U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned a former Navy sailor who served a year in prison for taking sensitive pictures of the reactor inside a nuclear submarine, according to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump repeatedly invoked the sailor, Kristian Saucier, during his presidential ...
Clinton hits $160 billion Pfizer 'inversion' deal with Allergan, says taxpayers left holding the bag
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton attacked Pfizer Inc.'s plan to move its tax address to Ireland through a merger with Allergan PLC, saying it would hurt U.S. taxpayers and urging a crackdown on such deals. "This proposed merger, and so-called inversions by other companies, ...
Criticism of Clinton debate remarks on 9/11, Wall Street money won't resonate: aide
A top aide to U.S. Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Sunday that criticism of her remarks in Saturday's debate regarding 9/11 and Wall Street campaign contributions would not resonate with average voters. "They were attacking her for being too close to Wall ...
Clinton renews gun control push, calls for federal minimum wage of $12
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday renewed her pledge to take on the powerful U.S. gun lobby, and also called for a $12 federal minimum wage. Speaking at a townhall-style event in Coralville, Iowa, Clinton said gun violence affects urban, suburban and rural ...
Bush says rival Rubio no longer trying to break Washiington gridlock
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush pressed his attack on rival Marco Rubio's record of missed Senate votes, saying it showed Rubio had "given up" on breaking through the political gridlock in Washington. Bush questioned whether Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, had shown the leadership ...
Biden says he nixed White House run because it was too late to derail Clinton bid
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he decided not to make a 2016 run for the White House after concluding he couldn't, so late in the game, put together a campaign that would derail Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Couldn't win," Biden said in an ...
GOP head of Benghazi probe claims Clinton not being targeted, hits Republicans for saying otherwise
The Republican head of the congressional investigation into the Benghazi attack said on Sunday he is not targeting Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and such talk hurts the inquiry. Clinton was secretary of state in September 2012 when U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, were ...
Clinton outspends all rivals in building campaign juggernaut
Hillary Rodham Clinton spent $26 million over the summer building up her 2016 campaign, more than any of her rivals either within her own Democratic Party or the Republican side, as she sought to build a formidable organization to help her capture the White ...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden faced an altered political dynamic on Wednesday after Hillary Rodham Clinton reasserted her command of the Democratic Party race during a debate that may have left little room for him to run. Clinton, 67, was widely hailed by analysts as ...
Crunch time for ex-debate rivals Biden, Ryan to make decisions that could shape future U.S. politics
Former rivals Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan are facing looming decisions that will help shape the future of American politics. Neither Ryan, who is being pressured to run for speaker of the House, nor Biden, who is weighing another presidential run, ...
Democrats in U.S. House demand release of Benghazi probe transcripts
Democrats in the U.S. House are calling on the Republican majority to release interview transcripts from a special committee's investigation of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Democrats on the committee criticize the investigation as a partisan attack on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ...
Politics of identity and the death of feminism
Slavish devotion to identity politics has some American feminists swooning dangerously for right-winger Carly Fiorina.
