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WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said Monday he plans to push legislation that would allow Wells Fargo & Co. customers to sue the bank over unauthorized accounts opened by employees trying to meet aggressive sales quotas. The escalating scandal also drew the attention of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who in a speech criticized […]

Speaking to a room full of veterans Monday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seemed to suggest soldiers who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) aren’t strong. “When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you’re strong and you can

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court begins hearing cases this week, but none of them looks to be a high-profile legal dispute that will split the eight justices. Here are a few notable legal questions due to be decided in the new term: Insider trading: Is it a crime for people to buy stock based on

PHILADELPHIA — The lights cut out suddenly in the bare-bones storefront in northeast Philadelphia that houses Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign office. But it was prime calling time, so volunteers who spend hours each night contacting voters worked by the light of their cellphones, pleading for support in the dark. The power failure last week, which

ST. LOUIS — A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force against Ferguson, Mo., protesters and violated their civil rights. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey on Friday ruled in favor of summary judgment motions filed by police, police officials, St. Louis County and the City of Ferguson. The

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton (Right) and Republican candidate Donald Trump attend the first presidential debate in New York on Sept 26, 2016. A major of Americans, or 61 percent, say Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate on Monday, found a new Gallup poll. Only 27 percent of Americans think that Republican candidate

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s massive tax write-off in the 1990s shows that he’s a “billion-dollar loser.” “Trump is a billion-dollar loser who won’t release his taxes because they’ll expose him as a spoiled, rich brat who lost the millions he inherited from his father,” the Nevada

WASHINGTON — An evenly divided Supreme Court opens a new term this week with a few dozen mostly low-profile cases. But perhaps the biggest question of the year won’t even be settled by the justices. Voters next month will effectively decide the court’s ideological bent for the next four years and possibly much longer. Not

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a surprise visit Sunday morning, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told the congregation of Charlotte’s Little Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church that the “community is in pain” over the police shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott. Clinton had planned to be in Charlotte a week earlier, but postponed her visit