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An opinion poll has put Donald Trump ahead of Hillary Clinton with less than a week to go before the November 8 US presidential election. The Republican scored a one point lead (46%) over his Democratic rival (45%) in a random telephone survey of just over 1100 likely voters. ( ABC/Washington Post) Democratic campaign aids […]

WASHINGTON — Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoys an eight-point lead over Donald Trump in Florida, a key presidential battleground, according to a new survey, and that’s due in no small part to significant crossover support from 28 percent of early voting Republicans. The poll, by TargetSmart, a political data firm, and the College of William and

With less than a week until Election Day, the presidential candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, are scrambling to convince voters in the states that will ultimately decide the election. Trump is holding three rallies Wednesday in Florida, while Clinton has scheduled stops in Arizona and Nevada for events aimed at getting out

Donald Trump’s campaign Tuesday night said that he “denounces hate in any form” and disavowed support for his candidacy offered by a newspaper associated with the Ku Klux Klan. The campaign’s statement came hours after the Crusader devoted its front page to Trump’s well-known campaign slogan. ” ‘Make America Great Again!’ It is a slogan

On the 499th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, a group of black minsters is nailing a missive to the door of the Democratic Party demanding a political reformation on the issues black people care about. Delivered to Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters on Monday, the blistering letter is signed by more than 25 interdenominational black

President Obama has suggested in an interview that sexism is playing a role in the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s emails. In an interview on “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” that aired late Monday, the president said bias against women has “contributed to this notion that somehow she is hiding something.” Ms. Bee had asked the

Sheldon Adelson—the chief executive officer (CEO) of Las Vegas Sands and the presidential election’s top Republican donor, to both super PACs and campaigns—pledged $25 million to a pro-Donald Trump PAC on Monday, an amount five times his planned donation in support of the candidate. The billionaire, who endorsed the Republican candidate at the tail end

DADE CITY, Fla.—One week before she may be elected the nation’s first female president, Hillary Clinton listed the titles she has amassed in her life: lawyer, first lady, senator and secretary of State, as well as wife, mother and grandmother. “And, for my entire life, I’ve been a woman!” she declared, to state the obvious.

Less than two years ago, President Obama sent his first tweet from the only Twitter account ever dedicated exclusively to the highest office in the land. When his eight years in office end on January 20, Obama will hand over his “@POTUS” handle to his successor. In a blog post Monday, the White House laid

Rick Santorum admonished Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday for not casting a vote for Donald Trump despite signing a loyalty pledge last year to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee. Mr. Kasich, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race in May, cast a write-in vote on Monday for 2008 Republican nominee John McCain,

CHICAGO — Gannett announced Tuesday it was pulling its offer for Tronc, ending a six-month pursuit of the Chicago-based company that publishes, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. A spokesman for Gannett said: “While we have great respect for the Tronc employees and properties, and while we believed that the acquisition

DENVER – Donald Trump’s momentum with gay Republicans grew Tuesday with the endorsement of the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans, the latest affiliate to defy the national organization’s refusal to back a presidential candidate. The Colorado chapter joins state groups in Georgia and Texas as well as those in Los Angeles, Miami, Cleveland and Orange County

DALLAS — Wearing an orange T-shirt and an “I voted” sticker, Randy Smith walked to the podium at Dallas County Commissioners Court on Tuesday to protest what he sees as a grave injustice. For close to 20 years, Smith, 43, worked as an appointed Democratic Party election judge, his only current job, supervising a polling

A new round of WikiLeaks documents released Tuesday reveal a March 2015 exchange between Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and confidant Cheryl Mills on the need to “dump” emails. Twitter’s trending news feed was dominated by #PodestaEmails25 after a new batch of stolen documents belonging to John Podesta were posted online. A March 2, 2015, discussion