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ADVANCE TO GO WITH RUSSIA US CLINTON FILE In this file photo taken on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her arrival at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia.
Mitt Romney, flanked by Donald Trump, speaks at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney. In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump blames Mitt Romney's 2012 loss to Barack Obama on Romney's decision to release his tax returns.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she questioned Republican rival Donald Trump's overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We know that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC and we know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released and we know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin, to support Putin," Clinton said in an interview with "Fox News Sunday."
Just eight years ago, the Democratic Party took the historic risk of nominating a little-known African-American, Barack Obama, for president. He won that year, then overcame stumbles and an economic slump to be returned comfortably four years later.
In their struggle for the upper hand on national security, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are emphasizing strikingly different themes - he as the bold and cunningly unpredictable strongman who will eliminate terrorism; she as the calm, conventional commander in chief who will manage all manner of crises. Terrorism is Trump's national security touchstone, and the Islamic State group is his target.
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.
Joe Biden, Tim Kaine and Barack Obama testified to her greatness and goodness and readiness to be president. And all saw in the Republican Convention in Cleveland a festival of darkness and dystopia.
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.
Basically, he's abandoned the great patriotic themes that used to fire up the GOP and he's allowed the Democrats to seize that ground. If you visited the two conventions this year you would have come away thinking that the Democrats are the more patriotic of the two parties - and the more culturally conservative.
The Mount Hood Community College Board of Directors has censured one of its members who had been pressured to step down after sharing an internet meme that depicted President Barack Obama in a noose. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that the board voted 6-1 Friday to publicly denounce Yellott's actions, which include making several remarks about "illegal immigrants" during a meeting and posting the photo of Obama in a noose on Facebook.
There was a thrill ride on Jewish Democratic social media Wednesday night when Bill Clinton was spotted at the Democratic National Convention sporting a button backing his wife in Hebrew. Robert Wexler, a former Democratic congressman, indulged in a little partisan kvelling when he appeared Thursday with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer on a panel.
Facebook Live has only been available to the masses since January, and in that time we've pretty much witnessed the full scope of humanity. We laughed along with "Chewbacca Mask Lady" and delighted in the live stream of a childbirth.
In this July 25, 2016 file photo, actress Eva Longoria speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. "So when Donald Trump calls us criminals and rapists, he's insulting American families," Longoria, politically active for a number of years, said during her speech to the Democratic convention.
Monotonously repeated in political speeches and talking-head blather, this claim is heedless of the Islamic doctrinal roots on which foreign-born Islamists and the jihadists they breed base their anti-Americanism. It is also dead wrong.
Washington, July 30 : US President Barack Obama considers Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "good friend" and both countries are in close contact on resolving the tensions over the South China Sea following the Hague court's ruling and China's belligerent stand on the issue, the White House has said. White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz, asked if the US is in contact with India over resolving the issue, said during a daily briefing on Friday: "We're in close contact with the government of India.
The report says the fire stemmed from the simple, improper disposal of a cigarette in the couch on the second-floor exterior porch leading to the apartment at 198 Wilson St. Robert Streb and Jimmy Walker were forced to share a spotlight in the 98th PGA Championship.
The 2016 presidential campaign has dealt a potentially lethal blow to President Barack Obama's signature Pacific trade agreement, with the chances of congressional passage now looking slim either after the election or under the next administration.