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WASHINGTON — America’s swing states, where presidential elections are won and lost, are swinging to Hillary Clinton. Yes, there are still 94 days until the election, and anything can happen. But so far the Democratic nominee is gaining where it matters most, notably in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and elsewhere. “The map is shrinking,” said […]

LOS ANGELES — A federal grand jury Friday indicted former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on charges of obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators concerning operations at the troubled county jail system. The charges come days after Baca withdrew an earlier guilty plea to a charge of lying during an FBI investigation into

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ended her 244-day run without a news conference Friday, taking questions on topics ranging from her email scandal to her friendship with African-Americans before a crowd of black and Latino journalists in Washington. Clinton apologized anew for using a private email server during her time as secretary of

President Barack Obama celebrated his 55th birthday the way most middle-aged men do: with a three hour briefing at the Pentagon followed questions about ISIS and Donald Trump, the Zika virus and commuting the sentences of hundreds of prisoners. Sure, it wasnt’ the standard cake-and-a-new-tie kind of birthday for the father of two, but it

WASHINGTON — Here’s a prediction: Hillary Clinton’s latest four-and-a-half minute answer to questions about whether she mishandled classified email is not going to satisfy her critics. Clinton was asked Friday to explain whether she had misrepresented the findings of FBI Director James Comey when she seemed to say in a Fox News interview last week