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WASHINGTON — Two polls released Thursday indicated that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has expanded his lead in Texas with just five days to go. A joint poll from NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and Marist College put Trump up over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton 49 percent to 40 percent among likely voters in

MIAMI — Banging his fist and pounding his lectern, President Barack Obama tried Thursday in Miami to conjure a little last-minute political magic for Hillary Clinton, the sort of excitement that twice elected a president of hope who was nevertheless unable to prevent a 2016 presidential race of gloom. “It’s about what can be achieved

WASHINGTON — Even as Donald Trump assails political correctness, insults opponents in harsh late-night tweets and draws bipartisan rebukes for racially tinged insults, his wife vowed Thursday that she would devote her energy as first lady to reducing online bullying and promoting more civil discourse in American society. “Our culture has become too mean and

Election tension appears to be intensifying across the US. A historic black church in Mississippi was burned and spray painted with “ Vote Trump” graffiti only days before the poll. With the the racist movement the Ku Klux Klan now declaring for Donald Trump, President Obama used it to attack the Republican candidate: “If you

Most people are aware of the nauseating fact that in American politics today, money talks far louder than actual policy. Nevertheless, it is always valuable to hear from an insider’s perspective the level of depravity our Democracy is willing to sink for a few extra millions. Congressman Alan Grayson may have failed to win Florida’s

MIAMI — When Donald Trump believes he’s winning, he stays on script. Looks like feels good about Florida. The Trump who marshaled his political army in downtown Miami on Wednesday rattled off a list of touchstone issues in Florida politics: the Herbert Hoover Dike in Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, Homestead Air Reserve Base. He talked

A longtime Clinton ally and donor has a theory about black Republicans: They’re like the Jewish guards in concentration camps who tried to save their own skins by helping the Nazis kill Jews. In a hidden-camera video released Wednesday by Project Veritas Action, author and academic Benjamin R. Barber compared black Republicans to the “Sonderkommandos”

Officials have captured an Iowa man who is suspected of ambushing and killing two Des Moines-area police officers in separate shootings early Wednesday morning. Officials have not given a possible motive for the attack. Scott Michael Greene, 46, was detained without incident on a rural road after flagging down a state Department of Natural Resources