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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump scaled back his grandiose plan for tax cuts while proposing more benefits for lower-income households in a speech Thursday, but experts say the numbers in his newly revised economic growth blueprint still don’t add up. In his most detailed economic plan to date, the Republican presidential nominee essentially halved the amount […]

In a statement released Thursday night, Donald Trump’s campaign moved to take the “birther” issue off the plate by releasing a statement acknowledging that Barack Obama was born in the U.S. and even taking credit for solving the issue. The statement accuses the Hillary Clinton campaign of bringing up the issue in the first place

Gun lovers now have a dating website dedicated to them. Concealed Carry Match allows its users to meet other members who have similar views on Second Amendment rights. The development is potentially controversial, considering the anti-gun rhetoric that has been doing the rounds following the spate of shootings in the United States in the recent

Donald Trump said on Thursday he “would absolutely sever” ties to the Trump Organization if he were elected president. The Republican presidential nominee was responding to questions about a Newsweek article on his company and its foreign connections during a phone-in appearance on the television program Fox and Friends. Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald reported on the

FORT WORTH, Texas — Republican Donald Trump is keeping a single-digit lead with Texas’ likely voters, but Democrat Hillary Clinton is close and voters think she would do a better job on foreign policy and education, according to results of a Texas Lyceum poll announced Thursday. Trump rode a 35-percent lead among Anglo voters to

Missouri’s Republican-led legislature has significantly expanded gun rights in the state, establishing a public “stand your ground” right and allowing for permitless concealed carry of firearms. Lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the sweeping gun rights law late Wednesday. The legislation does away with training and permit requirements for concealed carry in the

You would have thought that by now, Donald Trump’s deplorables would have gotten over Hillary Clinton’s diss. But they can’t let it go. Apparently, “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” deplorables are better at talking smack than taking it. Clinton’s comment about putting half of Trump’s supporters into “the basket of deplorables” isn’t even harsh. I

The longer this campaign lasts, the more I’m ready to believe Donald Trump is the Slim Shady of modern political journalism. He’s been sent here to destroy us. Either that, or he’s glommed onto the fatal weakness at its heart — and is doing whatever he can to let it destroy itself. Whatever the case,