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It seems as though some in Ohio took offense to Hillary Clinton’s comments over the weekend that half of Donald Trump’s supporters can be grouped into a “bucket of deplorables.” Mr. Trump tops Mrs. Clinton by 5 percentage points in a Bloomberg Politics poll of the state, one of his largest margins in the Rust […]

The Democratic attorney general of New York who has opened investigations of climate fraud against oil companies picked a new target Tuesday – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday afternoon that he was concerned that the Donald J. Trump Foundation was breaking

Gary Johnson is going all out in a final push to qualify for the presidential debates. Johnson, the Libertarian candidate who made headlines last week for asking “What is Aleppo” on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” debuted a full page ad in The New York Times Wednesday calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to give him

House conservatives pulled the trigger Tuesday on the process to begin impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, rejecting appeals from fellow Republicans and from the commissioner himself to set the matter aside and prompting President Obama to call the effort “crazy.” Rep. John Fleming, Louisiana Republican, made the move, kicking off a process that will

Hillary Clinton isn’t winning the 2016 presidential race. She’s just losing less than Donald Trump, a new Quinnipiac University poll out Wednesday suggests. Clinton leads Trump in the most recent poll by five points nationally, with 48 percent of those polled saying that she was their gal compared to just 43 percent who said they

PHILADELPHIA—President Barack Obama made the case in Philadelphia on Tuesday for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, praising his former secretary of State’s experience while painting Republican Donald Trump as an unqualified fraud. Describing the November election as “a choice about the very meaning of America,” Obama said the Republican Party had been preying on fear

The outcome of this November’s election will determine the direction of the Supreme Court for a generation. The next president will have at least one, and as many as four or five, vacancies to fill. There is no more important issue in this election than the Supreme Court. This is because Supreme Court justices do

PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump proposed new federal subsidies to make child care more affordable during a Delaware County campaign stop Tuesday, aiming to appeal to moderate women voters in the suburbs of Philadelphia and other cities who have resisted his candidacy. The initiative, which includes a promise of paid maternity leave, would rely on a

Bryan Pagliano, who helped maintain Hillary Clinton’s controversial email server, defied a congressional subpoena and refused to appear for a hearing Tuesday looking into the setup and deletion of her secret email account. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said he’s going to figure out what options he can pursue, but said Mr. Pagliano is

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump added new mystery to the question of how healthy he is, recording an episode of “The Dr. Oz Show” on Wednesday with what the show said were results from a recent physical. The show will not air until Thursday, so it is unclear how much detail, if any, the Republican nominee

At a campaign rally in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was still refusing to let go of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal with which to attack his Democratic rival. With technical experts who set up her private server refusing testify before a congressional committee, Trump is claiming its a travesty of justice: “This is a

At every celebration of an accomplishment in my life, my father — my biggest champion — would praise my intelligence, hard work and drive, then inevitably add: “If only you had been born a boy.” Once, I pointed out the obvious: That would have been a step down. I’m more capable than men. I’ve given