Middle East would be more stable if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power: Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday the Middle East would be more stable if Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were still in power in Libya and Iraq, saying it’s “not even a contest”.
Supreme Court tackles hot social issues as 2016 election looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are set to wade into contentious social matters in their new term beginning on Monday including affirmative action, union powers and voting rights, and could add major cases involving a…
Hillary Clinton pokes fun at herself in ‘Saturday Night Live’ appearance
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton dropped in at the late night comedy show “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday, appearing in a sketch as a bartender alongside comedian Kate McKinnon, who played the former United States senator a…
Clinton gets endorsement of largest U.S. labor union
(Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has been vying with challenger Bernie Sanders for the support of organized labor, scored a win on Saturday with an endorsement from the National Education Association, a huge te…
Obama urges Congress to fund government, Republicans quarrel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday urged the U.S. Congress to take steps soon to fund the federal government in 2016 and raise its nearly exhausted borrowing authority, but acknowledged that Republican political turmoil in Congress…
Obama to look for new gun measures, says ‘talk’ is main tool
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday that he has asked his team to look for new ways to enforce existing regulations to keep guns away from criminals in the wake of the mass shooting in Oregon.
Firefighters union abandons plans to endorse Clinton for president: NY Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Association of Fire Fighters, a politically powerful labor union, has abandoned its initial plans to endorse Democrat Hillary Clinton for U.S. president, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Clinton blasts Patriot Coal bankruptcy plan
Davie, FLORIDA (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday that a bankruptcy plan proposed by Patriot Coal Corp. is “outrageous and must be stopped” because it diverts money intended for coal miners’ retirement benefits.
U.S. judge orders Arkansas to pay Planned Parenthood in narrow ruling
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A U.S. district judge on Friday ordered Arkansas to continue payments to Planned Parenthood for its treatment of three women who challenged Governor Asa Hutchinson’s directive cutting off Medicaid reimbursements to the organization.
After Oregon, gun control could give Clinton clout against Sanders
WASHINGTON/DAVIE, Florida (Reuters) – The Oregon shooting rampage has reignited gun control as an issue in the Democratic presidential race, potentially handing front-runner Hillary Clinton an issue she can use to sway progressives away from challenger…
