This Week in Politics: Foundations – Ethical Minefields and Donor Magnets

Former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton at Wynn Las Vegas in first CNN Democratic Debate. But it was also a week that found her, once again, answering questions about emails - and about a report that more than half of the people outside the government who met with her while she was secretary of state gave money to the Clinton Foundation.

Democrats Have Nothing to Fear but Losing Black Votes

Donald Trump's outreach to black voters was predictably met with unbridled, laughably over-the-top scorn and derision from Democrats and their media allies media allies who at this point are so blatantly unfair that one might think they would no longer even have the audacity to object to being mocked as Clinton shills. Gripped by fear that Donald Trump's efforts might peel black votes from Democrats in key battleground states, the Clinton campaign has embraced the lowest brand of gutter politics: tying Donald Trump to the KKK and other white supremacist groups.

Clinton attacks Trump’s outreach to black voters in new ad

Dr Ben Carson and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Pierry Benjamin attend a round table with the Republican Leadership Initiative at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, August 25, 2016. Photo: Reuters Democrat Hillary Clinton called on Friday for voters to reject the "bigotry" of Donald Trump's White House campaign, releasing a television ad criticizing his efforts to appeal to black voters and saying she was reaching out to people from all parties who are troubled by his candidacy.

US: Clinton calendars won’t be released until after election

" Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won't finish the job before Election Day. The department has so far released about half of the schedules.

Clinton says controversies behind her; Trump begs to differ

" Hillary Clinton vigorously defended her family's foundation against Donald Trump's criticism on Friday and declared she's confident there will be no major further accusations involving the foundation, her emails or anything else that could undermine her chances of defeating him in November. She said the private Clinton Foundation's charitable programs would continue if she's elected, even as Trump and other critics argue they would present a conflict of interest.

US Open top seeds Williams, Djokovic coming off injuries

The fir... Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage has unleashed an obscene tirade on a Democratic legislator, leaving him a message that said "I am after you" and telling reporters he wished he could point a gun between the... Maine's bombastic Republican governor has built a reputation on his unfiltered comments, but his obscene tirade unleashed on a liberal lawmaker prompted Democratic lawmakers Friday to warn that the governor was coming... A judge whose six-month sentence in the sexual assault case of a former Stanford swimmer has removed himself from handling criminal matters, but efforts to recall him remain.

How Clinton, Trump plan to woo ‘religious vote’

Republican Donald Trump has told conservative evangelical pastors in Florida that his presidency would preserve "religious liberty" and reverse what he insists is a government-enforced muzzling of Christians. The same afternoon, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine praised another, more liberal group of black church leaders in Louisiana for their "progressive values that are the values of Scripture," and he urged them to see Hillary Clinton as a kindred spirit.

The Middle East braces itself for US Elections

From Jerusalem to Beirut to Cairo, the upcoming US elections are being closely followed, partly for their entertainment appeal, but also as the US remains crucial for its role in the Middle East. "Partly because of the characters involved, there has been a lot of media coverage here," Tamir Sheafer, a professor of political science at Hebrew University told The Media Line.

Where do Trump and Clinton stand on keeping the internet open?

When the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve net neutrality rules last year, many people saw it as a done deal. Supporters cheered the decision as a victory for the free and open internet, where the deep pockets of big companies couldn't buy faster web speeds over struggling startups.

Political Happy Hour: Friday, August 26, 2016

Here's your vintage yabba-dabba-doo! mug of politics, from Joshua Miller of the Boston Globe at the Massachusetts State House. PAUL LePAGE OF MAINE, THE NATION'S MOST MEASURED, CALM GOVERNOR, via Eric Russell and Scott Thistle of the Portland Press Herald: "A top Democrat has called on Gov. Paul LePage to resign over a profanity-laced and threatening voicemail he left a day earlier for a state representative from Westbrook.

Hillary Clinton critic’s FOURTH book bashing the presidential…

Hillary Clinton critic's FOURTH book bashing the presidential candidate is due out a month before the election - exposing 'corruption on a level some would call TREASON' Ed Klein's new Hillary Clinton book, Guilty as Sin, will focus on the personal email server that Clinton set up in her home in Chappaqua, New York He claims it will reveal 'what Bill and Hillary still have left in their bag of tricks in their desperate quest to get back into the Oval Office' The book included the allegation that Chelsea was conceived after Bill had forced Hillary into sex during a 1979 vacation at a resort in Bermuda.

Hillary Clinton: Foundation ‘looking for partners’

Hillary Clinton said Friday her family's foundation is "looking for partners" to help separate its work from her potential election as president, but again insisted that such an effort would take "a long time." The Democratic candidate was again defending the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works around the world, as it draws criticism for the nature of its donors and potential for conflict of interest with Clinton's political offices.