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Sen. Toomey lauds Trump for calling off Iran strikes, supports stricter economic sanctions
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey on Friday lauded reports of President Donald Trump’s decision to call off a planned strike on Iran in retaliation for an American drone shot down earlier this week. Toomey said that “it’s commendable that the President’s instinctive approach is to try to avoid an escalation that...
Talk show host says Trump raped her at Manhattan department store in 1990s
NEW YORK — A veteran New York lifestyle journalist in a first-person essay published Friday says Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room at a ritzy Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s — one of the most serious accusations of sexual assault ever lobbed against the president. E. Jean...
Pa. commemorates anniversary of women's vote with document display
One hundred years ago this month, on June 24, 1919, Pennsylvania became the seventh state to ratify the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. As part of Monday’s 100th anniversary commemoration of that event, Pennsylvania’s document ratifying the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution will be on display...
Roy Moore, who fell short in Senate bid in 2017, says he will run again for Alabama seat 
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans greeted Roy Moore’s entry Thursday into Alabama’s next Senate race by vowing to block the former judge, whose Senate bid in 2017 fell short amid allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls in the 1970s. From the party leader to former presidential candidates, Republicans said Moore...
PBS provides major findings of the Mueller report in video form 
Want to read the findings of the Mueller report but you don’t have the time to read 440-plus pages? Public Broadcasting Service has provided a, well, service. PBS posted the major findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusions from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election on...
Joe Biden faces backlash over comments about 'civility' of his past work with racist senators 
Joe Biden faced a growing backlash Wednesday from prominent Democrats — and a bit of second-guessing within his own campaign — over comments in which he proudly described his history of working hand in hand in the Senate with avowed racists. Biden’s remarks, which came at a fundraiser Tuesday night...
Man arrested for slapping reporter's hand at Trump's Florida rally 
ORLANDO — Authorities in Florida say a man was arrested outside the arena where President Trump made his reelection announcement for trying to slap a cellphone out of a journalist’s hand. The Orlando Police Department said Wednesday that 51-year-old Daniel Kestner is facing a battery charge for trying to slap...
Hicks rebuffs questions on Trump White House in interview
WASHINGTON — Former top White House adviser Hope Hicks on Wednesday refused to answer questions related to her time in the White House in an interview with the House Judiciary Committee, dimming Democrats’ chances of obtaining new or substantive information about President Trump as part of their investigation into obstruction...
Trump rehashes gripes, rips 'radical' Dems in 2020 launch
ORLANDO — Jabbing at the press and poking the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016, President Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign Tuesday with a grievance-filled Florida rally that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a second term. Addressing a...
Patrick Shanahan withdraws candidacy to be defense secretary, citing domestic violence incidents 
WASHINGTON — Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan withdrew his already-troubled candidacy to lead the Pentagon full time on Tuesday after press accounts disclosed domestic violence incidents involving his ex-wife and son nearly a decade ago. President Trump announced Shanahan’s abrupt withdrawal, tweeting that the former Boeing Co. executive wanted to...
Trump, outsider-turned-insider, sells self as rebel for 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump captured the Republican Party and then the presidency in 2016 as an insurgent intent on disrupting the status quo. As he mounts his bid for reelection, Trump is offering himself as the outsider once again — but it’s a much more awkward pitch to make...
McConnell: I don't know why Jon Stewart is 'all bent out of shape' on 9/11 victims fund 
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., responded Monday to comedian Jon Stewart’s criticism of his handling of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, saying that he didn’t know why Stewart was “all bent out of shape.” McConnell’s comments, made in an interview with “Fox & Friends,” were made one day...
GOP mutters, gently, as Trump sidesteps Senate for top aides
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest anointment of an acting head of a major federal agency has prompted muttering, but no more than that, from Republican senators whose job description includes confirming top administration aides. Their reluctance to confront Trump comes as veterans of the confirmation process and analysts say...
Trump campaign cuts ties with 3 members of polling team after grim numbers leaked 
President Trump’s campaign is cutting ties with three members of his polling team after grim numbers showing him trailing former vice president Joe Biden in several battleground states were leaked to the media last week, according to several officials with knowledge of the matter. Days ahead of Trump’s official launch...
Trump’s Father’s Day tweets: Washington Post and New York Times will fold once he’s gone 
On a day when the United States celebrates fatherhood, President Trump had American media on his mind. In yet another display of his preoccupation with the press, Trump tweeted on Sunday that a poll should be conducted regarding the Washington Post and the New York Times, two of the largest...
4 years in, Trump fondly recalls Trump Tower campaign launch
NEW YORK — It was the escalator ride that would change history. Four years ago on Sunday, Donald Trump descended through the pink marble and brass atrium of Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president , the first step on a journey few believed would take him all the...
Trump says he'd 'of course' tell FBI if he gets foreign dirt
WASHINGTON — President Trump shifted gears Friday on election interference, saying “of course” he would go to the FBI or the attorney general if a foreign power offered him dirt about an opponent. Trump’s new stance was a walk back — to a degree — after he set off a...
Trump taps former immigration official as his border czar
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday said he was bringing a longtime lawman and enthusiastic supporter out of retirement to serve as “border czar” as his administration struggles with a worsening crisis that his hard-line immigration policies have failed to stem. Thomas Homan most recently led U.S. Immigration and...
Debate lineups: Biden, Sanders on 2nd night, Warren on 1st
NBC set the lineup for its two-night debate of 2020 presidential contenders later this month, with a top-heavy second session that will pit former Vice President Joe Biden onstage against 2016 Democratic runner-up, Bernie Sanders, the youthful Mayor Pete Buttigieg and California Sen. Kamala Harris. The first night, June 26...
Amy Klobuchar supports Trump impeachment process 'beginning now'
NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar says she would support impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump “beginning now.” The Minnesota senator’s comment to CNN Friday followed Trump’s statement this week that he’d take information from a foreign power that offered dirt on an opponent. Klobuchar says “it’s illegal”...
Trump won't promise to endorse Pence for president in 2024
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday morning that if Vice President Mike Pence runs for president in 2024, he wouldn’t automatically have his endorsement. The president was asked the hypothetical during a wide-ranging interview on “Fox & Friends.” “You’re talking about a long time. You can’t put me in...
Trump says he won't fire Kellyanne Conway over Hatch Act violations
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday that he will not fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for repeated violations of the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from engaging in political activity in the course of their work. “Well I got briefed on it yesterday, and it looks to...
UK leader race down to 6 contenders, Boris Johnson in front
LONDON — One of seven contenders to replace Prime Minister Theresa May quit the Conservative Party leadership race on Friday, as front-runner Boris Johnson was accused of trying to dodge media scrutiny. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said after the first round of voting, it was clear he did not have...
Younger 2020 candidates hint at age divide in hitting Biden
WASHINGTON — Some of the younger candidates in the crowded Democratic presidential primary are suggesting that the early front-runner, 76-year-old Joe Biden, is too mired in the past. Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, 46, and Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., have stepped up questions this week...
Trump says Press Secretary Sarah Sanders to leave White House
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month. President Donald Trump announced the news on Twitter Wednesday. He says Sanders will be returning to her home state of Arkansas and has not immediately named a successor. Sanders is...


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