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WASHINGTON — At an event promoting his memoir Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was “stupid” for Donald Trump to single out a judge’s Mexican heritage and said the Republican presidential candidate should apologize and “get on script.” He did not, though, back away from supporting the New York real estate magnate. Instead, […]

Washington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama has called Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as final state primaries were held. Obama congratulated Clinton on winning enough delegates to secure the nomination and called her campaign “historic” and an extension of her life-long fight for middle-class families and children. He praised Sanders for “for

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has estimated that his campaign will need $1.5 billion to compete against Hillary Clinton. Now the finance chair of the Republican Governors Association is predicting that Trump could fall well short of his goal. “Unless he’s willing to write a huge personal check, which is unlikely, I believe Trump will

Top Democrats, including some key Bernie Sanders supporters, want the Vermont senator to concede defeat to Hillary Clinton now that she has all but sewed up the party’s presidential nomination with forceful victories in delegate-rich California and New Jersey as well as two other states. But Sanders says his campaign will soldier on to the

NEW YORK (Press Release) – On the heels of the final primary contests of the 2016 presidential campaign, Bend the Arc Jewish Action announced today a major national expansion of its efforts to defeat Donald Trump. “Last fall, the media was still treating Trump like a joke. But we weren’t laughing. We called out his

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – An Orthodox Jewish woman is suing her former employer the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) after it punished her for observing Passover, considered one of the most important holidays in Judaism. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty joined together with the American Jewish Committee, one of the nation’s leading Jewish advocacy

Bernie Nation is taking it on the chin, and if they need to Sanders’ warriors can lean on my shoulder now that their long road is over. I do understand their pain. How it can feel so unfair. Over! California and New Jersey haven’t even finished voting yet! How can it be over? It’s over

WASHINGTON — No matter your preference of candidate, party or ideology, Tuesday marks a defining moment in the United States. For the first time in 240 years, a woman — Hillary Clinton — has locked up a major party’s nomination for president, and is now within shot of winning the White House itself in November.

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s attempt Tuesday to roll out an anti-poverty plan was quickly overshadowed by Donald Trump’s impolitic assault on an American-born judge’s Mexican heritage. “Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” Ryan told reporters in