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I saw Chief David Brown on Saturday night at a fundraiser for the families of the five Dallas officers slain July 7. A fortune was raised, around $500,000, because this is a generous and compassionate city. There was big money in the room, none bigger than Mark Cuban. A few people snapped selfies with the […]

WASHINGTON — Job growth slowed back to a moderate pace in August, and the nation’s unemployment rate held at 4.9 percent for the third straight month, the government said Friday. The latest jobs report from the Labor Department was largely ho-hum and unlikely to change the prospects for an interest rate hike by the Federal

CARY, N.C. — Donald Trump can win. Sure, the polls show him lagging behind Hillary Clinton nationally. They find him trailing in many battleground states. And he’s neck and neck in states such as North Carolina that went Republican last time and that he needs desperately. But if the presidential race in its fall rush

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump questioned Friday how Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton became enormously wealthy running a charity, which has become the focus of the campaign’s allegation of pay-to-play corruption while she was secretary of state. “The question I always ask is, what product were they selling?

  By Colleen O’Connor Times of San Diego “How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.” That twisted take on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s love sonnet accurately captures some of America’s stewing rage. The reason? Let me count and/or name them. Ryan Lochte, the Olympic swimmer aka “jerk”/liar, who re-popularized the phrase “Ugly American” and

In modern presidential elections, superior grassroots voter outreach can mean the difference between winning and losing so-called battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, and, by extension, the White House. When the primaries wrapped up in early June, Republican Donald Trump was far behind his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton on that front, lacking anything close

Jewish voters in the U.S. support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by more than two-to-one, according to a survey released Tuesday by research consultancy Gallup. The survey, which used daily data collected by Gallup between July 1 and August 28, showed that 52 percent of Jews have favorable views of the Democratic nominee, but only

Black Lives Matter accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee of trying to placate activists after a hacker leaked on Wednesday an internal party memo advising candidates on how to handle the movement. The Nov. 9 memo to by former DCCC staffer Troy Perry urged candidates to listen but “don’t offer support for concrete policy positions”;