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Publicly opposing Donald Trump left one conservative commentator and his family facing an endless barrage of online abuse from the so-called "alt-right," the anti-establishment conservative movement known for its close ties to white nationalism and for its internet-savvy adherents' coordinated attacks on political and media figures.

Hillary Clinton is expected to deliver a speech in Cleveland, Ohio at 4:30 p.m. ET.

A rural California county is trying to convince a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of Hmong residents who allege local officials waged a voter intimidation campaign to keep them from participating in the California primary.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is offering new evidence that the short-handed court is having trouble getting its work done.

Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke has qualified to participate in the upcoming U.S. Senate debate at Dillard University, a historically black university in New Orleans.

Bridget Kelly, former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie now on trial for her role in Bridgegate, says yes Christie knew all about the scheme.

Her name is Michelle Obama.

In bombshell testimony Friday, Bridget Anne Kelly said that she told New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) that access lanes to the George Washington Bridge would be closed for a traffic study a month before the plan actually was carried out in September 2013.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. had a student's sports column pulled from the school's newspaper because it focused on vulgar comments made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the notion of "locker room talk."

During his rally in Fletcher, North Carolina, on Friday, Donald Trump claimed that Michelle Obama's 2007 line about not being able to run the White House if you can't run your own house was a dig at Hillary Clinton, even though the Obamas have denied that was the case.

Yesterday I was looking back through the progression of events with the at-first-suspected and now confirmed (according to the US government, at least) Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. It starts in June with a report that a private security firm (Crowdstrike) had concluded that a hack of the Democratic National Committee's email servers had emerged out of Russia. (Go back and you'll see an early theory was that they were stealing anti-Trump oppo with the intention of giving it to Trump.)... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump wants to bar any of his statements on the campaign trail – including his tweets, stump speeches and surrogate statements – from being used as evidence against him in the fraud trial over Trump University.

During his rally in Fletcher, North Carolina, on Friday, Donald Trump told the crowd that he'll be happy with his effort on the campaign trail whether he wins or loses, but later on in his speech, he said losing would make his campaign a "waste of time."

Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004 and who made waves at the Democratic National Convention this summer, appears in a Hillary Clinton TV ad released Friday asking Donald Trump what place his son would have in his vision of America.

The Russian government doesn't seem too interested in assuaging Americans' fears that they're trying to influence our elections: Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas all refused requests from Russian officials seeking to monitor U.S. polling places.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma and two other states say they have denied a request by Russian officials to be present at polling stations during the Nov. 8 election.

While Donald Trump’s at times bitter performance at Thursday night’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner has been the subject of much Friday morning quarterbacking from the political commentariat, one joke seemed to hit much harder than the rest with the crowd at the event, which raises money for Catholic charities.

As Donald Trump refuses to commit to accepting the results of the November election, his surrogates have brought up Al Gore and the Florida recount in the 2000 election.

Hillary Clinton edges two points behind Donald Trump in historically-red Georgia, according to a new poll from Abt-SRBI/Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

BEIJING (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that his country is separating from the U.S. in a speech before a Beijing economic forum on Thursday, after handing China a major diplomatic victory, agreeing to resume dialogue on their South China Sea territorial dispute following months of acrimony.

Apparently middle-aged men are just doing their civic duty by letting women know when they find their behavior inappropriate.

Great piece oh how Trump's final meltdown may foil the GOP's efforts to get out of decades old restrictions tied to attempts to intimidate and suppression African-American voting over 30 years ago. Check it out.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Saying that consuming too much sugar is a serious health problem, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told the soft drink industry to stop using his name in ads fighting proposed soda taxes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — A second-grader says a substitute teacher in Ohio threatened to cut off students' heads and bury them if they misbehaved.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It sounds like a Halloween prank but Sacramento police say it was all too real.