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WASHINGTON — A sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives by Democratic members stretched into Wednesday night and appeared likely to continue throughout the day Thursday as the protesters turned to Periscope and Facebook Live to broadcast their demands for a vote on legislation to restrict gun purchases by suspected terrorists. C-SPAN, the […]

At times, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign resembles an optical illusion: The longer you stare at it, the more you start to wonder exactly what you’re looking at. His campaign’s latest financial disclosure filing drove this point home when it became public on Monday. As journalists pored over the data contained in that Federal Election Commission

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made a bold pitch to supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday. “We’re asking Bernie Sanders voters to join our movement so together we can fix the system for all Americans,” Trump said during a speech in New York City. Sanders has not officially dropped out of the

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump attempted to relaunch his troubled campaign Wednesday with a scripted speech fusing his anti-trade economic message with a series of attacks on Hillary Clinton that ran the gamut from harsh to unprovable to false. It was in many ways two speeches, with one designed to show a more disciplined politician who

As millions of people were losing their homes in the depth of the recession, instructors at Trump University were urging students to seek out anxious or desperate sellers to reap a financial windfall, according to recently released documents in the federal class-action lawsuit against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. The now-defunct for-profit real estate

Democrats staged a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday to protest the Republican-controlled Congress’ inaction on gun control legislation in the wake of multiple mass shootings, such as the one in Orlando, Florida, this month. However, Americans may have had a hard time following the action on Capitol Hill in

The Hill: (This post will be updated as news unfolds.) Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor to push for action on gun control legislation. More than two dozen Democrats were participating in the sit-in shortly before noon, with some lawmakers seated cross-legged on the floor. Democrats have been pressing for action on

Accusations of anti-Semitism have arisen in the congressional race for New York’s 13th district. Last week Assemblyman Keith Wright shared an article accusing an opponent of not helping his district because the opponent is Jewish. Councilman Mark Levine accused Wright of using anti-Jewish hatred in an effort to appeal to Dominican voters. Levine’s office translated

In an announcement many saw coming, Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday said he will seek re-election to a second term, just three months after he dropped out of the Republican presidential race and implied he would leave politics when his role ends in January. His team released a statement Wednesday morning, two days before