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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, who endured catcalls at the GOP convention for pointedly withholding an endorsement of Donald Trump, executed a perfect backflip on Friday. “After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump,” […]

The State Department said Friday it likely has more than 2,800 new emails former Secretary Hillary Clinton never turned over but were recovered by the FBI, and will begin releasing them in batches beginning next month. But only a small percentage will be processed before the election, the department said in court, arguing its resources

A new study, touted as the first-ever state-by-state, county-by-county Jewish population estimate, shows how the Jewish vote could play a crucial role in key battleground states. The study, released Thursday and conducted by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University in suburban Boston, found that in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — one of the areas

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton has to prepare for two different Donald Trumps at the first presidential debate Monday. There’s the scripted opponent who stays on message. And there’s the brash showman who says whatever he wants. Clinton has spent much of the week getting ready for what her aides call the biggest moment

The U.S. Secret Service has reimbursed both Donald Trump and the Hillary Clinton campaign throughout the 2016 election cycle for the cost of traveling with the presidential candidates, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Politico. Such payouts are typical, but Trump’s case is different because his airplane is owned and operated by one

WASHINGTON — If stamina is the deciding factor in the race between two of the oldest candidates ever for the White House, Donald Trump is winning. Likely voters by 53-39 think Trump has more physical stamina for the job than Hillary Clinton, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. Overall, Clinton leads Trump in the election

WASHINGTON — Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive John Stumpf has resigned from a Federal Reserve advisory panel, the latest fallout from the banking giant’s fake-accounts scandal. Stumpf’s move came after five senators called for him not to be reappointed to the Federal Advisory Council, a 12-member body that meets four times a year with

Donald Trump committed perjury. Or he looked into the faces of the Republican faithful and knowingly lied. There is no third option. It has become an accepted reality of this presidential campaign that Trump spins a near-endless series of falsehoods. For months, the media has struggled with this unprecedented situation—a candidate who, unlike other politicians

Kasey Simmons was in the check out line at his local Kroger in Little Elm, Texas when he noticed that the woman placing her items on the conveyor belt in front of him looked like she’d been crying. Dismayed by the idea of someone having a bad day, Kasey stopped the woman before she could

The House’s investigative committee voted Thursday to hold Hillary Clinton’s chief tech staffer in contempt of Congress after Bryan Pagliano failed, for a second time, to show up and testify on his former boss’s secret emails. Mrs. Clinton last year had urged Mr. Pagliano to cooperate with probes into her emails, but he has now