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New York (dpa) – The venue for the first TV debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton has been changed from Ohio to New York. The debate will be held September 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, about an hour’s drive outside New York City, the university said Tuesday. The debate originally was […]

CLEVELAND – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that every Republican who’s not working for Donald Trump is working for Hillary Clinton – and hinted he could engage in a bit of an “I told you so” to GOP holdouts like Jeb Bush and John Kasich if Mrs. Clinton is elected. “This is not

CLEVELAND – Tuesday was supposed to be jobs nights at the RNC. The official theme of the evening was “Make America Work Again.” It was right there, on all the signs. But the real theme of the night-and a hint of the next four months to come-became clear when the speakers kicked off. You might

CLEVELAND – House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, hoping to unite a clearly divided GOP, offered a full-throated defense of his party’s ideas late Tuesday, saying the only way to fight poverty, repeal Obamacare and offer a “better way” to America is to banish a “third Obama term” by dismissing Hillary Clinton and linking arms with

CLEVELAND — For the first time this week, police threatened a group of demonstrators with arrest, after a rowdy crowd, some wearing masks, sprinted through the streets of downtown Cleveland in a cat-and-mouse game with officers on bicycles. The protest, Tuesday afternoon, which seemed to have splintered from a larger march that started at Public

CLEVELAND — Ohio Gov. John Kasich is all over town this week, except inside the Republican convention hall downtown. Kasich, a Republican, has taken the rare and impolitic step of boycotting his party’s convention in his home state, drawing scorn from party nominee (and former primary rival) Donald Trump’s campaign. Suffice it to say he’s

For all the talk of the 2016 Republican National Convention being a disaster, here in Cleveland it certainly doesn’t seem that way. The delegates have been boisterous at their hotels, and at a recent party full of Washington insiders, the mood wasn’t grim, even after Melania Trump’s plagiarism snafu. “[Donald Trump’s] only 3 percent down,”

Cleveland, Ohio (dpa) – Donald Trump took the reins Tuesday of the Republican Party as delegates to its party convention in Cleveland, Ohio, officially threw their support behind the brash New York businessman as their presidential candidate. A state-by-state roll call vote recording the results of state primaries and caucuses culminated with Trump’s home state

Former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson took the stage of the Republican National Convention Tuesday night and came out swinging against Hillary Clinton and her practice of “deception.” But before that, he needed to make one thing clear. “I’m not politically correct, and I hate political correctness,” he proclaimed. “It’s time for us to stand

LOS ANGELES — Since he lost his TV reporting job last year, Jarrett Hill has been looking for his next opportunity. It presented itself in an unexpected way. Hill was sitting at a corner table Monday night in a Culver City Starbucks, drinking a venti iced coffee and watching the Republican National Convention on an