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What happens on Nov. 9? What becomes of us after Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is elected as the 45th president of the United States? With Election Day five weeks away, the race for president remains competitive. The path to 270 Electoral College votes is nowhere close to being clear, even though professional number-crunchers point to a Clinton advantage heading down the home stretch.
A price or tax on carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels is long past due in the Northwest and the rest of the United States. Washington voters have a chance to break a political gridlock over state climate change policy by adopting Initiative 732 on Nov. 8. If enacted, the carbon tax would gradually move Washington closer in sync with British Columbia, which adopted such a tax nearly a decade ago to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Here are some of the dangers cyclists face on Chicago roads, including trucks obstructing bike lanes, drivers opening doors on cyclists and potholes. Sept.
When Mitt Romney lost in 2012, there was very little discussion of blame. Everyone assumed that Romney simply lost because he didn't do a good enough job of convincing voters to punch the ballot for him.
And now, less than six weeks from the election, what is the main event of the day? A fight between the GOP presidential nominee and a former Miss Universe, whom he had 20 years ago called Miss Piggy and other choice pejoratives. Just a few weeks earlier, we were seized by a transient hysteria over a minor Hillary Clinton lung infection hyped to near-mortal status.
If it seems as if the state always misses its tax collection estimates, that's because it's happened a lot lately. August tax collections were $10.2 million less than projected - the 10th month of the past 12 that the state missed its estimates.
The principle of what's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander appears lost on Capitol Hill. If the anti-immigrant agitation over so-called "sanctuary cities" for immigrants who are here illegally has any basis in fact, the concern should be grounded in policy, not politics.
Unfortunately for Bush, he soon lost the “I paid for this microphone!” debate with Ronald Reagan in New Hampshire that propelled the Gipper's turnaround toward capturing the Republican nomination. Trump certainly had the Big Mo going into the first debate.
This presidential election is a contest between the oldest of the baby boomers. Yet Donald Trump, 70, and Hillary Clinton, 68, represent two very different decades in the formation of that generation.
For 90 minutes this week, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in their first presidential debate on a full range of issues. But meriting not a single mention? Obamacare.
The Detroit suburb of Troy is the safest city in Michigan among those with a population in excess of 50,000, based on 2015 Federal Bureau of Investigation crime data.
We don't have a contender in the race, but we're fascinated by the homestretch of the run to the White House. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are having a no-holds-barred battle to become the next president of the United States.
Savley, a former New Yorker, has lived in Roanoke for 24 years. He is an electrical engineer by training and a global semiconductor marketing executive by career choice.
Most people are familiar with the "Ponzi Scheme," a fraudulent investment scam that pays returns to older investors with money from newer investors, rather than from legitimate profits.
Black Lives Matter started with a hashtag. Now it is a rallying cry, a cause and a movement in the wake of the deaths of black men at the hands of police.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the first presidential debate on Monday, September 26. Clinton, 68, is the first woman to lead a presidential ticket for one of the major political parties. She has been a U.S. senator and secretary of state.
Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf offered more apologies and excuses Thursday during his appearance before the House Financial Services Committee. REUTERS/Gary Cameron For the second time this month, Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf was greeted with a barrage of hostile questions from members of Congress, when he testified Thursday before the House Financial Services Committee about the bank's phony-account affair.
Josef Joffe is editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg and fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he teaches U.S. foreign policy. For a country supposedly in decline, the United States is getting a lot of attention these days.