Dem platform draft adopts Sanders proposal on taxing foreign earnings

"We will end deferrals so that American corporations pay U.S. taxes immediately on foreign profits and can no longer escape paying their fair share of United States taxes by stashing profits abroad," the platform draft states. As Sanders had proposed, the platform draft calls for using the revenue generated by the change to invest in infrastructure.

In party platform, Democrats call for end to death penalty

The latest draft of the party's platform, released Friday, says the death penalty "has proven to be a cruel and unusual form of punishment" that "has no place in the United States of America." The inclusion of the provision represents a victory of sorts for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders - a longtime opponent of the punishment who has said he is remaining in the presidential race in order to fight for progressive causes.

Contest winner to nominate Clinton at Dem convention

Hillary Rodham Clinton Labor chief: Clinton-Lynch meet not 'planned in advance' Clinton scheduled to interview with FBI: reports Dem platform draft adopts Sanders proposal on taxing foreign earnings MORE 's campaign will hold a contest to pick a supporter who will nominate Clinton for president at the Democratic National Convention. "We want to make the moment when history gets made reflect the path that brought us to this point - by doing something that's literally never been done before," Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta says in an email that will be sent to supporters, according to NBC.

GOP senator: Lynch should formally hand over Clinton probe

Kelly Ayotte GOP senator: Lynch should formally hand over Clinton probe The Trail 2016: Meet and greet and grief Clean energy group backs two GOP incumbents MORE is joining a growing number of Republicans who want Attorney General Loretta Lynch to hand off a Department of Justice investigation into Hillary Rodham Clinton Labor chief: Clinton-Lynch meet not 'planned in advance' Clinton scheduled to interview with FBI: reports Dem platform draft adopts Sanders proposal on taxing foreign earnings MORE "I believe Attorney General Lynch should recuse herself from this case given the importance of the investigation and the need to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest to ensure that all Americans have confidence in the outcome," said Ayotte, the former attorney general of New Hampshire.

Benghazi Victims’ Relatives Blast Clinton’s Plea to ‘Move On’

Hillary Clinton may have weathered House Republicans' Benghazi investigation, but her desire to put the issue to bed came across to some as remarkably tone-deaf. "I'll leave it to others to characterize the report, but I think it's pretty clear it's time to move on," the former secretary of state said earlier this week in Denver, just after the release of the report on the deadly 2012 incident in Libya.

The Clinton-Lynch Meeting: Corruption, Not Bad – Optics’by David…

The nation's top law-enforcement official and the former president and husband of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee - who is under federal investigation - had a talk. Rather than conceding that such a private encounter is at the very least a conflict of interest, Democrats preemptively complained about the "optics."

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Second, it is easier to forgive defective judgment than deficient honor. Trump is out whining like the spoiled little princess he is and always has been that his fellow Republican presidential contenders, having been vanquished, are not making good on their promise to support the GOP nominee, presumably himself.

Clinton may not have diplomatic advantage she claims she does

One of Hillary Clinton's most often-repeated slams at her opponent for the presidency, Donald Trump, is that he allegedly would be a disaster for U.S. relations with other world powers. Trump, his critics insist, is not liked or trusted by many U.S. allies and the people in those countries.

Trump talks trade at shuttered NH factory

Republican Donald Trump talked trade at a shuttered New Hampshire factory on Thursday, putting a more personal spin on his vow to rip up the nation's trade deals and impose new tariffs in an effort to revive local manufacturing jobs. Speaking to a small, invitation-only crowd outside the closed Osram Sylvania plant, which used to manufacture lighting products, Trump again called for backing away from decades of U.S. policy that encouraged trade with other nations.

Biden says Sanders will endorse Clinton

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has assured Vice President Joe Biden that he'll eventually endorse his Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton, Biden told an interviewer Thursday. "Oh, I've talked to Bernie, Bernie's going to endorse her, this is going to work out," Biden told National Public Radio in an interview for "Weekend Edition" that will air on Sunday.

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