WASHINGTON — Job growth slowed back to a moderate pace in August, and the nation’s unemployment rate held at 4.9 percent for the third straight month, the government said Friday. The latest jobs report from the Labor Department was largely ho-hum and unlikely to change the prospects for an interest rate hike by the Federal […]
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USACARY, N.C. — Donald Trump can win. Sure, the polls show him lagging behind Hillary Clinton nationally. They find him trailing in many battleground states. And he’s neck and neck in states such as North Carolina that went Republican last time and that he needs desperately. But if the presidential race in its fall rush
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USAWhen most Americans were asleep on Wednesday night, President Barack Obama was speaking to a small group of domestic and foreign scientists and dignitaries in Hawaii. “Welcome to Hawaii. Aloha!” Obama said beginning his brief speech. “It’s not often I get to welcome folks to my home state.” The president spoke on the eve of
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The World We Share, USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump questioned Friday how Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton became enormously wealthy running a charity, which has become the focus of the campaign’s allegation of pay-to-play corruption while she was secretary of state. “The question I always ask is, what product were they selling?
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USABy Ezra Friedlander Everyone seems to be focusing on the candidates for President but not enough on the Vice Presidential contenders. Having the ear of the President is no small matter. In recent memory, vice presidents-think Cheney and Biden-have exercised significant influence, and it would be prudent to assume that the next Vice President will follow
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Middle East, USABy Colleen O’Connor Times of San Diego “How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.” That twisted take on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s love sonnet accurately captures some of America’s stewing rage. The reason? Let me count and/or name them. Ryan Lochte, the Olympic swimmer aka “jerk”/liar, who re-popularized the phrase “Ugly American” and
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USAThe man who revealed the Hillary Clinton email scandal was sentenced on Thursday to 52 months in prison for unauthorized access of a protected computer, and aggravated identity theft. Marcel Lazar, a former Romanian taxi driver, would hack the internet in his spare time, under the handle of “Guccifer.” Lazar, who does not have any
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International, USAIn modern presidential elections, superior grassroots voter outreach can mean the difference between winning and losing so-called battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, and, by extension, the White House. When the primaries wrapped up in early June, Republican Donald Trump was far behind his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton on that front, lacking anything close
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USAVice President Joseph R. Biden on Thursday offered a blunt assessment of Republican Donald Trump, telling a crowd of union workers in the key battleground state of Oho that the billionaire doesn’t have the intelligence or experience to lead the United States. “I don’t believe he’s a bad guy. I just think he is thoroughly,
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International, USAMarine Le Pen, the leader of French conservative party National Front, said Wednesday that a Hillary Clinton presidency in the United States would lead to war and devastation worldwide. “For France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton,” Ms. Le Pen said in an interview with CNN’s Hala Gorani. “Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think
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International, USAJewish voters in the U.S. support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by more than two-to-one, according to a survey released Tuesday by research consultancy Gallup. The survey, which used daily data collected by Gallup between July 1 and August 28, showed that 52 percent of Jews have favorable views of the Democratic nominee, but only
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USABlack Lives Matter accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee of trying to placate activists after a hacker leaked on Wednesday an internal party memo advising candidates on how to handle the movement. The Nov. 9 memo to by former DCCC staffer Troy Perry urged candidates to listen but “don’t offer support for concrete policy positions”;
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USAAfter the New York Post leaked photos on Monday from yet another sexting scandal involving Anthony Weiner, his long-suffering wife Huma Abedin promptly announced their separation, leading some of the world to fly up in arms about the damaging effects of porn. Weiner’s sexting habit and porn might not appear to have an obvious correlation,
On the occasion of the National Park Service’s centennial this summer comes an irreverent question: Are the parks still relevant? Famously christened as America’s “best idea” by writer Wallace Stegner and reaffirmed in Ken Burns’ 2009 PBS documentary, it seems brazen, if not blasphemous, to pose the question. Over the last century, the national park
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