CHICAGO — A British photographer and former child refugee has sued the Trump campaign for allegedly using his photo of a bowl of Skittles in a tweet against accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. David Kittos filed the copyright infringement suit this week in a Chicago federal court, naming as defendants the Trump campaign, Republican […]
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International, USAMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The political cavalry arrived Thursday for Patrick Murphy. His name was Barack Obama. The president used a rousing campaign speech at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens to talk up Murphy, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate who remains unknown to many voters in Miami-Dade, the county with the largest number of
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USADELAWARE, Ohio — Donald Trump made light Thursday of his refusal to promise that he would accept the results of the election. “I want to make a major announcement today,” he said during his first rally since Wednesday’s debate, held at a large barn in Delaware, Ohio. “I would like to promise and pledge to
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USAThe following editorial appeared in The Dallas Morning News on Thursday, Oct. 20: ——— Wednesday night’s presidential debate brought out some of the best in both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, it also brought out the very worst in Trump, who made the chilling pronouncement that he may not accept the outcome of next
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USACall it Bernie Sanders vs. Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Act Two. The Vermont senator and erstwhile presidential candidate, who has helped make prescription drug pricing a high-profile issue, sent the company a letter on Thursday asking for a plethora of data that might explain a string of “staggering” and “outrageous” price hikes for an expensive cancer treatment.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHillary Clinton defended the practice of partial-birth abortion in the final presidential debate on Wednesday, obscuring her belief that abortion should be legal at any point during a pregnancy by appealing to the “health” of the mother. Asked to defend her vote in the Senate against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, which was
It’s a fair bet that many people who tuned in for last night’s final presidential debate weren’t interested in boning up on the policy positions of the duelling candidates. They watched for the same reason wrestling fans follow their favourite villains. They wanted to see if Donald the Terrible could top himself. Could the Republican
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USATwo top Democratic strategists have exited the presidential campaign after explosive undercover videos showed them discussing voter fraud and their roles in planting paid agitators at campaign events for Republican candidate Donald Trump. Robert Creamer, founder of Democracy Advocates and the husband of Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky, Illinois Democrat, stepped down from the campaign Tuesday,
LAS VEGAS — The final presidential debate of 2016 was likely Donald Trump’s last chance to halt Hillary Clinton’s surge in public opinion polls, with less than three weeks until Election Day and more than 2.3 million voters having already mailed in their ballots. Like the previous two debates, Wednesday’s was full of interruptions and
Basketball legend Charles Barkley said Wednesday that sports stars who deny there is lewd talk in locker rooms are being “disingenuous.” He was contradicting several professional athletes, including Cleveland Cavaliers player LeBron James, who objected to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump explaining that his crude remarks about women caught on a hot microphone was “locker
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Sports & Competitions, USAMIAMI — House Speaker Paul Ryan engaged Wednesday on the most quintessential of Miami political traditions: He sipped “cafecito” at Islas Canarias, a Cuban restaurant. But unlike the carefully choreographed visits of most candidates, Ryan’s didn’t include a pack of TV cameras and news photographers chasing him. In two other events, both for endangered Republican
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USASANTA ANA, Calif. — A 56-year-old man slashed his throat Wednesday, apparently with a razor, moments after jurors found him guilty of sexually assaulting a teenager in Huntington Beach. The incident happened in a courtroom on the eighth floor of the Orange County Superior Court building, authorities said. Jeffrey Scott Jones, who was out of
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USAAUSTIN, Texas — A Texas court ruling earlier this year that blocked the federal government’s transgender bathroom rules applies nationwide, the Fort Worth judge presiding over the case said Tuesday. In late August, Judge Reed O’Connor issued a temporary injunction against the Obama administration’s new guidelines that said schools must allow transgender students use the
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USAWASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief once opened doors at home and abroad for an alternative energy firm whose investors include a Vladimir Putin-supported Russian company. These ties were highlighted last week when Donald Trump’s campaign alleged that John Podesta, a former chief of staff to Bill Clinton and special counselor to Barack Obama in
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