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Vice President Joseph R. Biden is taking aim at Donald Trump’s energy and stamina, wagering that the GOP presidential nominee couldn’t make it through a round of golf carrying his own bag. “I’ll bet he couldn’t carry his bag 18 holes on one of his own golf courses, speaking of energy,” Mr. Biden said in

Americans remain deeply polarized on climate change, but broadly support increased reliance on solar and wind energy, a new poll has found. The partisan split extends “across a host of beliefs about the expected effects of climate change, actions that can address changes to the Earth’s climate, and trust and credibility in the work of

WASHINGTON — A new poll of Pennsylvania voters found Democrat Hillary Clinton opening up a 10 percentage point lead over Republican Donald Trump, but a dead heat in the state’s critical U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Pat Toomey and Democrat Katie McGinty. The Monmouth University Poll released Tuesday found Clinton with 50 percent support

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michelle Obama told supporters Tuesday at the Charlotte Convention Center that being president puts someone under the “hottest, harshest spotlight there is” and that Republican candidate Donald Trump isn’t suited for the job. Entering the stage to the Stevie Wonder song, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours,” Obama said she has been “so

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was furious when a New York Times story chronicled his unsavory behavior with women. “False, malicious and libelous,” he tweeted. “No wonder,” he added, the paper is failing. Yet during the first presidential debate, Donald Trump cited no less than the same New York Times to bolster his argument that NATO

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager on Tuesday said “everybody understands and believes” the president is a “role model” for the country’s children, a day after GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte said she “misspoke” when she said Republican nominee Donald Trump qualified as a role model. “I think he’s broken a lot of the bounds and norms of,

HAVERFORD, Pa. — With a week before Pennsylvania’s voter-registration deadline for the November election, Hillary Clinton stopped in Delaware County on Tuesday for an intimate town hall before a friendly audience and promoted her pro-family platform. Speaking at the Haverford Community Recreation and Environmental Center and accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and actress Elizabeth

WASHINGTON — The bombshell leak of portions of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax returns show that he declared a minuscule wage income that year for a man of his wealth and corporate responsibilities. The New York Times published a report late Saturday based on three leaked pages of Trump’s 1995 state tax returns that showed a

Bob Woodward, the famed investigative reporter who worked alongside Carl Bernstein in breaking the 1970s Watergate scandal, criticized Hillary Clinton’s “self-satisfaction” after her performance at the first presidential debate against Donald Trump, saying the Democratic nominee should dial it back and learn some humility. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” the 73-year-old Washington Post editor was

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police released a security video of the chase that lead up to the fatal police shooting of a black 18-year-old in South L.A. over the weekend, one of two shootings by officers that sparked protests across the city. The video shows a young man in a blue sweatshirt, who police

RALEIGH, N.C. — The International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro denied Donald Trump’s request to hold an event at the museum two weeks ago — and has faced retaliation from his supporters because of it, according to the museum’s CEO. John Swaine said the Trump campaign was trying to plan the Republican nominee’s

There’s a scene in last year’s Beach Boys biopic “Love and Mercy” that depicts the group’s creative genius, Brian Wilson, working feverishly on the music for the band’s masterpiece, “Pet Sounds.” During the recording sessions, one of the hired musicians hits a wrong note and apologizes profusely to Wilson, who was a renowned perfectionist. But

Vice President Joe Biden hit the airwaves Tuesday in his Democratic Party role of middle-class champion, boiling down Republican Donald Trump’s income tax issue the way he hopes voters will see it. Biden blasted Trump for working the system to avoid paying federal income taxes — and especially for bragging about it. “Since when does