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White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Wednesday played down allegations that Melania Trump, wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, plagiarized a speech given by First Lady Michelle Obama. Side-by-side comparisons revealed that lines from Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention appeared to have been lifted directly from Obama”s speech in 2008, with few […]

CLEVELAND — The balloons have dropped, the smiling family members have embraced, and Donald J. Trump has accepted the Republican nomination for the presidency. Here are our first impressions from Trump’s 75-minute address. — A tempered tone Trump’s improbable run has been propelled by the aura of unpredictability; his seemingly improvised, and often outlandish, riffs

The first three nights of the Republican National Convention have been an exercise in anti-climax, an incoherent mess where the good parts (the Trump kids) have been overshadowed by weirdness (Ted Cruz’s truculence), irrelevance (a retired general’s weak cheers of USA) and more irrelevance (what does the soap opera star who grows avocados have to

CLEVELAND – A defiant Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday refused to commit to voting for Donald Trump in the fall election, saying the pledge he took to support the eventual GOP presidential nominee was voided when Mr. Trump started attacking his family on the campaign trail. During an at-times contentious event with the Texas delegation

President Obama praised Muslim Americans Thursday as patriots and heroes, and decried an increase of violence against Muslims in the U.S. “This is a difficult time for Muslim Americans,” Mr. Obama said at a White House reception marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr. “Let’s be clear, Muslim Americans are as patriotic, as integrated, as

CLEVELAND — Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel made history Thursday night when he said he was gay from the podium of the Republican National Convention. “Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all I am proud to be an American,”

Philadelphia’s police union is blasting Hillary Clinton for inviting relatives of victims of police shootings to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, but failing to include relatives of slain police officers. John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was “shocked and saddened” by the planned choice

CLEVELAND — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ended June with more than $20 million in the bank, according to federal campaign finance filings, as he rebounded from earlier dismal fundraising efforts. But Trump still significantly lags behind Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in raising cash and spending to build a general-election campaign apparatus. Trump fulfilled his