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With the primary season near its end, a defiant Bernie Sanders declared Saturday that the Democratic presidential process should not be decided by party leaders and elected officials, predicting a contested summer convention against rival Hillary Clinton. Speaking to reporters three days before the California primary, Sanders showed few signs of surrender, vowing to take his bid to the Philadelphia convention in July.
Donald Trump is blaming the violent clashes between protesters and his supporters outside his San Jose campaign rally earlier this week on "thugs" and "illegals." "Many of the thugs that attacked the peaceful Trump supporters in San Jose were illegals.
The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks next to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, with the Atomic Bomb Dome in the background. Mike Polk, Jr., imagines that things would have gone very differently if the speech had been given by President Trump.
President Barack Obama on Friday stumped alongside embattled Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, encouraging Democrats to "have her back." " has been just an incredible supporter of my agenda.
When I was a young political reporter running around the country, I worked for an editor who barred his staff from quoting taxi drivers in stories. "If the only 'real person' you can find is the guy who takes you from the airport to your hotel, your reporting is too shallow," I recall him saying.
The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.
President Barack Obama on Friday commuted the sentences of more than 40 drug offenders as his administration continues its effort to lessen the punishments of non-violent criminals. Most of the 42 federal prisoners had been convicted for cocaine-related offenses, including distribution and trafficking.
Hillary Clinton had a bad week. A scathing report from the State Department's inspector general on Clinton's use of a private email server for government business would have ignited more of a media firestorm than it did had Donald Trump not done what he does best: sucked up all the oxygen with his outrageous behavior.
Cities reduced to rubble, schools and hospitals leveled, prisoners tortured and executed, car bombs exploding. Long lines of refugees, their homes in ruins, stumbling along a road to nowhere with their few remaining possessions carried on their backs.
The State Department lied to the American public to sell the Iran deal. The State Department acknowledged this lie, in public, during a press conference.
The acrid odor of Democratic panic, as real as the aroma of burned flesh and cordite on a battlefield, hangs over California in a dark cloud of confusion and uncertainty. "This is how it smelled in '64," says a stunned Democratic observer in Sacramento, "with [Barry] Goldwater charging and [Nelson] Rockefeller on the run."
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.
The pilot of a U.S. Air Force Thunderbird that crashed following a flyover met with President Barack Obama shortly safely ejecting safely into a Colorado field. News of the crash broke while Obama's motorcade was returning to Peterson Air Force Base for his flight back to Washington.
Residents of some rural southeastern Texas counties were bracing for more flooding along the Brazos River, which... . James Billings, left, and his dog Shadow, stands with Philip McBride, right, as they watch the water rise Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Horseshoe Bend, Texas.
US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tore into her likely election rival Donald Trump as never before Thursday, saying his foreign policy is dangerously incoherent and labeling him unfit for office. "He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility," Clinton said, cranking up the rhetoric on what is already a deeply acrimonious election.
Kansas vowed on Wednesday to sue the Obama administration over a directive telling U.S. public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identities. The announcement by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt made the state the 13th to wade into an acrimonious debate about the rights of transgender Americans.
Donald Trump pioneered the lightning-round of TV interviews via phone - aka phoners - during his remarkable run to the Republican presidential nomination during the past 11 months. With phone in hand, Trump could be seemingly nowhere and everywhere all at once, "appearing" for interviews on several shows in quick succession.
A group of protesters attacked Trump supporters. . Protesters against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump kick and jump on a car leaving a Trump campaign rally on Thursday, June 2, 2016, in San Jose, Calif.