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The White House said Friday that President Obama’s top advisers conducted an “even-handed” transition meeting with representatives of presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, even though Mr. Obama is rooting for Mrs. Clinton. “The president and his team are determined to being even-handed in planning for a presidential transition,” said White House press secretary […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Santa Clara County judge who faces a recall threat for giving a light sentence to a Stanford student convicted of sexual assault will no longer handle criminal cases — at his own request. Judge Aaron Persky asked to be reassigned from hearing criminal cases at the Palo Alto courthouse, where

North Korea’s in a good mood these days. The nation is celebrating its first successful test of a submarine-launched missile. The country’s leader — Kim Jong Un — says the US mainland is now within striking range of his nuclear weapons. That sounds like a threat. Joel Wit, a former US nuclear negotiator with North

Hillary Clinton is pushing back on a report this week that she took many meetings with Clinton Foundation donors as secretary of state, saying there’s “a lot of smoke” but “no fire.” “My work as secretary of state was not influenced by any outside forces,” Mrs. Clinton said in a telephone interview with CNN Wednesday

Washington (dpa) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused Republican rival Donald Trump of “prejudice and paranoia” and said he has embraced the racist fringe of the United States. “A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the