Trump calls for new civil rights agenda in visit to black church
DETROIT (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stepped up his bid to win over minority voters by addressing a largely black church in Detroit on Saturday and calling for a new civil rights agenda to support African-Americans.
Trump, pushing immigration plan, meets with family of woman killed in 2007
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Donald Trump sought to sell Americans on his tough approach to immigration on Friday, meeting in Philadelphia with the family of a woman who was killed in a 2007 shooting that involved people who came to the United States illeg…
U.S. lawmakers question Mylan’s Medicaid EpiPen rebates
(Reuters) – Two key U.S. congressional committee members on Friday called for an investigation into whether Mylan NV, under fire for raising the price of its EpiPen device, overcharged the government’s low-income healthcare program for the allergy trea…
Trump catches up to Clinton, latest Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit as he consolidated support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released Friday.
New Jersey Governor Christie upends old income tax deal with Pennsylvania
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Christie said on Friday the state would begin taxing income earned by people who work in New Jersey but live in Pennsylvania, ending a long-standing arrangement with the neighboring state.
Mexican senator to propose anti-Trump expropriation law
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican senator is proposing legislation to empower the government to retaliate if a U.S. administration led by Donald Trump inflicts expropriations or economic losses on his country to make it pay for a border wall.
Clinton offers plan to curb ‘unjustified’ price hikes on life-saving drugs
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton said on Friday that if elected to the White House she would create an oversight panel to protect U.S. consumers from large price hikes on long-available, lifesaving drugs and to import alternative treatme…
Maine Senate leaders will not seek special session to chide LePage
BOSTON (Reuters) – (Editor’s note: This story contains language in the second paragraph that may offend readers)
One secret of Trump’s low-cost campaign: free labor
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign, according to a review of federal campaign finance filings.
State Department vetted Bill Clinton’s contacts, emails show
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Clinton Foundation on multiple occasions during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state asked senior U.S. government officials to vet her husband’s contacts with potentially controversial international figures, accordi…
