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Donald Trump said Friday that U.S. officials are allowing immigrants to enter the country illegally so they can vote in the November election. Trump’s views are at odds with election laws that allow only U.S. citizens to be eligible to vote in the presidential election this fall. “They are letting people pour into this country […]

Shortly after I wrote an article for Newsweek about how Donald Trump’s business interests could undermine national security should he be elected president, one of his supporters assaulted me. He used the internet to do it. Throughout my adulthood, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have epilepsy. It’s better controlled

The format was a town hall, just like Sunday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but on Thursday night in New Hampshire Trump immediately and repeatedly batted away the notion that the event had any connection to the upcoming clash with his Democratic opponent. “They were saying this is practice for Sunday. This isn’t

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s laugh is so “phony” and so unnatural that it almost comes off as a “cackle” that would be enough to frighten off trick-or-treaters. The former governor of Arkansas was speaking with Fox News host Martha MacCallum about a column in The Washington Times by

In what is becoming a monthly routine, President Obama granted commutations Thursday to another 102 federal inmates for mostly drug-related crimes. White House counsel Neil Eggleston said the latest commutations are for people “who have demonstrated that they are deserving of a second chance at freedom.” He said the “vast majority” were serving lengthy prison

WASHINGTON — More than 30 former Republican members of Congress issued a scathing open letter Thursday announcing their opposition to Donald Trump and urging fellow Republicans to deny him the White House. The group recounts the GOP presidential candidate’s long list of insults and “lies,” and says his “disgraceful candidacy is indefensible.” “As Republican members

MIAMI — Florida rejected a request Thursday from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief to extend the state’s voter-registration deadline due to Hurricane Matthew. “I’m not going to extend it,” Gov. Rick Scott told reporters in Tallahassee. “Everybody has had a lot of time to register. On top of that, we have lots of opportunities to vote:

GREEN PARK, Mo. — A St. Louis County police officer answering a disturbance call here before dawn Thursday was shot to death by a teenager who was then critically wounded by a back-up officer’s return fire, authorities say. Officer Blake Snyder, 33, was hit once in the chin and pronounced dead at St. Anthony’s Medical

When a 15-year-old girl asked Hillary Clinton how she would heal the damage caused by Donald Trump’s comments about women, Clinton’s answer was a little confusing, sort of contradictory … and completely accurate. “I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look,” the girl,

MIAMI — Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief urged Florida on Thursday to extend its voter-registration deadline because of Hurricane Matthew. Tuesday is last day for new voters to sign up ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. The storm has forced political groups, many of them Democratic-leaning, to cancel planned registration drives in the last, frenzied

Donald Trump has a problem appealing to female voters. So, when asked this week by a Nevada television station about some of his disparaging remarks, he had a terse reply. “A lot of that was done for the purpose of entertainment,” Trump said. “There’s nobody that has more respect for women than I do.” Following

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani is doing what many thought to be impossible: He’s out-Trumping Donald Trump. The former New York mayor is becoming a regular source of over-the-top statements and slams about Democrats, often amplifying and even surpassing Trump in grabbing headlines, if also sometimes confounding fact-checkers — all in the name of promoting Trump.