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Donald Trump does not speak often about his Christian faith, but it’s not a problem for many evangelical voters. A new poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center shows that 78 percent of white evangelical voters would vote for Trump if the election were held today. That’s higher than the 73 percent of evangelicals […]

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton charged Tuesday that the Republican Party, once headed by a president who held the union together, is now led by a man who intentionally stokes divisions for personal gain, as she blasted Donald Trump for “pitting American against American” when the nation needs “a president who can help pull us together,

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The jail inmate who killed two courthouse bailiffs in a sensational shooting that stunned this Lake Michigan shoreline community spent two stints in federal prison for crimes involving guns and pipe bombs and was facing fresh allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a teenage girl and held her against

Newt Gingrich, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate, told Republicans at a closed-door meeting earlier this year that Trump is not a conservative, speaks to voters “at the lowest level of any candidate in either party,” and could lose in a landslide if he didn’t significantly change his approach to campaigning. Gingrich

WASHINGTON — It’s a strange week when Donald Trump — known for his provocations and unconventional behavior — lectures a Supreme Court justice on what’s “highly inappropriate,” and even some of Trump’s most ardent critics have to admit: This time he’s right. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s unprecedented public criticism of the presumed GOP presidential nominee

LOS ANGELES — The chief of the Fresno Police Department took the rare step Wednesday of publicly releasing the body-camera video footage of officers fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old man last month — a shooting that has generated fierce protests amid a roiling national debate over police brutality. Chief Jerry Dyer said at a news

MIAMI — Democrat Hillary Clinton has lost her lead over Republican Donald Trump in the crucial swing state of Florida, a new poll shows, as voters question whether she is trustworthy. Trump is now ahead of Clinton by 42-39 percent, according to the Quinnipiac University poll. A month ago, the same survey had Clinton up

CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has withered to 3 percentage points, signaling their battle for the White House has become too close to call heading into the two major-party national conventions, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, now leads Trump by 42 to 39 percent in

Sen. Bernard Sanders said he doubts he’s going to be selected as Hillary Clinton’s running mate but said he’d like to see the “most progressive person possible” in the role. Asked on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday if he’s open to being Mrs. Clinton’s running mate, Mr. Sanders said: “That issue has not been raised

LOS ANGELES — Javier Soch and Seth Ortega went to downtown Fullerton, Calif., on Tuesday hoping to hunt monsters on the new Pokemon Go smartphone game. Instead, the Marine Corps veterans helped police in the Orange County city catch a man who was bothering children at a playground. Investigators later learned the man was wanted