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Hillary Rodham Clinton wins D.C. primary

District of Columbia Democratic Primary Results | InsideGov WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win Tuesday in the nation’s capital and a meeting with dispatched rival Bernie Sanders, hoping to set a tone of Democratic unity heading into next month’s party convention in Philadelphia. Clinton’s win in […]

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Orlando Shooting: Fact checking Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump

MORE COVERAGE: Hillary Rodham Clinton to present ‘ambitious new goals’ on economy | Donald Trump to ramp up critique of Hillary Rodham Clinton as failure | Hillary Rodham Clinton vets 3 VP possibilities The presumptive presidential nominees — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump — gave dueling speeches on June 13 in the aftermath of the Orlando mass shooting. […]

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Hillary Rodham Clinton vows to prioritize stopping ‘lone wolf’ attackers

UPDATE: Orlando Shooting: Fact checking Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton vowed Monday to make stopping “lone wolf” terrorists a top priority if elected president, saying that while the shooter in the deadly weekend attacks in Orlando may be dead, “the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive.” In a […]

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Rev. Jesse Jackson endorses Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his support for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in a Saturday afternoon news conference with reporters in Chicago and called for “reconciliation” between her and her rival, Bernie Sanders. Jackson, 74, recalled meeting Clinton in the Mississippi Delta and cited her work with the Children’s Defense Fund and, […]

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Can Hillary Clinton win the presidency?

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton has had a good run in recent days. She delivered her best speech yet, secured the Democratic nomination, beat Bernie Sanders in California and received President Obama’s endorsement. But will this last? Can she win in November? There are scholars who believe that the outcome of a presidential election is […]

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Hillary Rodham Clinton offers feminist attack on Donald Trump

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is offering an unabashedly feminist attack on GOP rival Donald Trump, in her first speech since becoming the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee. Linking abortion rights and birth control to national economic growth, Clinton argues that Trump would take the country back to a time when “when abortion was illegal women had […]

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Weak employment report could affect campaigns

WASHINGTON — Suppose you are advising Hillary Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. What worries you? Well, probably the stubbornness of Bernie Sanders, who won’t admit he’s lost. And, of course, the unpredictability of Donald Trump, whose outlandish pronouncements defy conventional political wisdom. But what really ought to frighten you is the government’s […]

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Susan Collins says voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton is unlikely

.@RyanLizza Just to be clear, as Senator Collins said, it is “unlikely” that she would vote for Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/XGJdABQvQl — Sen. Susan Collins (@SenatorCollins) June 9, 2016 AUGUSTA (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins says she’s open to voting for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Republican frontrunner Donald Trump — but […]

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Hillary Rodham Clinton to hit Donald Trump on women’s issues

WASHINGTON — In her first speech as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton will criticize Donald Trump’s positions on women’s issues, a signal to the Democratic base that she intends to anchor the general election in the same slate of progressive issues she campaigned on in the primary. Clinton is expected to make the […]