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CLEVELAND — The day before Republicans were to open a convention meant to serve as a fresh opportunity to redefine Donald Trump, organizers had to delay their long-awaited preview of the gathering so as not to collide with President Barack Obama’s remarks to the nation about yet another shocking act of violence. This time it […]

The aura of Donald Trump – such as it is – largely began with the autobiography “The Art of the Deal,” a work that has defined the real estate mogul’s public person. But the man who served as a ghostwriter for Trump’s 1987 screed has come out publicly as an ardent critic of the now

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren is the only one among Hillary Clinton’s oft-mentioned potential running mates who is well known, but the Massachusetts senator also happens to be the most polarizing of the group, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. The others — Housing Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Sen. Amy

WASHINGTON – It was just another week in Donald Trump’s (white) America First campaign. At least twice, Trump alleged that people have called for a “moment of silence” for the madman who killed five police officers in Dallas at a Black Lives Matter protest. It was an incendiary accusation, bound to stir racial hatred. Like

Gavin Eugene Long The shooter who gunned down three Baton Rouge law-enforcement officers and injured three more has ties with the Nation of Islam. Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri apparently coincided his 29th birthday – July 17, 1987 – with his rampage. In his extensive online presence, which included tweets, self-published books, YouTube

The man who shot and killed three police officers in Baton Rouge has been identified as 29-year-old Gavin Long, two law enforcement sources told CNN. Long died in a shootout with police following the incident. He reportedly carried the attack on his birthday, having been born on July 17, 1987. Authorities believe two other shooters

UPDATED President Obama was briefed Sunday on the shooting deaths of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – the second major attack on law enforcement officers in the U.S. in 10 days. Mr. Obama, who was criticized for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement last week at a memorial service for five assassinated police

Falcons minority owner Warrick Dunn, a native of Baton Rouge, La., is having a difficult time dealing with the police shootings in his former home town on Sunday. Dunn’s mother, a Baton Rouge police officer, was shot and killed when he was an 18-year senior in high school. Dunn has issued a statement about the

The head of the Cleveland police union said Sunday that President Obama has “blood on his hands” after the murders of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “It is reprehensible. And the president of the United States has blood on his hands, and it will not be able to become washed off,” said

DALLAS — Micah Johnson left Texas for Afghanistan at 22, outgoing and eager to be a part of something important. Eight months later, Johnson returned home a different man, ostracized by many of his comrades and increasingly alone. Aside from the strain of war, Johnson’s time overseas included a pivotal episode that started with a

Three police officers were shot to death Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. One shooter is dead and two others may still be at large, authorities said. Around 9 a.m., Baton Rouge police officers and East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputies were attacked on Airline Highway, less than a mile from the Baton Rouge Police Department’s headquarters,