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Former Pa. congressman Joe Sestak launches presidential campaign
PHILADELPHIA — Former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak has become the latest Democrat to enter the presidential race. The retired Navy admiral who calls himself “Admiral Joe” on his campaign website joins a crowded Democratic field seeking the nomination to challenge President Donald Trump. He was launching his longshot candidacy Sunday...
New phase in 2020 presidential race tests Dems’ aggression
NEW YORK — The unwritten rules that have so far prevented the Democratic presidential contest from devolving into all-out conflict are about to be tested. The early front-runner , former Vice President Joe Biden, has so far fended off the relatively gentle wrath of his rivals. The shortcomings of his...
Trump sets deadline for asylum changes, vows deportation raidsVideo
WASHINGTON — President Trump gave Democrats two weeks to work on immigration reform and stem the flow of migrants at the southern border, but cast doubt on getting action from Congress and vowed to go ahead with a roundup of people facing deportation. “I want to give the Democrats every...
Trump’s popularity could be tested if Sarah Sanders seeks office
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Press secretary Sarah Sanders seems to be in an enviable position as she leaves the White House for a possible run for governor in her home state of Arkansas. She has the tacit endorsement of a president popular in the state and political connections that go...
Trump denies knowing NY woman accusing him of sexual assault
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says a New York-based advice columnist who claims he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s made a “totally false accusation” against him and he denied knowing the woman. “I have no idea who this woman is,” Trump said...
Trump picks Uniontown native, Army vet Mark Esper to lead Pentagon
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s pick for new Defense secretary is an Army veteran who served in the first Iraq war and also has experience as a national security adviser on Capitol Hill as well as a defense industry lobbyist. Trump announced Friday that he would nominate Mark Esper to lead...
Trump struggles to balance looking tough on Iran with reticence to involve US in conflicts abroad
President Donald Trump considered military strikes against Iran and then called them off at close to the last minute Thursday evening - but it’s not clear he ever really wanted to go through with the attack. The on-again, off-again airstrikes were perhaps the most visible sign yet of the tension...
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 seatVideo
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 formVideo
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 senatorsVideo
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 rallyVideo
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 incidentsVideo
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 fundVideo
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 leakedVideo
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 goneVideo
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...
