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A new USA Today poll reveals that Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has dropped to 5 points, 45.6% to 40.4%. Clinton had led Trump by 11 points in May, 50% TO 39%.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) assured CNN State of the Union guest host Brianna Keilar that Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong in her e-mail scandal, and that there was nothing improper about Bill Clinton’s meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel died on Saturday at the age of 87. He was a living witness to the horrors of antisemitism taken to its logical conclusion, and a powerful spokesman for the cause of Zionism and the ideals of America.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post on Friday that she regretted her decision to meet former President Bill Clinton secretly in her official airplane at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on Tuesday.

Donald Trump has a “Mormon problem.” He is barely ahead of Hillary Clinton in Utah, and actually behind in Arizona, a strong Republican state with a large Mormon population. Various theories have been floated as to why Mormon voters are reluctant to

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) praised former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday — the day after the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has criticized Donald Trump for promising to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. But Zuckerberg is now facing criticism for his neighbors for building a half-mile-long stone wall around his new Hawaii estate.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters on Tuesday that the “Brexit” is irreversible, pouring cold water on efforts to keep the United Kingdom inside the European Union.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi report contains at least one major bombshell: the committee found no evidence of the “three directives” that President Barack Obama claimed he issued when he first learned about the ongoing terror attack.

The U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi released its final report on Tuesday morning, comprising some 800 pages of investigations and conclusions that suggest former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration were derelict in their duty to protect American diplomats from the most significant terror attack on the U.S. since Sep. 11, 2001.

The Los Angeles Times is blaming right-wing extremists for violence started by left-wing extremists on Sunday in Sacramento and at other rallies throughout the state.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had harsh words for Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook over his plans to host a fundraiser Tuesday evening for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI).

The Oakland City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to ban the storage, handling and export of coal from a new port terminal. The council did so despite the prospect of 1,000 construction jobs, and 120 permanent jobs, at the terminal site.

Judge Richard A. Posner, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, has published an op-ed at Slate declaring that the U.S. Constitution is a waste of time.

The truth: it takes no courage to tell an audience of black entertainers that white America is the problem. If Williams had dared tell them not to use the N-word; not to glorify violence; or to honor cops protecting black communites — that would have been courage.

I support Donald Trump — not a remarkable statement, considering I am a Republican voter he is the party’s likely nominee. I’m critical of Trump, more so than previous nominees, but I think some of his supposed drawbacks are actually benefits.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald J. Trump has only lost 2 percentage points to likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, despite enduring a series of media controversies and the firing of his campaign manager.

Last year, political commentator George F. Will won recognition for standing up to political correctness. This year, he is enforcing it.

The stunning victory of the “Brexit” campaign last week, which heralds the departure of Britain from the European Union, has excited movements for national sovereignty across Europe — and a secessionist movement in California as well.

Democrats are worried that Brexit, the poll-defying British vote last Thursday to leave the European Union, could portend victory for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election in November.

President Barack Obama has a poor record when it comes to intervening in foreign elections. His clumsy attempt in April to encourage British voters to choose to remain in the European Union may have backfired, after Obama threatened that Britain would be sent to the “back of the queue” in trade relations with the U.S. if it chose Brexit. He repeated the mistakes of his effort to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s 2015 elections, which likewise delivered a poll-defying rebuke.

Thursday’s Supreme Court decisions are a reminder of what is at stake in the November election — and mark a crisis, or moment of truth, for the #NeverTrump movement.

British Prime Minister David Cameron emerged from 10 Downing Street on Friday morning to accept the results of the Brexit referendum — and to account that he will resign his post by the Conservative Party conference in October.

British voters chose to “leave” the European Union on Thursday, defying the polls — and President Barack Obama, who had urged Britain to “remain” in the EU. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had also urged Britain to stay in the EU. Only Donald Trump had backed the campaign to leave.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who participated in the protest, sent a message to supporters while literally on the House floor,

The lawyer who argued and lost U.S. v. Texas, the case for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty at the U.S. Supreme Court called for “righteous anger” to be aimed at the U.S. Senate for refusing to confirm Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination.

As California Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman spoke Wednesday evening during an unprecedented “sit-in” on Capitol Hill to demand a vote on gun control, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) interrupted him, shouting: “Radical Islam killed these people!”

Left-wing Democrats have a new conspiracy theory: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) actually won the California primary, but was robbed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Last week, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) delivered the following remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

National Public Radio political correspondent Mara Liasson has praised Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday for its effective attacks on Hillary Clinton, calling it “the speech Republicans have been waiting 20 years to hear.”

Donald Trump’s speech Wednesday morning did more than attack rival Hillary Clinton over her corruption and her foreign policy record. It also laid out a clear choice for voters between the status quo in Washington, and a unique chance for change.

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company, joined by labor and environmental interests, announced that it will close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant by 2025 — long before the end of its useful life, and despite ongoing state power shortages.

Two fires broke out on Monday near Los Angeles in the midst of sweltering heat on the first day of summer, forcing local residents to evacuate and sending billowing clouds of grey smoke into the clear blue skies above the city.

This is more than just the latest effort of the Obama administration to deny the reality of “radical Islamic terror.” It is a political tactic to make “Islamophobia” — i.e. prejudice against Muslims — the real question, in time for the 2016 elections.

The California Democratic Party’s executive board voted unanimously Sunday to urge the national party to eliminate most superdelegates and caucuses in favor of a more straightforward primary election system to select the presidential nominee.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch revealed Sunday that the government will release the transcripts of the 911 calls made by the Orlando terrorist during the attack last Sunday — scrubbed of any references to Islam or the Islamic State (ISIS).