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Hillary Clinton says she cannot remember whether she ever joked about killing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during her tenure as secretary of state. The former secretary of state was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, campaigning when a journalist asked her about a report that she once mentioned sending a drone to kill Mr. Assange, who has used

A synagogue in Florida was vandalized on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday, according to media reports. Amid the two-day holiday – which celebrates the creation of the world in the Jewish religion – vandals spray painted Sunday “Free Palestine” across signs and areas of the Chabad of Parkland synagogue in

PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Donald Trump on Tuesday seized upon President Bill Clinton’s criticism of some of the fallout from President Barack Obama’s signature health care law as “the craziest thing in the world.” Trump said Clinton was simply being honest when he said a day earlier that people who barely miss out on qualifying

Yahoo secretly built software in 2015 that let it search the incoming emails of its hundreds of millions of users on behalf of the U.S. government, Reuters reported Tuesday. The tech titan’s previously unreported use of custom software to eavesdrop on its users was done without the knowledge of its chief security officer and despite

Just a few weeks ago, the world focused on US Secretary of State, John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov. With two months until the end of Obama’s Presidency, the United States engaged in a diplomatic battle. After drawn-out negotiations they reached an agreement with Russia on 10th September and with it came hope.

Hillary Clinton continues to outpace Donald Trump in spending on television ads — a trend that has moved into the fall as voters begin to cast ballots. Clinton and her allies, such as the super PAC Priorities USA Action, are outspending Trump and his supporters by a 4-to-1 margin with five weeks until Election Day,

Vice President Joseph R. Biden is taking aim at Donald Trump’s energy and stamina, wagering that the GOP presidential nominee couldn’t make it through a round of golf carrying his own bag. “I’ll bet he couldn’t carry his bag 18 holes on one of his own golf courses, speaking of energy,” Mr. Biden said in

Americans remain deeply polarized on climate change, but broadly support increased reliance on solar and wind energy, a new poll has found. The partisan split extends “across a host of beliefs about the expected effects of climate change, actions that can address changes to the Earth’s climate, and trust and credibility in the work of

WASHINGTON — A new poll of Pennsylvania voters found Democrat Hillary Clinton opening up a 10 percentage point lead over Republican Donald Trump, but a dead heat in the state’s critical U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Pat Toomey and Democrat Katie McGinty. The Monmouth University Poll released Tuesday found Clinton with 50 percent support

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michelle Obama told supporters Tuesday at the Charlotte Convention Center that being president puts someone under the “hottest, harshest spotlight there is” and that Republican candidate Donald Trump isn’t suited for the job. Entering the stage to the Stevie Wonder song, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours,” Obama said she has been “so