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WASHINGTON - Advance voting shows positive signs for Hillary Clinton in two states that could help her lock up the presidency, North Carolina and Florida, as the election enters a critical, final stretch.
A new national poll from Fox News finds Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 7 percentage points among likely voters. The poll was taken following the second national debate Sunday and the surfacing of a leaked 2005 tape showing Trump making a series of offensive sexual remarks about women.
Hillary Clinton's campaign has a response to Donald Trump's top aides suggesting that they will depressing turnout by going negative: You're too late. Trump's campaign has been rocked by allegations of sexual assault and a 2005 video that shows the candidate casually talking about groping women.
The list of women alleging aggressive sexual behavior by Donald Trump is growing again. This time it's a woman who claims he tried to kiss her on the mouth when he was introduced to her at a Mother's Day brunch at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Hacked emails released in daily dispatches this past week by the WikiLeaks group exposed the inner workings of Hillary Clinton's campaign leading up to her 2015 announcement that she would seek the presidency, and through this year's primary. U.S. intelligence officials have blamed the Russian government for a series of breaches intended to influence the presidential election.
Donald Trump acted out onstage an accuser's allegations and suggested another wasn't worthy of his attention the same day two more women came forward with years-old stories of unwanted sexual encounters with the Republican presidential nominee. With eight women accusing Trump of unwanted kissing, groping or more, the New York businessman maintained his innocence and his denunciation of opponent Hillary Clinton and an international media conspiracy aimed at denying him the White House.
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday outlined his case against the candidacy of Hillary Clinton -- without mentioning Donald Trump a single time. Ryan's first extensive public remarks since effectively abandoning Trump's candidacy earlier this week provided a glimpse into the challenge the speaker will face in the closing weeks of the campaign in trying to push for Republican candidates up and down the ballot without becoming tainted by the controversies swirling around Trump.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Henderson Pavilion on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Henderson, Nev. Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @Erik_Verduzco Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Delaware County Fair, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, in Delaware, Ohio.
Hillary Clinton said under oath in a court filing Thursday that she can't recall key details about her use of a private email server or she refused to answer questions about it posed by a conservative legal group. Clinton lawyer David Kendall provided the Democratic presidential nominee's sworn responses to 25 written questions submitted by Judicial Watch.
Hillary Clinton privately said the U.S. would "ring China with missile defense" if the Chinese government failed to curb North Korea's nuclear program. Clinton's comments were revealed by WikiLeaks in a hack of the Clinton campaign chairman's personal account.
There is no getting away from the degradation that is taking place, on colossal scale, in US presidential politics. The sense of two dysfunctional candidates beating each other over the remains of the US republic as it suffers the last paroxysm of what might have been an interesting future are all too evident.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, second from right, pauses while speaking with senior aide Huma Abedin aboard Clinton's campaign plane while traveling to Miami on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. On Wednesday, hackers, using information they'd gleaned from an email published by WikiLeaks, took control of his Twitter account and on Thursday wiped his iPhone and iPad clean of data.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shed little new light on her use of a private email system as secretary of state Thursday in a carefully worded, court-ordered response to 25 detailed questions by a conservative legal group in a civil public records lawsuit in Washington. Clinton, submitting written answers under oath through her attorney, David Kendall, cited objections in declining to address several questions in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch.
Facing a tough re-election bid in a presidential battleground state, North Carolina U.S. Sen. Richard Burr said Thursday that he accepts Donald Trump's statements that he didn't commit sexual assault and still supports Trump politically because he's worried more about Hillary Clinton's "lack of judgment." In his only scheduled debate with upstart Democratic challenger Deborah Ross, Burr became the latest Republican candidate to have to explain his continued backing for the GOP presidential nominee.
It would be nice if this hellscape of an election managed to raise thoughtful discussions on one or two issues of national concern, but instead it appears that it has come down to a single-question personality test. Not, "Which candidate would you rather have a beer with?" but, "Which candidate, or candidate's husband, would you be most afraid to ride alone in an elevator with?" The procession of women this week who accused Donald Trump of forcibly touching and kissing them - one woman said he accosted her on a plane 30 years ago; another said he pinned her against a wall in 2005 while his pregnant wife was upstairs - was unnerving.
Last Halloween, Erin Holin and her husband coiffed their 2-year-old's blond hair, Donald Trump style, and bought him a little suit with a red tie as his costume. "I taught him to say, 'I'm very rich!' He even squished his face to be 'angry Trump,'" she said.
On April 7, Zakir Hossain turned on his family's computer and did something he had never done before: he contributed to a presidential campaign. That night, the 45-year-old father of three made a donation of $10 on his credit card to Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton vowed to defend Americans she says have been attacked by rival Donald Trump on Thursday, telling donors at a fundraiser that the campaign's negative tone might make some people retreat to the Internet to watch soothing cat GIFs. Without mentioning allegations of sexual assault against Trump, Clinton said, "disturbing stories just keep on coming" about him.
"It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me , and I can now fight for America the way I want to", Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. Mr Trump, who is trailing Clinton in the polls by 11 points, responded to Mr Ryan's announcement with a series of increasingly bullish tweets.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's provocative proposals on immigration, trade and other issues have drawn attention and verbal attacks - as well as some praise - well beyond the United States' shores. Here is a sampling.