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A federal judge threw out multiple aspects of Wisconsin's voter ID law on Friday, leaving the law itself intact but ruling unconstitutional many restrictions on voting passed by the GOP -controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Scott Walker . Two liberal groups filed a lawsuit in May challenging the laws, including a requirement that voters show photo identification.
Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president with "humility, determination and boundless confidence in America's promise," taking her place as the first woman to lead a major presidential ticket Thursday night on the last day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She accepted the nomination with a speech that was in keeping with someone who presents herself as a practical, dogged, policy-oriented striver who gets knocked down and then gets straight back up.
A brief article appeared on the front page of the Friday, July 22 edition of The Daily Advance listing North Carolina mayors who have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Among them was a local mayor who said he based his choice on "...the importance of strengthening rural America."
Michelle Obama looks cozy and casual as she holds her dog Sunny, after receiving the White House Christmas tree in Washington,DC on November 29, 2013. Michelle Obama looks cozy and casual as she holds her dog Sunny, after receiving the White House Christmas tree in Washington,DC on November 29, 2013.
"He sounded like some two-bit dictator ..." - Sen. Elizabeth Warren Friday morning I read through a Trump acceptance speech Facebook thread by Bernie Sanders supporters. Friends.
It would take almost 14 days of eyes glued to the television to watch all the feel-good Hillary Clinton ads that have aired since the general election campaign began last month. Meanwhile, anyone flipping through the channels looking for positive ads about Donald Trump would be disappointed: He hasn't yet put up a spot appealing to November voters and groups supporting him have been similarly silent.
In the campaign for North Carolina's 15 electoral votes, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appears far ahead of Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump in both money and machinery. She's often stumped in the state, rolled out high-profile surrogates - President Barack Obama, for example - and is spending millions of dollars to assemble get-out-the-vote operations and fill the television airwaves with campaign ads.
The request for a preliminary injunction, filed late Tuesday, provides the most extensive look yet at the Justice Department's argument that the bathroom-access requirements violate federal law. The filing comes just after North Carolina lawmakers left the measure largely intact during their session that ended Friday, all but ensuring that the measure's fate will be decided in federal court.
Donald Trump praised Saddam Hussein , telling supporters in North Carolina that the former Iraqi dictator was a "really bad guy" but noting that he was "so good" at killing terrorists. "Saddam Hussein was a bad guy.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker met privately with Donald Trump for a second time Tuesday and then joined the presumptive GOP presidential candidate at a campaign rally in North Carolina amid speculation that Trump is close to picking his vice presidential running mate. "I wasn't going to say anything - I just came to visit," Corker told the cheering crowd as he strolled onto the stage alongside Trump at the campaign event in Raleigh.
For one, North Carolina's senior Republican U.S. senator planned to skip Donald Trump's campaign rally in Raleigh on Tuesday, saying he needed to be in Washington to deal with national security matters in light of recent global terror attacks. And while Burr will attend his party's national convention later this month to greet North Carolina delegates, he'll be in Cleveland for only a short time.
A "fired up" President Obama took the stage in North Carolina to stump for his one-time political rival Hillary Clinton, being greeted by the crowed with thunderous applause and saying no one has been "more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton." Clinton, fresh off the news that she won't face charges in the probe of her use of private email, took the stage first to chants of "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary."
FBI recommends no charges for Clinton over email system at State Department The FBI has not yet said what the subject of Comey's statement will be. Check out this story on thestarpress.com: http://usat.ly/29ejtpu WASHINGTON - The FBI recommended Tuesday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges over her use of a private email server as secretary of State, even though she and aides were "extremely careless" in handling classified information.
When they take the stage at their first joint campaign appearance on Tuesday, President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will show off a new phase in their storied relationship: co-dependents. Clinton's chances of winning the White House hinge on rallying Obama's coalition to her cause.
One of Hillary Clinton's biggest fans, Andrea Mitchell, was on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday to talk, among other things, about Clinton's week. It seemed as though she couldn't help but moan about the optics surrounding Bill Clinton's secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
The vaunted data-driven machine that twice got President Barack Obama elected is revving up to help elect Hillary Clinton, as Democrats look to recreate the tactical advantage they used against Republicans in 2008 and 2012. With Obama's popularity rebounding, Democrats have been eagerly awaiting the president's return to campaigning, and he'll hold his debut event for her Tuesday in North Carolina.
In this Dec. 1, 2008, file photo, then-President-elect Barack Obama, left, stands with then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., after announcing that she is his choice as Secretary of State during a news conference in Chicago. President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign together next week for the first time this year, and their decision to meet up in Charlotte says a lot about how her campaign views her path to replace him in the White House.
A group of gunmen attacked a restauran... . An unidentified security personnel is taken for medical attention after a group of gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 1, 2016.
President Barack Obama will make his campaign-trail debut with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in North Carolina, launching what is expected to be an aggressive effort by Democrats to regain this swing state in November. After flipping between the two parties in the last two presidential elections, North Carolina is emerging as a key battleground and a highly trafficked destination for both parties' presumptive nominees.
In the days following North Carolina's first gubernatorial debate of 2016, polls show Gov. Pat McCrory and N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper neck-and-neck in one of the more closely watched governor's races in the country. A Public Policy Polling survey released in late June showed the candidates deadlocked at 41 percent.