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U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton stands with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, after accepting the nomination on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 28, 2016. The Republican National Committee asked the charity of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's family on Monday to produce all correspondence its staff had with the U.S. State Department while Clinton served as America's most senior diplomat.
In his speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump made six references to the conflict in Syria , pointing to the war-ravaged nation as a source of much of the world's turmoil, particularly immigration and extremism. The conflict in Syria remains a major conundrum for both President Barack Obama and Clinton , his former secretary of state.
" 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. The money was sent to Iran on Jan. 17, the same day Tehran agreed to release the prisoners.
This week, President Obama called on Republicans in Congress to take action and vote to fund the Administration's response to the Zika virus. In February, Obama asked Congress to fund emergency resources, including mosquito control, fast-tracking diagnostics tests and vaccines, tracking the spread of the virus, and monitoring women and babies with Zika.
Henry Fonda as a dishy "Young Mr. Lincoln" hanging out with Marjorie Weaver's Mary Todd notwithstanding, first dates for future occupants of the Oval Office may not seem like ideal romantic movie material. But "Southside With You" shows how and why it can be done.
With the hourglass running out for his administration, President Barack Obama's health care law is struggling in many parts of the country. Double-digit premium increases and exits by big-name insurers have caused some to wonder whether "Obamacare" will go down as a failed experiment.
Barack Obama's relative inaction in the Middle East will shape - and, perhaps, taint - his legacy, an ironic twist to a presidency conceived in part by his own criticism of his predecessor's military overreach in the region. The outgoing commander in chief opted against enforcing his own "red line" against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
VIENTIANE, Aug 28 The secretive communist government of Laos, a country with a population of less than 7 million, rarely causes a ripple on the diplomatic circuit. And yet its sleepy capital will spring to life next week when global leaders arrive for an Asian summit.
In this May 2 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens to Dr. Christopher Beckett, CEO of Williamson Health and Wellness Center during a tour an exam room of the facility in Williamson, W.Va.
Spendthrift and incompetent government has turned Illinois into a basket case. Barack Obama's adopted state ranks 47th in the nation in fiscal health ; and, as the Huffington Post reported in March, it's dead last in how much it leaves in the pockets of middle-class taxpayers.
Supporters of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took a week's worth of attack lines to the Sunday shows, arguing about the propriety of the Clinton Foundation and Trump's appeals to African-American voters. Defending Trump's claim that Clinton is a "bigot," GOP chairman Reince Priebus argued that Clinton at the least has taken the black vote for granted.
In this April 23, 2016 file picture a man walking on stilts and dressed like the Statue of Liberty attends a protest against the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, ahead of the visit of United States President Barack Obama in Hannover, Germany. Germany's economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said Sunday Aug. 28, 2016 that free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed, citing lack of progress on any of the major chapters of the long-running negotiations.
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.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with residents as he tours a flood-affected area in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday, August 23. The Red Cross said the catastrophic flooding is the worst to hit the state since Hurricane Sandy four years ago. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump meets with the Republican Leadership Initiative at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday, August 25. To his right is former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.
President Barack Obama took a trip to Louisiana in the midst of the recent flood crisis. Louisiana has had history of some of the nation's worst disasters over the last 15 years and disaster strikes again with the recent flood in Baton Rouge, an estimated 146,156 homes, or 41.5 percent, were hurt by the flooding.
Writer-director Richard Tanne's feature film debut "Southside With You" views history through an unlikely, heart-shaped prism: the first date between Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. And yet Tanne's film is no mere First Couple valentine.
In her Aug. 17 letter "We can't let Clinton appoint judges," Dorothy Hunter pointed out that " Supreme Court justices a are nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, as stated in the U.S. Constitution." A partial solution would be for the Senate to do its duty and take up President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland, who holds the record for undergoing the longest refusal of the Senate to act on a Supreme Court nomination.