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A federal judge on Thursday ordered Virginia officials to extend the state voter registration deadline through Friday night, following website problems that prevented some residents from signing up to participate in next month’s election. The decision came after the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Tuesday filed a legal complaint asking the federal […]

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said Friday that the Obama administration’s silence on the dirty election tricks linked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign that were exposed by undercover videos has further diminished the public’s trust in the federal government. Mr. Clarke, who is black, called the incidents in which pro-Clinton operatives planted operatives at Donald Trump

Sen. Jeff Flake said it is time for Congress to move forward as if Hillary Clinton is president-elect and plan to take up President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland to the Supreme Court during the lame-duck session of Congress. “I said if we were in a position like we were in in ’96

NEW YORK — The day after the final presidential debate, where each charged the other with being a crook, a liar and a puppet, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton honored a tradition that had them sitting down to dinner together to exchange jokes. It was an awkward night. The customary self-deprecating addresses candidates have been

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he no longer believes in the presidential polls, saying the odds are very high that Republican nominee Donald Trump can defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton if he stays on message and sticks to both the teleprompter and big ideas. “I think the polls are wrong,” Mr. Gingrich said on Fox

Hours before his headline-making appearance at Thursday’s 2016 Al Smith Dinner in New York City, Republican presidential nominee walked off an interview with an NBC affiliate in Ohio. The interview started off well enough. Trump and WCMH’s Colleen Marshall spoke of his recent comments about the upcoming presidential election possibly being rigged against him. Marshall

A Jewish editor for the political news website Politico has been suffering anti-Semitic abuse over twitter from a purported supporter of Donald Trump. Hadas Gold, the editor of Politico’s “On The Media” blog, received a message with a photoshopped image of her wearing the yellow patch the Nazis forced Jews to wear and with a

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough issued an angry rant against the media Thursday morning, arguing that reporters are taking one “little phrase” from Donald Trump and having a “freak out” over something that Democrats have been complaining about ever since President George W. Bush beat Al Gore in 2000. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mr. Scarborough pointed out

Historians assessing the 2016 presidential election will cite Donald Trump’s repeated self-inflicted wounds: attacking a Mexican-American federal judge, the Muslim-American Gold Star parents of a fallen war hero and a former Miss Universe. But they’ll likely conclude he administered the coup de grace to himself by refusing in Wednesday night’s third televised debate with Hillary

Another woman has come forward accusing Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances, saying the decades-old encounter left her feeling shame and disgust. Speaking at a New York news conference Thursday, Karena Virginia described leaving the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing, N.Y., in 1998 and as she waited to be picked up, she noticed

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton discussed the U.S. Supreme Court, guns and abortion within the first 20 minutes of the final presidential debate, the most time spent on these divisive issues during their three forums in the general election season. Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News began the debate by asking the candidates where they