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On Friday, HBO released a 37-minute long interview between Bill Maher and President Barack Obama. The piece, which aired less than a week before the 2016 Presidential Election, was the culmination of a months-long campaign for Maher to have the president on his program. Over the years, Maher has generally praised the president with some […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory was in a fight for his political life. His ardent defense of House Bill 2, a law deemed so discriminatory by some sports leagues that they pulled more than a dozen championship events from the state, had left him with strongly unfavorable ratings from moderates. With a

Veteran pollster John Zogby sent out an “Uh-oh” alert Saturday night noting that heading into Sunday, two key voting groups that had shifted toward Barack Obama by the Saturday before the 2012 election – and that gave him his landslide victory – were not moving Democrat Hillary Clinton’s way four days before Tuesday’s election. “Donald

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton dipped below 270 electoral votes in CNN’s electoral map Friday as Republican nominee Donald Trump makes a late surge for the White House. The most recent national polls have Trump within one or two points of Clinton, and well within the margin of error. Fox News released a poll Friday, with

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was rushed off stage by the Secret Service at a rally in Nevada on Saturday night in a tense campaign moment just days before the 2016 presidential election. Secret Service agents rush Donald Trump off stage at Nevada rally. https://t.co/G4isSw41BA https://t.co/daEjQ9NHNz — CNN (@CNN) November 6, 2016 Trump later returned

Linda Reedy has long been convinced that voter fraud was afoot, with ballots cast even by people who were not American citizens. But it wasn’t until after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump began to allege rigged elections and asked supporters — particularly in hotly contested battleground states — to monitor polling stations that Reedy, of

TAMPA, Fla. — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump distilled the campaign styles they’ve showcased for more than a year into a final blitz of intense campaigning as they wrapped up their pitches for the White House. Clinton, true to type, chose a tightly disciplined path, holding rallies and events in Florida and Pennsylvania on Saturday

Washington (dpa) – The following are the positions of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump on abortion, same-sex marriage, the death penalty and crime. ABORTION Clinton is against abolishing or limiting the right to abortion. She backs continued funding for Planned Parenthood, a non-profit reproductive health and family planning organization that also

Lisa Bloom, the lawyer for a woman who would only identify herself as Jane Doe for much of the last year, confirmed on Friday that her client had dropped her lawsuit against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Bloom, daughter of famed attorney Gloria Allred, confirmed the news on Facebook. “Jane Doe instructed us to dismiss

The Supreme Court cleared the way for Arizona Republican leaders to enforce a new state law that makes it felony for anyone other than family members and caregivers to deliver mail-in ballots to polling places. The court in a brief order with no listed dissents blocked a ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of

From rap stars to the first black US president, high-powered supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton launched a final bid Friday night to bring out the black vote as one of America’s most divisive presidential campaigns draws to a close. Hip-hop power couple Beyoncé and Jay Z stumped for Clinton Friday night in a last-minute

President Obama took the unusual step Saturday of criticizing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania for the endangered incumbent’s use of the president’s image in a campaign ad. Mr. Obama objected to the Toomey campaign’s use of video of the president praising the senator in 2013 for his support for expanded background checks on gun