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While we shouldn't live in the past, we can certainly learn from it. We are not the first humans to walk the Earth and yet too many, especially the young, suffer from the conceit that history is just a boring subject in school.
In high school, I was a rather awkward, nerdish history buff . I was also something of a lefty, particularly compared to my conservative religious upbringing.
Facing criticism for some of the donations given to his family's philanthropy, Bill Clinton said Thursday that the Clinton Foundation would no longer accept foreign or corporate funds and that he would resign from the board should Hillary Clinton win the presidency. Clinton's announcement, which he relayed to foundation employees in a meeting Thursday, followed the recent release of State Department emails mentioning several donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation who had contacts with aides to Clinton while she was secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton told the FBI that her predecessor Colin Powell recommended that she use a private email account during her tenure as secretary of state, according to a new report. The New York Times reported on the revelation Thursday, based on notes from Clinton's interview with the FBI about her server that were delivered to Congress this week and on a preview of a book about Bill Clinton's post-presidential years.
The visit comes as the Republican presidential nominee attempts to shift his public image from that of a bombastic entertainer to a presidential figure. Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and his wife Karen , talk to Louisiana officials including Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry , after arriving at the Baton Rouge Airport in Baton Rouge, La., Friday.
If you only read one thing: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is out Friday morning, following a campaign shakeup days earlier and a steady drip of stories about his past business dealings in Ukraine. A veteran lobbyist, Manafort was initially brought in to manage the campaign's delegate operations before the GOP convention, but rose to assume full command in June after pushing out former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in a power struggle.
President Bill Clinton clinches his fist during an Oct. 27, 1996, speech on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville During President Bill Clinton's first term in office, much of the United States took for granted that there would be welfare reform of some sort. The question was what it would look like.
The Justice Department says it's phasing out its relationships w... . FILE - In this June 28, 2016 file photo, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington.
Twenty-seven days after his coronation in Cleveland and post-convention bounce, Donald Trump's prospects appear to be dwindling -- a precipitous decline he sought to reverse on Wednesday with a major shakeup of top campaign staff. Weighed down by a dizzying string of successive and overlapping controversies, verbal spats, and political missteps, Trump saw his brief advantage evaporate in a haze of conflicts with everyone from the parents of a slain Muslim-American war hero and the most powerful elected official in Republican politics to a crying baby.
The Republican presidential nominee's surprising near-apology during a speech in Charlotte, N.C., came after the latest shake-up in his campaign staff earlier this week. It was also the latest attempt, amid falling poll numbers , to try and show himself as more truthful than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton .
For Kansas' elected officials, the message is clear: Your commitment to investing in public health is fundamental to our pursuit of stronger, healthier communities. It happens every day.
Donald Trump's support among white men, the linchpin of his presidential campaign, is showing surprising signs of weakness that could foreclose his only remaining path to victory in November. If not reversed, the trend could materialize into one of the most unanticipated developments of the 2016 presidential campaign: That Hillary Clinton, the first woman at the head a major party ticket and a divisive figure unpopular with many men, ends up narrowing the gender gap that has been a constant of American presidential elections for decades.
News this week that insurance giant Aetna would pull out of Obamacare exchanges in 11 of 15 states resulted in a chorus of "I told you so" from those opposed to the Affordable Care Act. And no wonder.
Shaken by the fact he's losing, Donald Trump has fled into the parallel universe of the extreme right - and apparently plans to stay there for the remainder of the campaign. Let's see if the rest of the Republican Party is dumb enough to follow him.
JE SUIS OMRAN. Somewhere on the Internet there must be such a meme - a photo of Omran Daqneesh, the 5-year-old Syrian boy pulled from rubble in Aleppo, emblazoned with that familiar tag, "Je suis ..." "I am" has become the preface to tragedy, most often a massacre, like the one at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, but not always.
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told federal investigators that former Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested she use a personal email account, the New York Times reported late on Thursday. Clinton has for over a year been dogged by questions about her use of a private email account while she was the nation's top diplomat.
A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with bulging belly and elaborate yellow hair, caused laughter and merriment in New York on Thursday until it was demolished by park wardens. Hands clasped across ample belly, the sculpture was unveiled in Union Square, gazing out across a busy street with an engraved plaque reading "The Emperor Has No Balls", witnesses said.
Confidence in either U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton being a good president continues to remain low, as was the case earlier this year, a Pew Research Center poll said on Thursday. Just 27 percent of registered voters think Trump would make a good or great president, while 55 percent say the bellicose New York billionaire developer would be either poor or terrible president.