Federal law makes it a crime for a trusted U.S. official to “knowingly and willfully” disclose or transmit secret information to an “unauthorized person.” A second law makes it a crime to “remove” secret documents kept by the government or to allow them to be stolen through “gross negligence.” ...
Carole Ann Powers was shopping for stationery not long ago — she still likes to send handwritten notes the old-fashioned way — when she found herself turning over the box to read the fine print: Made in China. The Donald Trump supporter says she took a pass, preferring to spend her money on American-made...
For decades, immigration hard-liners have felt sidelined and taken for granted by Republican presidential candidates, left with dog whistles and policy crumbs. But Donald Trump’s ascent to the top of the Republican ticket has changed their fortunes. Longtime advocates for shutting the door to new...
To understand the dilemma Colorado Republicans wrestled with at a conservative gathering this weekend, one only had to look at the range of speakers, whose positions on Donald Trump ran the gamut from enthusiastic support to vehement opposition. Trump himself came to Colorado for the Western Conservative...
Hillary Clinton submitted to more than three hours of questioning at FBI headquarters Saturday morning about her “email arrangements” while she served as secretary of State, according to an aide, a sign that the probe is reaching a conclusion. The interview marks the first time that Clinton — now...
Donald Trump’s visit to Colorado on Friday offered the presumptive GOP nominee a chance to repair relations with Republicans in this pivotal swing state after a contentious primary season. But Trump instead dwelt on the divisions that threaten to split open the party. In his address at the Western...
Reviewing the finalists to be his running mate in 2008, Barack Obama offered this assessment of then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine: “He’s the wild card.” Now, as Hillary Clinton whittles down her potential vice presidential picks, Kaine has moved from what he once called the "long shot on a short list"...
Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch said Friday she will remove herself from the decision-making process about whether to seek charges in the investigation involving Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of State. The decision comes after Lynch came under fire for having...
President Barack Obama says a vaccine for the Zika virus could be developed in "fairly short order" if Congress acts quickly to pass a bill to prevent the spread of the disease. Obama says researchers are beginning to develop and test a vaccine for the mosquito-borne virus. He says that if the...
Donald Trump’s fundraising woes extend well beyond his campaign’s lackluster effort to raise money. A hodgepodge of rival outside super PACs is now fighting — without much success — to attract rich GOP donors and the candidate’s implicit endorsement. As the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities...
Donald Trump again defied Republican orthodoxy during an event in a former factory in New Hampshire on Thursday, declaring that “we’re better off paying a little bit more” for consumer products if it means protecting American jobs. “The goods will also be of a higher quality,” Trump added. “We’re...
Soon after an American Indian tribe announced plans to open a casino at a Catskills horse track, ads started appearing in local newspapers and on radio, sounding an alarm about unbridled crime and corruption. They came from the New York Institute for Law and Society, a new self-described grass-roots...
President Obama challenged the contention Wednesday that Donald Trump is a populist and got an assist from Mexico’s president, who warned darkly that Hitler and Mussolini used rhetoric similar to Trump’s with tragic results. In a screed that he himself described as a “rant,” the president said...
Donald Trump, who rode a wave of anti-globalism to the top of the GOP presidential field, made a series of pledges and threats Tuesday aimed at punishing China and divorcing the U.S. from trade deals he blames for the loss of manufacturing jobs. The speech, delivered from a teleprompter at the...
After an exhaustive and politically charged investigation that went on for years and cost millions of dollars, Republicans on the House Benghazi committee released a final report Tuesday that shed little new light on the U.S. response to the 2012 attacks in that Libyan city. The 800-page report,...
The Democrats on the House Benghazi committee released their final conclusions from the inquiry into attacks on Americans in that Libyan city in 2012, and in the report they say, once again, that the investigation is a politically motivated sham aimed at damaging the reputation of Hillary Clinton....
Hillary Clinton already had Elizabeth Warren’s endorsement. On Monday, Clinton sought to channel some of Warren’s energy. The first combined campaign appearance of the party’s presumptive presidential nominee and one of its most ardent progressive voices at this city’s restored Art Deco train station...
The Supreme Court issued a 5-3 decision Monday that limits states’ ability to restrict access to an abortion by passing unnecessary health and safety regulations. Justice Stephen Breyer issued the majority opinion in the case, which has been called the court’s most definitive stance on abortion...
As Hillary Clinton emerges from a hard-fought primary into what promises to be a bruising general election fight, her campaign is making a rather frank admission: As familiar as she is to the public, voters know little about her record. Her advisors have grappled with the problem since she launched...
Hillary Clinton pitched herself as an example of "steady, experienced leadership” and bipartisanship Sunday, just hours after the Senate’s Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, declined to say whether he thought Donald Trump was qualified to be president. Speaking at a gathering of mayors here, Clinton...
The Britons who voted to take their country out of the European Union were predominantly white, working class, older and deeply upset about immigration. Their leaders drew scorn from the university-educated elite as nativists, borderline racists and occasional buffoons. Backing them was too risky,...
Donald Trump stood on his renovated golf course in Scotland and promoted the sprinkler system, the luxury suites and the “greatest par 3 anywhere in the world” before praising British voters’ decision to leave the European Union and bashing President Obama and Hillary Clinton for urging them to...
For all the talk about divisions within the two major parties over their presumptive nominees, the story of the past month has been the speed with which voters in both have fallen into line: The most recent polling averages show Hillary Clinton receiving eight in 10 Democratic votes and Donald...
More than 24 hours after seizing control of the House floor, Democratic lawmakers on Thursday ended a noisy, unusual sit-in after being unable to push Speaker Paul D. Ryan to call a vote on legislation to curb gun sales. Democrats sat on the chamber floor, spoke passionately about victims of gun...
Restrictions on speeches and parades outside next month's Republican National Convention were struck down by a federal judge Thursday as unconstitutional. At a Thursday morning hearing, U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin said he would issue a preliminary injunction forcing the city of Cleveland...
Donald Trump on Wednesday, for the first time, assembled a somewhat coherent message detailing Hillary Clinton’s vulnerabilities. He also demonstrated that he is a supremely flawed messenger. For almost every criticism Trump leveled at Clinton, a corresponding criticism could be made of Trump: ...
Donald Trump attempted to relaunch his troubled campaign Wednesday with a scripted speech fusing his anti-trade economic message with a series of attacks on Hillary Clinton that ran the gamut from harsh, to unprovable to false. It was in many ways two speeches, with one designed to show a more...
More than five years after taking the majority on a promise to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act, House Republicans have elected again not to advance a comprehensive alternative. Instead, lawmakers are putting forward a general outline Wednesday that combines a series of familiar conservative...
Nearly half of Republicans regard Democrats as more “immoral,” “lazy” and “dishonest” than other Americans; seven in 10 Democrats view Republicans as “more closed-minded.” And altogether, about half of respondents in a new poll said the other side makes them “angry” or “afraid.” While Donald Trump...