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In reversal, Trump says IS claim about Obama was sarcastic
After days of alleging repeatedly that President Barack Obama literally founded the Islamic State group, Donald Trump abruptly shifted tone on Friday and insisted his widely debunked claim had been sarcastic.
Clinton releases 2015 tax returns; Trump may feel pressure to do same
Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million last year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign Friday that sought to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns.
Amy Goodman: Trump rhetoric takes scary turn
Trump is a dangerous demagogue who is inciting violence, and the time for it to stop is now.
Diana Sroka Rickert: Clinton’s campaign message is sexist
Choosing a presidential candidate based on his or her gender is like voting for someone because you like the candidate’s hair color. It has nothing to do with a person’s leadership abilities.
Trump wrongly says nation is short of coal, fact checker says
Asked Tuesday about the price of gasoline and how regulation may affect the price of electricity, Donald Trump stood up for American’s fossil fuel industry – coal in particular.
In Miami, Clinton to call on Congress to act on Zika virus
Hillary Clinton will call on Congress to return to Washington and pass emergency funding for the Zika response during a visit to a Miami neighborhood dealing with the first U.S. outbreak of the disease.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: How I got in trouble with ladies
I suspect the three months till November and the (please, God!) four to eight years of a Clinton presidency are going to provide numerous refresher courses for men like me, men perhaps a little too sanguine, a little too smugly assured of their own enlightenment.
Trump ends standoff with Ryan, strains to fix split GOP
Donald Trump faced an all-too-clear sign of GOP divisions Friday in two Midwestern battlegrounds, embraced by party leaders in one state but ignored in another as he strained to overcome deepening concerns about his presidential candidacy.
Clinton’s post-convention bounce runs into a familiar wall: emails
Hillary Clinton acknowledged Friday the challenge she’d face leading a country where most Americans don’t trust her, saying she takes “seriously” the work she must do to build confidence in her character.
Trump conflict overshadows attacks on Clinton foreign policy
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan reaffirmed his support for Donald Trump Thursday in his first comments since the GOP presidential nominee declined to endorse the speaker in an upcoming Republican primary. “He won the delegates. He won the thing fair and square. It’s just that simple,” Ryan said in an interview on the “Jerry Bader Show” on WTAQ radio in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Obama presses ahead on TPP, brushing off Clinton’s critique
President Barack Obama brushed off opposition from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to a free-trade agreement with Asia on Tuesday, vowing to try to force the Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress before either of them can take office.
Trump University case: Judge blocks release of Trump’s video testimony
A judge in San Diego who has been a target of Donald Trump’s repeated criticism has blocked the release of videos of the Republican presidential nominee testifying in a lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University.
Trump is ‘unfit’ to be president, Obama says
In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say enough.”
Clinton sees best-yet fundraising numbers as general election begins
Hillary Clinton raised $63 million in July for her presidential campaign, her best month yet and a summertime haul that puts her ahead of President Barack Obama’s fundraising at the same point in his re-election race.
Billionaire Warren Buffett ready to take on Donald Trump
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he’ll do whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump – including escorting people to the polls himself.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Election will be moment of truth
In the end, it wasn’t even close. After a GOP gathering in Cleveland that had all the incandescent joy of a biblical plague, the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia was as bracing as snow down your back on the most scalding day in August. In terms of star power (Meryl Streep versus Chachi from “Happy Days”) production value and substance, there was no contest. One was a sixth-grade talent show, the other a matinee of “Hamilton.”
Clinton accuses Trump of ‘degrading comments about Muslims’
Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Donald Trump repaid the “ultimate sacrifice” of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq with insults and degrading comments about Muslims, as the soldier’s bereaved father pressured Republican Party leaders to distance themselves from the GOP presidential nominee.
Clintons, Kaine: Trump lacks empathy for family of fallen U.S. Army captain
Hillary Clinton’s top surrogates are taking aim at rival Donald Trump for criticizing the bereaved mother of a Muslim U.S. Army captain, a comment that sparked outrage across the political spectrum on Saturday.
Trump’s xenophobia makes white hearts race. Clinton’s nanny state? Not so much.
The Clinton campaign’s premise is that we’re doing OK but we can do better. There are holes to patch in the nanny-state safety net. She’s the one to do it. It amounts to Sanders lite.
Bernie Sanders stood tall at the Democratic Convention
Most of Bernie Sanders’ disciples followed his example and backed Hillary Clinton. The few who threw tantrums need to grow up and take advantage of the progress he won.