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In what is becoming a monthly routine, President Obama granted commutations Thursday to another 102 federal inmates for mostly drug-related crimes. White House counsel Neil Eggleston said the latest commutations are for people “who have demonstrated that they are deserving of a second chance at freedom.” He said the “vast majority” were serving lengthy prison […]

WASHINGTON — More than 30 former Republican members of Congress issued a scathing open letter Thursday announcing their opposition to Donald Trump and urging fellow Republicans to deny him the White House. The group recounts the GOP presidential candidate’s long list of insults and “lies,” and says his “disgraceful candidacy is indefensible.” “As Republican members

MIAMI — Florida rejected a request Thursday from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief to extend the state’s voter-registration deadline due to Hurricane Matthew. “I’m not going to extend it,” Gov. Rick Scott told reporters in Tallahassee. “Everybody has had a lot of time to register. On top of that, we have lots of opportunities to vote:

GREEN PARK, Mo. — A St. Louis County police officer answering a disturbance call here before dawn Thursday was shot to death by a teenager who was then critically wounded by a back-up officer’s return fire, authorities say. Officer Blake Snyder, 33, was hit once in the chin and pronounced dead at St. Anthony’s Medical

When a 15-year-old girl asked Hillary Clinton how she would heal the damage caused by Donald Trump’s comments about women, Clinton’s answer was a little confusing, sort of contradictory … and completely accurate. “I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look,” the girl,

MIAMI — Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief urged Florida on Thursday to extend its voter-registration deadline because of Hurricane Matthew. Tuesday is last day for new voters to sign up ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. The storm has forced political groups, many of them Democratic-leaning, to cancel planned registration drives in the last, frenzied

Donald Trump has a problem appealing to female voters. So, when asked this week by a Nevada television station about some of his disparaging remarks, he had a terse reply. “A lot of that was done for the purpose of entertainment,” Trump said. “There’s nobody that has more respect for women than I do.” Following

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani is doing what many thought to be impossible: He’s out-Trumping Donald Trump. The former New York mayor is becoming a regular source of over-the-top statements and slams about Democrats, often amplifying and even surpassing Trump in grabbing headlines, if also sometimes confounding fact-checkers — all in the name of promoting Trump.

Bill Cosby’s lawyers have launched their most comprehensive effort to date to have the sexual assault charges against him dropped, arguing that various factors “created a perfect storm of prejudice, bias and delay” that requires the dismissal of the charges against the entertainer. The motion, filed Thursday in the Pennsylvania court where Cosby is facing

The Trump train isn’t off the tracks — but it’s wobbling. Republican nominee Donald Trump has ceded ground to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in both state and national polls ahead of Sunday’s second presidential debate. This might be because of a strong first debate performance from Clinton, who convincingly won the event in the

It wasn’t just 1995. Five years of tax information from the 1970s that Donald Trump provided to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety show mismanagement and losses that could have pushed him into personal bankruptcy—but for the largesse of his Dad. The recent report in The New York Times that a loss