Donald Trump is no longer campaigning to become president of the United States, if he ever was actually doing that. As the Republican nominee’s glowering, peevish debate performance Sunday made clear, he is now battling to preserve and fortify his insurgent personality cult. The prize is the extremist, alt-right shard of whatever remains of the […]
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USAIstanbul (dpa) – Turkey’s president has criticized US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “political inexperience” for her comments on arming Kurdish rebels in the fight against Islamic State. Addressing lawyers on Wednesday in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the comments by the Democratic candidate and former US secretary of state as “very unfortunate” and “political
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USALess than four weeks remain before one of the most consequential elections in recent American history. No, not the presidential election. Donald Trump has already lost that one several times over, through his serial attacks on women and minorities, the appearance of a videotape in which he describes himself as a sexual abuser and his
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USAPresident Barack Obama attended a campaign rally in flood-hit North Carolina on Tuesday (Oct 11). He was in Greensboro to whip up Democratic support for the party’s presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Obama could make the difference between Clinton taking North Carolina and a narrow Donald Trump victory. It’s a state Obama narrowly won in 2008
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USANot to be outdone by her late night contemporaries, Samantha Bee addressed Donald Trump’s graphic 2005 comments about women on Monday’s Full Frontal by opening with the following apt words: “Oh yeah, I’m going in on this like a bitch.” In the recently leaked 2005 audio tape, Trump can be heard discussing his attempts to
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump took self-guided tours of pageant dressing rooms, former contestants have claimed. Tasha Dixon, Miss Arizona in 2001, said that Trump just came “waltzing in” while contestants were nude or half-nude as they changed into bikinis, according to CBS Los Angeles. And BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday that four women in the
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USAA leading Catholic advocacy group on Wednesday called for the resignation of Hillary Clinton’s campaign spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri, after hacked emails show Ms. Palmieri and other Clinton allies openly talking about Catholics being “severely backwards” and charging that they don’t know “what the hell they’re talking about.” In its statement, CatholicVote.org said there is now
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Floridians will get one more week, through Tuesday, Oct. 18, to register to vote, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The move could tip the balance of a pivotal swing state as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump make their pitch to voters in the final month of the campaign. After a one hour
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USAIn a night of historic political degradation, Donald Trump explicitly pledged that, if elected, he would investigate and imprison his political opponent. That’s exactly what Nicolas Maduro is doing right now to stay in power in crumbling Venezuela. That’s exactly how Raul Castro handles dissent in Cuba, no matter how peaceful. That’s exactly what Fidel
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The Obama administration has blamed Russia for the email hacks that have created a chronic headache for Hillary Clinton, the latest batch of which, from campaign Chairman John Podesta’s account, was disclosed Wednesday by Wikileaks. The Russian response? Show us the proof. “It’s flattering,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
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International, USADonald Trump’s “deeply unsettling and disturbing” views make him a danger to the world, according to the United Nations human rights chief. Speaking during a news briefing in Geneva on Wednesday, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said: “If Donald Trump is elected on the basis of what he has said
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International, USANewly released emails show former Democratic Party officials offering Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign detailed advice on how to trick “self-righteous” supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders into thinking they won concessions from the party establishment. In the email released Wednesday by WikiLeaks, former party official Mark Alan Siegel is seen offering a proposal to reduce the
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USAThe Jewish Week of New York on Tuesday endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, marking the first time in the publication”s history that it has endorsed a presidential candidate, JTA reports. In an editorial on its website, the newspaper also asserted that Republican candidate Donald Trump “presents a danger to this country” and his campaign “is
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USAAccording to newly-leaked emails by Wikileaks, billionaire Israeli-American businessman Haim Saban, considered one of Hillary Clinton”s close advisors, advised Clinton as far back as 2015 to distance herself from Obama”s Israel policies in order to get Jewish votes. Saban reasoned that, due to the fall in Obama”s popularity among Jewish voters, Clinton needed new rhetoric
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