WASHINGTON — If stamina is the deciding factor in the race between two of the oldest candidates ever for the White House, Donald Trump is winning. Likely voters by 53-39 think Trump has more physical stamina for the job than Hillary Clinton, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. Overall, Clinton leads Trump in the election […]
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USAWASHINGTON — Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive John Stumpf has resigned from a Federal Reserve advisory panel, the latest fallout from the banking giant’s fake-accounts scandal. Stumpf’s move came after five senators called for him not to be reappointed to the Federal Advisory Council, a 12-member body that meets four times a year with
Donald Trump committed perjury. Or he looked into the faces of the Republican faithful and knowingly lied. There is no third option. It has become an accepted reality of this presidential campaign that Trump spins a near-endless series of falsehoods. For months, the media has struggled with this unprecedented situation—a candidate who, unlike other politicians
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USABy Edwin Black DETROIT, Michigan — Of the many local and regional Holocaust memorials and museums scattered across America, one stands out among the best: The Holocaust Memorial Center in suburban Detroit. For me, the legacy and future of the institution is personal. Correctly billed as America’s “first Holocaust museum,” the Detroit enterprise was conceived
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid criticized the U.S. government on Thursday for not doing enough to end female genital mutilation (FGM) around the world or to spread awareness of the practice within the U.S. “We as a federal government have done very little” to bring an end to the practice, Reid said during a press
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — Demonstrating the growing anxiety in Washington about Nicaragua, the U.S. House of Representatives issued a scathing rebuke of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian push for power. Democrats and Republicans in the lower chamber unanimously supported a call, led by Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Wednesday night to restrict the Ortega government’s access to
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International, USAKasey Simmons was in the check out line at his local Kroger in Little Elm, Texas when he noticed that the woman placing her items on the conveyor belt in front of him looked like she’d been crying. Dismayed by the idea of someone having a bad day, Kasey stopped the woman before she could
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USAThe House’s investigative committee voted Thursday to hold Hillary Clinton’s chief tech staffer in contempt of Congress after Bryan Pagliano failed, for a second time, to show up and testify on his former boss’s secret emails. Mrs. Clinton last year had urged Mr. Pagliano to cooperate with probes into her emails, but he has now
In a time-honored American political tradition, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton paid a visit to “Between Two Ferns,” the mock talk show hosted by Zach Galifianakis. In the clip, released Thursday by Funny or Die but recorded Sept. 9, the day Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia, Galifianakis asks the former secretary of state a series
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASAN JOSE, Calif. — Yahoo has reportedly been struck by a massive hack that could compromise hundreds of millions of its users’ accounts, according to Recode, which quotes “several sources close to the situation.” Yahoo did not immediately respond to The Mercury News or to Recode’s Kara Swisher, who broke the story early Thursday morning.
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International, USAGOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday indicated he’d prefer a debate moderator who takes more of a hands-off approach and lets the candidates take each other on if someone slips up. “You’re debating somebody and if she makes a mistake, or if I make a mistake, we’ll take each on,” Mr. Trump said on
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USAROXBURY, Conn. — Police are investigating the death of the son of actress Mia Farrow, who was found gravely injured in his car along Route 67 in Connecticut on Wednesday afternoon. State troopers responded to the scene around 12:45 p.m. and found Thaddeus Wilk Farrow, 27, suffering from a life-threatening injury. He was taken to
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton appears to have survived one of her worst stretches on the presidential campaign, including concerns about her health, with her lead intact in some key battleground states, several new polls indicate. Surveys released this week delivered good news to Donald Trump in some states, Clinton others. But the balance continues to
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USAWhen Greta Morina sees images of Aleppo on TV, she thinks of her hometown, Pristina. “It makes you flash back. It’s intense,” Morina says. “You’re hearing gunshots, bombs being dropped, you smell smoke. You’re seeing groups of people carrying their belongings, their children all into packed tents.” Morina is now 22. She became a refugee
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