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The lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage across the United States said Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is no friend of LGBTQ citizens despite his recent overtures to that community. James Obergefell, a real estate agent turned activist, dismissed Mr. Trump’s vow last week at the Republican National […]

PHILADELPHIA — Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank gave a scathing speech at the Democratic National Convention’s LGBT Caucus on Tuesday afternoon, aimed at “Bernie or Bust”-ers who vowed to not vote for Hillary Clinton. Frank, who was one of the first openly gay people in Congress, said he believed it was his and other Democrats’

PHILADELPHIA – Just hours after Republicans mocked Democrats for avoiding talking about the Islamic State at their convention, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright deleted two references to the terrorist group from her prepared remarks. In the remarks passed out to reporters, Mrs. Albright was to say that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is trusted

Despite leading in some recent polls, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may receive a serious challenge from Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who has seen an uptick in the polls from presumably conservative voters. A CNN/ORC International poll conducted earlier this month had Johnson as high as 13 percent. Elections are decided by electoral votes, not

A Jewish congressman from Tennessee on Tuesday called on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffers whose leaked emails questioned Bernie Sanders” religiosity to be fired. “For a party to question his religion, or lack thereof, as a way to defeat that person, those people should resign and if they don’t resign they should be fired,”

PHILADELPHIA — After a rousing speech from her husband and a musical flourish from Alicia Keys, along came the nominee. Hillary Clinton appeared Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention via video stream, figuratively breaking through a montage of all 44 male presidents. “I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling,”

PHILADELPHIA – Diehard supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders stormed media tents and staged a sit-in Tuesday night minutes after Hillary Clinton officially claimed the party’s presidential nomination, injecting another round of drama into the convention and pouring cold water on claims Democrats are fully uniting behind their White House nominee. Hundreds of Sanders backers, most

The t-shirt Tony Silva wore said it all: “Spoiler alert: Hillary wins.” Silva, a Florida delegate, along with many others here at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia watched with a sense of awe, relief and exasperation on Tuesday as Clinton became the first woman in American history to be nominated to a major political

PHILADELPHIA — Can Bernie Sanders voters come to trust Hillary Clinton? The answer could decide whether she wins the White House. Sanders’ convention supporters are angry over their treatment, suspicious of a system that seemed designed to thwart them and despondent over their choices in November. They view Clinton as too beholden to corporate interests,

PHILADELPHIA — As President Barack Obama prepares to address the Democratic National Convention, he seems to be putting the party on notice: Donald Trump can win. “Anything is possible,” Obama told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie in an interview to air Wednesday. “It is the nature of democracy that until those votes are cast and the American

Decades later, it’s hard to remember how battered Bill Clinton was after the 1992 primaries. He had secured the nomination but his candidacy was marred by his efforts to avoid serving in Vietnam and allegations, later confirmed, of extramarital affairs. It looked like he was heading for a joyless convention in New York. But events

A passionate Hillary Clinton supporter, Eva Longoria took the Democratic National Convention stage Monday night in Philadelphia to introduce New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and directly address Donald Trump, taking aim at his June 2015 remarks that Mexicans immigrants are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” “I’m from a small town in South Texas,

PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton made American history Tuesday night, becoming the first woman ever nominated to lead a major-party ticket into the fall campaign for president. Cheered instead of booed, as she was Monday, Clinton officially claimed the Democratic nomination after a suspense-less 90-minute roll call vote at the party’s national convention. The result was