitting strategy that may help determine whether the GOP can hang on to its Senate majority this election year. "Pennsylvania voters are really quite sophisticated and they know for sure that Donald Trump is in a category unto himself," Toomey told reporters on a conference call Friday.
Campaign 2016: Toomey banking on split-ticket voting The Pennsylvania Republican hopes voters turned off by Donald Trump will still support his Senate reelection bid. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://on-ydr.co/2aMxkW3 In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., is among the Republicans not only distancing themselves from Donald Trump, they're making a point of not campaigning with him. When Trump was in Pennsylvania last week, Toomey was nowhere to be found.
The Hillary Clinton campaign has pushed back by one half hour, the time at which the presidential candidate and her running mate will speak in Youngstown tonight. Campaign officials now say that Clinton and vice-presidential hopeful Tim Kaine are scheduled to speak at East High School at 8:15 p.m., instead of 7:45 p.m., as originally announced.
We've been following the campaign ad blitz in the race for Pennsylvania's junior senate seat pretty closely. There was the pro-Sen. Pat Toomey ad from a conservative independent group with an atrocious depiction of a cheesesteak, and there was the anti-Toomey ad from a liberal group that had a litter box in it for some reason.
Public safety issues including terrorism, illegal immigration and gun violence are shaping Pennsylvania'a closely watched U.S. Senate race. Republican incumbent Pat Toomey and his Democratic challenger Katie McGinty also are striving to show unity with police in response to the killings of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania says he likes Donald Trump's selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as a running mate, even though Toomey still has concerns about Trump as the GOP's presidential standard bearer. Toomey told The Associated Press on July 15 that Pence is a great guy.
The Senate has blocked a measure that would bar federal funds from sanctuary cities, a contentious election-year vote on immigration . The vote was 53 to 44, shy of the 60 votes required to move to a final vote on the legislation.