Democrats field-tested a survey in the 2008 presidential race that described Hillary Clinton’s weaknesses as her inability to bring change and her reputation as a polarizing figure — two areas where she still faces doubts from voters, according to leaked emails.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said he’s “communicated” recently with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and that he looks forward to working with Mr. Ryan and other members of Congress after Election Day.
Robby Mook was emphatic: The Democratic operatives caught in last week’s Project Veritas undercover sting “never had a relationship with the Clinton campaign.”
Donald Trump has a 2-point lead over Hillary Clinton in a four-way contest in Florida, according to a Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday.
Donald Trump derisively called Vice President Joseph R. Biden “Mr. Tough Guy” and said he’d love to meet him at “the back of the barn,” after Mr. Biden had said last week he wished they were in high school so he could take Mr. Trump “behind the gym.”
Having lent support to the North Dakota pipeline protesters, the Obama administration is stiff-arming requests for more federal assistance as the situation on the ground at the massive encampment grows increasingly volatile.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager on Wednesday said Mr. Trump is keeping a more active campaign schedule than his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and that the GOP nominee can do “all of the above,” as he prepares to spend part of his day at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at his new Washington, D.C., hotel.
Almost embarrassed out of politics by his presidential run, Sen. Marco Rubio has made a remarkable turnaround, and now is poised to win a second term in the U.S. Senate — along the way also transforming himself from tea party hero to establishment favorite.
Democrats are winning the early-voting battle in Nevada, Colorado and Florida, but both parties lay claim to supremacy elsewhere in an election where as many as 40 percent of ballots will be cast before Election Day.
The White House insisted Tuesday that President Obama told the truth about learning about Hillary Clinton’s private email server at the same time the public found out, despite having corresponded by email regularly with his secretary of state.
Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans would explode the deficit, according to independent analyses, but tea party voters, the political movement born as a protest against government debt, are still willing to roll the dice with the billionaire businessman, saying he is the closest thing they have to a political home this year.
President Obama has ordered the Defense Department to speed up a review of its attempt to recoup enlistment bonuses from National Guard members and to ensure that the Pentagon doesn’t “nickel and dime” them.
Angel Gilberto Garcia-Avalos had been deported five times in just the past four years, yet each time he has managed to sneak from Mexico back into the U.S., where he ended up in more mischief: driving without a license, attempted burglary and felony weapons charges.
Hillary Clinton is trying to ignore the latest bad Obamacare news, hoping to survive through the November election before confronting the first major challenge for the next president: how to save President Obama’s health law.
Rumors about Hillary Clinton’s health are not likely to be quashed anytime soon due to a cryptic statement written by top aide Huma Abedin in April 2015.
Los Angeles police are investigating the vandalizing of Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A small but unspecified portion of Birmingham-owned A.G. Gaston Motel will be deeded over to the United States for the establishment of a national park.
The Latest on the influx of asylum-seekers and migrants to Europe (all times local):
If there was ever an issue underscoring the differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, it's gun rights.
Berta Delgado told the Spanish-speaking conservative activists at her door that she is "100 por ciento" Republican, and agreed with their assessment that Democratic Senate candidate Patrick Murphy is too liberal. She said she'd vote for Sen. Marco Rubio.
Several Maryland law enforcement officers are on administrative leave after two people sought by Delaware authorities on gun and drug charges were shot to death at a Cecil County motel.
The man who authorities say fatally shot a former co-worker and wounded three others before killing himself at a rail car factory in Virginia was described by neighbors as a good friend and hard worker who showed no signs of violence.
The Latest on a challenge to a Utah law banning undercover filming at Utah slaughterhouses and other agricultural facilities (all times local):
Analysts say the Clinton campaign risks breeding complacency among voters with its assumption of winning the White House Nov. 8, potentially depressing turnout and spoiling potential victories for Democrats down the ballot.
