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CHICAGO — Gannett announced Tuesday it was pulling its offer for Tronc, ending a six-month pursuit of the Chicago-based company that publishes, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. A spokesman for Gannett said: “While we have great respect for the Tronc employees and properties, and while we believed that the acquisition […]

DENVER – Donald Trump’s momentum with gay Republicans grew Tuesday with the endorsement of the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans, the latest affiliate to defy the national organization’s refusal to back a presidential candidate. The Colorado chapter joins state groups in Georgia and Texas as well as those in Los Angeles, Miami, Cleveland and Orange County

DALLAS — Wearing an orange T-shirt and an “I voted” sticker, Randy Smith walked to the podium at Dallas County Commissioners Court on Tuesday to protest what he sees as a grave injustice. For close to 20 years, Smith, 43, worked as an appointed Democratic Party election judge, his only current job, supervising a polling

A new round of WikiLeaks documents released Tuesday reveal a March 2015 exchange between Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and confidant Cheryl Mills on the need to “dump” emails. Twitter’s trending news feed was dominated by #PodestaEmails25 after a new batch of stolen documents belonging to John Podesta were posted online. A March 2, 2015, discussion

The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News on Tuesday, Nov. 1. The release of a video of Donald Trump bragging about how easy it was for him to get away with sexual assault dredged up millions of memories of women who have experienced being groped or kissed against their will. Nearly 10 million

WASHINGTON — Some Republicans say if Hillary Clinton becomes president, they’re prepared to leave one or more Supreme Court seats vacant long term — a political maneuver that could result in Americans living under a variety of legal decisions and uncertain about their fundamental constitutional rights, law experts say. U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., this

With the election just a week away, the FBI has released a tranche of 15-year-old documents dealing with Bill Clinton’s pardon of a fugitive financier—a move that the bureau made without explanation and that only adds to the confusion surrounding its controversial role in the presidential contest. While they offer some tantalizing tidbits, the documents

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager on Tuesday said if the FBI is going to providing updates about Mrs. Clinton’s emails, then they should be doing so for Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia as well. “Why is it important to hold back information about Russians and it’s not important to hold back information about a Democratic

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Tuesday he has already voted for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, though he referred to Mr. Trump as “our nominee” and said he’d be campaigning elsewhere as Mr. Trump swings through Wisconsin later in the day. “I stand where I’ve stood all fall and all summer,” Mr. Ryan, Wisconsin

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — As Donald Trump kicked off the final full week before Election Day, he dedicated a day of campaigning solely in Michigan, a state that has not backed a Republican for president since 1988. Up next, a policy speech in Pennsylvania and a rally in Wisconsin, states that also haven’t gone red

BALTIMORE — Six people have died after a school bus and commuter bus collided early Tuesday in Southwest Baltimore, police said. No students were on the school bus during the crash, police said. T.J. Smith, a police spokesman, said the incident occurred in the 3800 block of Frederick Avenue before 7 a.m. Smith said the