As House and Senate Republicans gather in Baltimore for their annual retreat this week, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says Democrats will force votes on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposals.
Vice President Joe Biden is still weighing his big decision whether or not to get in the race. But after Hillary Clinton’s debate performance last night, the political class is turning against the one man it was desperate to see shake up the race.
(Associated Press) NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. — A central New York couple has been charged with fatally beating their 19-year-old son inside a church and four fellow church members have been charged with assault in an attack that also left the young man’s brother severely injured, police said Tuesday.
Producer prices fell more than expected in September as inflation is simply nowhere to be found.
A cool front that moved through the area of the Smithville, Texas, wildfire brought lower temperatures, dryer air and calmer winds which could be a mixed blessing for Texas firefighters. The firefighters battled the blaze throughout the night that has now claimed over 250 acres. While the cooler temperatures and calm air help firefighters, the lower humidity level increase the danger that new fires could start or the existing fire could spread.
Carly Fiorina capitalized on her strong first debate performance, raising $6.8 million in the third quarter. Her impressive total beat out Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, long considered a formidable candidate by Republican party insiders. Rubio’s fundraising disappointed in the July-September period, raising just $6 million.
Frontrunner Hillary Clinton should have to answer for a disingenuous foreign policy blunder during Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.
“In the name of the Church, I would like to ask forgiveness for the scandals that have occurred in recent times, both in Rome and in the Vatican,” Pope Francis said at the beginning of Wednesday’s General Audience.
Democratic National Committee (DNC) communications director Luis Miranda says a main plank of his party’s strategy is to “remind” voters about the divisive and unpopular final days of the George W. Bush presidency.
Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is not denying that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is favoring Clinton over the other four official candidates at this point. “I think the DNC is trying to play it straight. If the DNC wants more debates, Hillary will do more debates,” Podesta promised.
It’s tough to get me excited about anything gay these days. What was once a fearless, exciting subculture has ossified into a load of uptight house husbands with terrible taste in everything who won’t even deign to share their superior homosexual man-fluid for the good of the species.
LAS VEGAS – Progressive billionaire Tom Steyer hinted Tuesday that he plans to support Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election.
The Texas economy has taken hits from a plunge in oil prices, global economic weakness, and a stronger U.S. dollar during the last year. One indication of this combined blow is the latest report by the Dallas Federal Reserve showing a 7.7 percent drop in exports during the last year through July. With exports contributing to almost one-fifth of the state’s total economy and supporting more than one million jobs, it’s no shock that the state’s economy is slowing.
Seven Mexican nationals were convicted in Texas of forcing illegal immigrant females, both adults and minors, to engage in prostitution in Houston-area bars. The Mexican nationals admitted to enticing young girls and women from Mexico to be smuggled into Texas illegally across the porous border and then using physical threats and force to make the females sell their bodies to Houston-area men.
While Tuesday night’s CNN political debate was intended as an opportunity for one of the Democrat Party presidential hopefuls to separate him or herself from the rest of the pack, the best line of the night came from a man who was not even in the room with the debaters nor in the same party.
The 2016 Democratic primary officially crashed off the rails on Tuesday evening at the CNN debate in Las Vegas, Nevada. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed she’s an “outsider.” Former Rhode Island Governor and Senator Lincoln Chafee dismissed a vote he cast in the U.S. Senate because he had just been appointed to the seat and because his father had just died. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley wants to put the entire nation on a renewable energy grid by 2050. And Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is pushing for a “revolution,” that former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb says is never going to come.
In one of the controversial highlights of the night at Tuesday’s first Democratic Party Presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that she is an outsider because she is a woman.
President Obama publicly ignored the Democratic presidential debate, broadcast on CNN Tuesday night, choosing instead to tweet about baseball.
National pro-life leaders were quick to respond with distrust to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards’s statement Tuesday that her abortion business would no longer accept payments for the body parts of aborted babies.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) greeted an ecstatic crowd of some 300 supporters after the Democratic debate, calling on them to wage a “political revolution” with him.
During the October 13 Democratic debate, the second question asked by moderator Anderson Cooper was about guns—he asked each presidential hopeful to explain the gun laws they believe are necessary and also how they plan to secure the passage of such laws.
LAS VEGAS – Bernie Sanders’ most ardent supporters at Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate carried cardboard cutouts of Bernie Sanders portrayed as ‘Robin Hood,’ a medieval vigilante who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The pro-Sanders viewing room at the Wynn Hotel was packed with union nurses from National Nurses United and members of other groups, including the Robin Hood Tax organization.
Presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee wasted no time in attacking fellow Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton and her email scandal at the party’s first debate of the 2016 election season. “I have high ethical standards,” Chaffee said, as he hit Hillary with in his opening statement. He has “had no scandals,” he added.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is demanding that Utah resident Kevin Van Miltenberg remove his homemade Halloween decoration of a man hanging from a noose, calling it a “mockery of the history of lynchings in our country.”
A room of roughly 200 enthusiastic Bernie Sanders supporters at the Wynn Las Vegas fell silent as Hillary Clinton attacked the Vermont socialist’s relatively soft position on gun control at the Democratic debate.
Hillary Clinton is very weak in a general election match-up. In the new Fox poll, she loses to every potential Republican candidate. She trails Trump by 5 points, Ben Carson by 11 points, Jeb Bush by 4 points and Carly Fiorina by 3 points. This is not in the Democrat script for the general election. Hillary Clinton, in fact, could be the first Democrat candidate in recent memory who has to actively campaign for the female vote.
