After months of tangling from afar, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are preparing to confront each other face-to-face in the first presidential debate, laying out for voters their vastly different visions for the nation’s future. The high-stakes Monday night showdown is the first of three presidential debates. It comes as both candidates are viewed negatively by large numbers of Americans,…
The Republican Party has nominated Donald Trump for president. And now the New York billionaire has completed a remarkable rise from political outsider to major party nominee for the White House. New York put him over the top in the delegate count Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention. There was a disruptive fight on Monday night over the party’s…
Barring a last-minute jolt to the proceedings, Donald Trump is about to attain his party’s presidential nomination. This, despite efforts to stop him that spilled messily into the opening of the Republican National Convention. As his wife, Melania, put it from the stage on Monday night, “It would not be a Trump contest without excitement and drama.” Instead of a…
The White House is predicting the government’s budget deficit for the soon-to-close fiscal year will hit $600 billion. That’s an increase of $162 billion over last year’s tally and a reversal of a steady trend of large but improving deficits on President Barack Obama’s watch. The disappointing figures, while expected, come after the deficit has steadily declined since the huge…
A new report says Donald Trump used money from his own charity to purchase an autographed Tim Tebow helmet and jersey four years ago during a charity auction for the Susan J. Komen Foundation. Citing a review of Trump’s charitable records, The Washington Post reported Friday that the $12,000 bill for the then-Denver Broncos quarterback’s memorabilia was paid by the…
Amid scrutiny over Donald Trump’s use of the public space in his namesake building, his post-primary news conference has been moved from Trump Tower to a golf course. The Tuesday event change comes a week after New York City buildings regulators announced they were examining whether the tower’s atrium was improperly closed to the public during a Trump news conference….
New York’s highest court is expected to decide next year whether to dismiss a fraud lawsuit against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors. The midlevel Appellate Division in March rejected Trump’s request to dismiss the 2013 lawsuit. That court has now granted The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative’s request to file a further appeal….
As the race for the White House draws closer to the national conventions this summer, the number of political endorsements are increasing. Recently, Governor Robert Bentley endorsed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. But do these political endorsements have as much impact on voters as they did in years past? The rise of Trump to his party’s nomination flew…
John Kasich plans to end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, making Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee. Three campaign officials who spoke to The Associated Press said the Ohio governor plans to announce his decision in a statement from his home state later Wednesday. Kasich cancelled a press conference in Virginia this morning The officials spoke anonymously because they…
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is ending his presidential campaign, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination. Cruz’s campaign said he plans to drop out of the race Tuesday following his loss in Indiana’s Republican primary to Trump. Cruz’s campaign placed its hopes on a data-driven effort to turn out conservative evangelical Christians who had opted…
