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Pence says campaign might stop banning news outlets
Donald Trump’s running mate is saying that the Republican presidential campaign might lift its ban of certain media outlets from campaign events.
FACT CHECK: Trump’s misreading of Iran deal
Donald Trump entertained an Iowa audience Thursday with an animated account of how he would have wrung a better nuclear deal out of Iran if he’d been president when it was negotiated. But there was more fable than fact in his story.
FACT CHECK: Misfires in Hillary Clinton’s speech
In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton wrongly implied Donald Trump has proposed banning Islam in America and sketched out a plan for defeating Islamic State militants that merely mirrors what the U.S. is already trying to do.
Can Hillary Clinton unify her cracked party?
The Democratic Party faces a challenge, in the divide between supporters of Hillary Clinton and supporters of Bernie Sanders. If the fissure is not healed, a bigot could seize the White House.
Clinton’s pledge: Steady hand at ‘moment of reckoning’
Promising Americans a steady hand, Hillary Clinton cast herself Thursday night as a unifier for divided times, an experienced leader steeled for a volatile world. She aggressively challenged Republican Donald Trump’s ability to do the same.
Trump has a record of siding with Putin on key issues
Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s intentions toward the Kremlin.
Clues in DNC hacking point to Russia, despite Trump claims
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said again Thursday whoever hacked the Democratic National Committee and stole years of internal emails remains a mystery, but private security experts – although not yet any U.S. government agencies – say they found persuasive clues that point to hacking groups whose previous targets track closely with the strategic interests of Russia’s government, especially its civilian and military intelligence and security agencies.
Roe v. Wade will be overturned if Trump wins, Pence says
GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Thursday predicted that Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, would be overturned if Donald Trump is elected president.
Dana Milbank: Is Vladimir Putin trying to help his admirer Donald Trump win the White House?
Donald Trump never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. But on one topic, Trump is conspicuously incurious: the suggestion that he is complicit in a plan by Vladimir Putin to influence the U.S. election.
In this election, lots of things get said; no one’s opinion gets changed
Americans seem doggedly focused lately on things that matter. Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. All lives matter.
Obama boosts Clinton: Carry her like you carried me
Their political fates now entwined, President Barack Obama will implore voters Wednesday to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, appealing to the women, minorities and young people who powered his rise and are now crucial to hers.
Trudy Rubin: The dangerous Trump doctrine
Donald Trump’s scary, contradiction-riddled ideas about foreign policy show he has no grasp of what he talking about and no desire to learn.
Robert Samuelson: Trump leverages false expectations
Americans are now said to be “angry” and to demand “change.” This is misleading. In the past two decades, Americans have had more change than they wanted.
Clinton in search of larger message
The convention the Republicans just wrapped up in Cleveland, with its back-stabbing rivals, missing dignitaries and borrowed phrases from another speech, may not be a tough act to follow, but Democrats are nonetheless in a state of high anxiety as the spotlight shifts their way this week.
Kathleen Parker: Trump’s rhetoric evokes tyrants
It is not for nothing that many have compared Trump’s brand of rhetoric to some of humankind’s worst, including, unavoidably, Adolf Hitler.
Sunday Spin: Rock ‘n’ roll here to stay on campaign trail
When rockin’ out on the campaign trail, politicians should pay attention to lyrics and the sensibilities of thin-skinned musicians.
Charles Krauthammer: Unity elusive at unconventional convention
Cruz left the stage to a cascade of boos, having delivered the longest suicide note in American political history.
Jay Ambrose: Not the usual Trump speech
Trump’s speech did show a capacity to reach beyond what we have mostly gotten from him to date.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: GOP full of fear and loathing, but no facts or logic
Everywhere you turned there was something that made you embarrassed for them, something so disconnected from fact, logic or decency as to suggest those things no longer have much meaning for the party faithful.
Convention missteps renew concerns about Trump and governing
Donald Trump followed the script in his big speech to the Republican National Convention. Less than 12 hours later, he was free-form again, Trump being Trump, resurrecting a conspiracy theory linking the father of his chief rival from the primaries to John F. Kennedy’s assassination.