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Listening to the heated, sometimes ill-informed campaign rhetoric in the U.S., especially from one candidate , it's hard to believe that the North American Free Trade Agreement is going to survive. America-first isolationism is on the rise.
There is "little doubt" Russia is behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails, a US official told CNN on Wednesday. The remarks follow a week-long episode where leaked DNC emails showed Democratic officials giving preferential treatment to Hillary Clinton.
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner got defensive when MSNBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell asked him about the security clearance of his wife Huma Abedin, a longtime Hillary Clinton aide. Weiner got heated when O'Donnell asked, "Do you have any worry there will be a challenge put to Huma Abedin, your wife's security clearance or her access to classified information after everything that has happened with the private server in the Clinton home?" The question irked Weiner, who became defensive over his wife and has a reputation for getting feisty with reporters.
New details have emerged about a possible "pay-to-play" scheme that surfaced in the Democratic National Committee documents released by Wikileaks last week. The Democratic National Committee's national finance director sent a White House official who handles personnel matters a list of Democratic donors that the DNC hand-picked for appointments to federal boards and commissions.
During an interview on NBC's "Today" show, the president said he's worried that the Republican nominee has a chance at the White House. "My advice to Democrats - and I don't have to give this advice to Hillary Clinton, because she already knows it - is you stay worried until all those those votes are cast and counted because you know, one of the dangers in an election like this is that people don't take the challenge seriously," Obama said.
Google omitted Donald Trump from the list of current active campaigns when internet users plug in the search term "presidential candidates." Google's search engine, the foundation of their business, includes a feature that triages certain browsing results to the top of the list.
Bernie Sanders loyalists warned that the Democratic Party could rupture over the nomination of Hillary Clinton after a volatile night that saw a large group of Sanders delegates and supporters exit the party's national convention to stage a sit-in at a nearby media tent. They rejected Sanders' call for unity even after the Vermont senator took the symbolic step of declaring Clinton the winner of the state-by-state delegate count inside the convention in Philadelphia.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump posted a two-point lead over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday, the first time he has been ahead since early May. Trump's gains came as he accepted his party's nomination to the Nov. 8 ballot at the four-day Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, and as Clinton's nomination in Philadelphia this week was marred by party divisions and the resignation of a top party official. The July 22-26 poll found that 39 percent of likely voters supported Trump, 37 percent supported Clinton and 24 percent would vote for neither.
When Hillary Clinton first ran for president in 2008 she was badly stung by a backhanded compliment from rival Barack Obama, who called her "likable enough" before going on to win the Democratic nomination and the White House. Eight years later, with her party's nomination to succeed Obama firmly in hand, the question of her likability, trustworthiness and honesty still hangs over her bid to become America's first woman president, this time in a Nov. 8 election against Republican Donald Trump.
Tonight President Obama will take the stage at the Democratic National Convention with one goal - convince voters to elect Hillary Clinton as his successor. The stakes are high for the newly minted nominee, but they are arguably even higher for the incumbent president.
Former President Bill Clinton arrives on stage to deliver remarks on Tuesday, the second day of the Democratic National Convention, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The Tuesday night session of the Democratic convention was really three events, each with its own atmosphere and impact, but all contributing to a single theme: The Clintons are back.
We're a step closer to officially having our Presidential Candidates. Donald Trump for the Republican voters, and now, Hillary Clinton, who's been officially selected at the Democratic National Convention; as the Democratic presidential nominee.
A few of them: the nation needs earplugs and a windshield for spit and food particles when former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani does his Il Duce imitation. Bill Clinton has a rapturously innocent fascination with balloons.
Elizabeth Banks took a page from her popular Pitch Perfect films in a new music video for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. The star-studded video, which debuted during the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, is an a cappella version of Rachel Platten's hit anthem, "Fight Song," which also features the artist.
Bernie Sanders loyalists warned that the Democratic Party could rupture over the nomination of Hillary Clinton after a volatile night that saw a large group of Sanders delegates and supporters exit the party's national convention to stage a sit-in at a nearby media tent. They rejected Sanders' call for unity even after the Vermont senator took the symbolic step of declaring Clinton the winner of the state-by-state delegate count inside the convention in Philadelphia.
Others hugged and declared that every little girl in America - black or white, Asian or Latino, Native or immigrant - could now dream of becoming president. One of the fastest selling t-shirts in the arena reads: "A woman's place is in the White House."
Associated Press Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to speak at the 117th National Convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte on Monday. PHILADELPHIA >> Breaking a historic barrier, Hillary Clinton triumphantly captured the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday night, the first woman ever to lead a major political party in the race for the White House - and a delegate from Humboldt County was there to see it all.
Bill Clinton made the case that his wife is "the best darn change-maker I've ever met my entire life" at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night. In fact, he made this point over and over and over again.