You’re fired: Trump cuts all lobbyists from transition team
President-elect Trump’s White House transition team is going lobbyist-free.
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Republicans plot to expand on election wins in 2018
Republicans are already plotting how to harness the massive turnout operation that powered Donald Trump to victory last week and to deploy it in 2018, when a favorable map could give the party a chance to expand its Senate majority.
Trump transition battle underway
The stunning upset election of Donald Trump on Tuesday has set off a behind-the-scenes political battle inside the Trump transition team in Washington.
Donald Trump Wins the Presidency
Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States, marking the first time in America’s history that voters have chosen to send a candidate without military or government experience to the Oval Office.
Republicans projected to keep control of Congress
Both chambers of the U.S. Congress are projected to remain under Republican control when they convene on Jan. 3, with voters on Tuesday dashing Democrats’ hopes of taking over the Senate while keeping the House of Representatives in Republican hands.
FBI again clears Clinton in email probe
The FBI cleared Hillary Clinton for a second time Sunday, saying it hasn’t found anything in the latest emails obtained from Huma Abedin’s laptop to change the findings from this summer that the former secretary of state was reckless with classified information but couldn’t be prosecuted for it.
Democrats poised for Senate takeover as unforced errors imperil Republican incumbents
The battle for control of the Senate remains a jump ball just days before elections, with Democrats leading or within striking distances in seven races — more than enough to take the chamber from Republicans.
Clinton, Trump Prepare for Possibility of Election Overtime
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are arming up for a possible post-Election Day battle.
With one week to go, does Trump have a chance?
Donald Trump has seized the momentum with one week to go before Election Day. But is it enough?
FBI reopens Clinton investigation after more emails found
The FBI has told lawmakers that it has found more emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Poll known for accuracy finds Clinton, Trump locked in dead heat
An independent daily tracking survey billed as nation’s most accurate shows Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton knotted in a dead heat even as other polls show her leading the presidential race.
Democrats shift funds to Senate, House races with Clinton confident of victory
Hillary Clinton will enter Wednesday night’s final presidential debate with Democrats having already declared victory in the Nov. 8 election, and analysts say her biggest task in the high-stakes showdown is to avoid any unforced errors against Republican Donald Trump and try to “run out the clock” over the next three weeks.
WikiLeaks Exposes Hillary Clinton Speeches to Goldman Sachs She Wanted to Keep Private
During the primary campaign and now well into general election season, Hillary Clinton has tried to keep paid speeches to the global investment banking company Goldman Sachs under wraps. She was paid $675,000 for three off-the-record discussions in 2013. Her main primary opponent Bernie Sanders and now Republican nominee Donald Trump have charged that she did not want what she said to one of the world’s richest, most influential banks to get to voters.
A House Divided Cannot Stand: Trump Declares War on His Own Party
The Republican civil war escalated Tuesday as Donald Trump trained his fire on down-ballot candidates of his own party.
Leaked Emails Show Hillary, Obama Plans to Mislead Congress on Iran
Senior Clinton campaign officials were in direct contact with the White House to coordinate pro-Iran talking points in an effort to boost last summer’s comprehensive nuclear agreement, according to leaked emails that show the Obama administration and top figures in Clinton’s campaign played a role in promulgating information about the deal that later turned out to be factually inaccurate.
Clinton: Trump is unfit to serve; Trump: She’s heading to jail
The gloves came off in the second presidential debate, as Donald Trump suggested Hillary Clinton belonged in jail while she said he was unfit to serve unlike any previous Republican nominee.
FBI files reveal missing email ‘boxes’ in Clinton case, allegations of evidence tampering
The details about the boxes are contained in five pages of the FBI file – with a staggering 111 redactions – that summarize the statements of a State Department witness who worked in the “Office of Information Programs and Services (IPS).” The employee told the FBI that, “Initially, IPS officials were told there were 14 bankers boxes of former Secretary of State Hillary CLINTON’s emails at CLINTON’s Friendship Heights office.” Friendship Heights is a neighborhood that straddles the Northwest neighborhood of the District of Columbia and Maryland.
Kaine, Pence trade blows over ‘insult-driven campaigns’ in VP debate
Mike Pence and Tim Kaine scrambled to defend their running mates’ temperament and judgment at their first and only face-off Tuesday night – an unruly 90-minute session in which the vice presidential candidates routinely talked over each other – and the moderator – as they channeled some of the feistiness from last week’s opening presidential debate.
Pence tries to woo Evangelical Christians for Trump
Mike Pence musters all of his Midwestern earnestness as he describes Donald Trump as “a man of faith.” He says the Republican nominee is “a man I’ve prayed with and gotten to know on a personal level.”
State Department to release Clinton emails just before election
The State Department said Wednesday it will process an additional 1,850 pages of Hillary Clinton’s secret emails and release the parts that can be made public on Nov. 3, just ahead of the election.