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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has released a redacted version of its “playbook” for the lethal U.S. drone program, a booklet of presidential guidelines that sets legal standards for deciding whom to kill, where and under what circumstances. The document was drawn up in May 2013, after President Barack Obama promised more transparency and oversight […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Friday she did nothing wrong as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, but resigned to avoid becoming a distraction as Hillary Clinton was about to become the party’s presidential nominee. Despite the critical verdicts delivered by cable TV talking heads, supporters of defeated presidential candidate Bernie

Neither the Libertarian nor Green parties are guaranteed a space in this year’s presidential debates, a federal court ruled Friday, dealing a blow to their candidates, who were counting on being able to get onto the stage in order to boost their long-shot bids. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ruled that the commission on presidential

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican rival Donald Trump has narrowed to less than 3 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. Polls released just at the beginning of the week found that Clinton had a larger lead, ranging from 7% in a CBS poll to as high as

I spoke to Dr. Jill Stein just days before she received the Green Party’s nomination for president. A Harvard-trained doctor, Stein also ran for the presidency in 2012, when she received about a half-million votes. Today, though, she hopes to pick up votes from many of the progressives who felt the Bern and have no

America’s election is at risk of being stolen: That, in essence, is what some news reports, as well as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his allies, have been suggesting lately. The threat could come from a variety of places, some say. Many have suggested that Russia, suspected to be behind the recent hack of

GREEN BAY, Wis. — With no prominent Wisconsin Republicans on hand, GOP nominee Donald Trump limped into Wisconsin on Friday and belatedly endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan and 2008 nominee Sen. John McCain, trying to heal the wounds of a rough week of party infighting. “I fully support and endorse Paul Ryan,” Trump said Friday,

With Donald Trump plummeting in the polls and Hillary Clinton registering high negatives, the Libertarian Party ticket has a rare opportunity: to be represented in the presidential debates for the first time since 1992. That opportunity has been underscored by a new Fox News poll that shows the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, Gary Johnson, the

Predicting that she can succeed where President Obama failed, Hillary Clinton on Friday said flatly that she will be able to “force” the Republican-led House to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill, including a path to citizenship, if she becomes president. Speaking at a journalists’ conference in Washington, the Democratic presidential nominee said she believes

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s standing among key voter groups has steadily dropped for more than a week, erasing the lead the Republican nominee once had in the presidential contest, according to the latest findings from the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times national tracking poll of the race. What’s striking about the trend is not Hillary Clinton’s

No American woman has yet obtained the highest office in the land, but many certainly have tried. Hillary Clinton has become the first woman in U.S. history to win the nomination of a major political party, on July 26 at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Before that, during her first bid for the White

There’s no telling where Donald Trump’s alleged fraudulent voters will cast their ballots —10 times each! But predicting a “rigged” election is one of the red herrings Trump threw out as he campaigned through the swing states of Ohio, Virginia and Florida during a week in which top Republican military leaders publicly voiced concern about