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The chief of the Republican Party named a former Utah congresswoman on Friday to head the rules committee at the party's national convention next month, elevating a political veteran from a state where Donald Trump absorbed one of his worst beatings in his quest for the presidential nomination. Enid Mickelsen 's post is important because some dissident delegates say they'll try to persuade the rules committee - and the entire GOP convention - to change procedures and make it easier to find an alternative candidate to Trump.
It's graduation season! It's that time when politicians and celebrities try to come up with witty speeches, crafty arguments and sappy words to motivate graduates as they move on to the next phase of their lives. But one Chicago-area kid has taken the graduation speech to the next level.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Totalitarian governments and those who seek to expand the power and control of government fear the free exchange of information and ideas. The Obama administration is no exception and has long pushed the concept of "net neutrality" which, in the name of giving everyone equal access to the Internet, empowers government to be the traffic cop -- in essence putting government toll booths on the information superhighway.
An at-times emotional Mitt Romney lashed out at the slate of 2016 Republican presidential candidates for failing to stop Donald Trump , saying what's become of the GOP "is breaking my heart." CNN and Politico reported Romney appeared to tear up during the closed-door gathering when making the comment at a summit he's hosting for many of his top supporters and donors from the 2012 campaign.
It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Donald Trump - one that allowed the "Never Trump" movement to emerge from the ashes with some much-needed newfound energy. The presumptive Republican nominee prompted sharp criticism from members within his own party when he publicly argued that a US federal judge's Mexican heritage made him unfit to oversee fraud cases involving Trump University.
Mitt Romney on Saturday torched Donald Trump and the Republicans who failed to stop his climb to the party's presidential nomination, saying the current fortunes of the GOP are "breaking my heart." Romney's condemnation, made at the Stein Eriksen Lodge before hundreds of his donors and business partners, highlighted the ill will between the last two GOP nominees for president.
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It's exceedingly improbable, but not completely farfetched: Dismayed Republicans could still dump Donald Trump and find a different presidential nominee at their national convention next month. Once viewed as a political joke, the blunt-spoken billionaire has stormed to the cusp of becoming the GOP nominee.
Internet legislation proposed Wednesday in the Senate would prohibit the U.S. government from relinquishing its role with respect to overseeing the web's domain name system, or DNS, unless explicitly authorized by Congress. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration , a division of the Commerce Department, currently oversees control of the DNS, a virtual phonebook of sorts that allows internet users to easily browse the web by allocating domain names to websites the world over.
The Vermont senator, who is hunkering down in California for his last showdown with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, used the nickname as he bashed the presumptive Republican nominee for embracing -- and then backing away from -- the idea of a debate against Sanders. "Let me not worry about Hillary Clinton right now.
My heart goes out to the families and lives lost in Orlando. While I don't condone the LGBT lifestyle, I don't agree with violent attacks against the LGBT community.
Delegates listen to speeches in the main hall at the National Libertarian Party Convention, on Friday in Orlando. ORLANDO - Upstairs, Bill Weld was the presumptive vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party, powering through interview after interview.
Brash U.S. billionaire Donald Trump on Thursday hit the number of delegates needed to grab the Republican Party nomination, as some experts predict that he will be a competitive candidate in the presidential race. The development comes on the heels of Trump's recent surge in the polls, as he for the first time is running neck-in-neck with likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton .
A raft of polls in recent days has shown a sharply tighter presidential race , with Hillary Clinton 's lead over Donald Trump shrinking to just a couple of points. Those polls have generated a lot of questions: Just how reliable is polling this far in advance of an election? What's causing the polls to shift? Can Trump actually win? Nope.
Calling the Obama administration guidelines "outside the bounds of the constitution," the McKinney Republican said that the state was taking action to protect a school district near the Oklahoma border that had passed a policy earlier this week requiring students to use bathrooms according to the gender cited on their birth certificates. "Harrold Independent School District fulfilled a responsibility to their community and adopted a bathroom policy puts the safety of their students first," said Paxton.
A lack of a compelling statewide race at the top of either ticket kept participation in Tuesday's party primary runoff elections squarely at the lackluster level. The Republican race for a spot on the Railroad Commission drew the most participation with a bit more than 377,000 votes cast.