elections

Clinton Returns To Ohio To Share Vision For Equitable Economy

4:30pm October 03, 2016

by Asma Khalid

Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Ohio on Monday for the first time in weeks. She plans to discuss her vision for a more equitable economy as well as Donald Trump's taxes. Ohio is a state whose demographics favor Donald Trump with a greater number of blue collar white voters. Hillary Clinton has not been in Ohio in weeks but recently received the endorsement of hometown NBA hero LeBron James.

Trump Visits Colorado In Effort To Close Gap In Polls

4:30pm October 03, 2016

by Scott Detrow

Republican nominee Donald Trump is campaigning in Colorado Monday, following revelations that he would have been able to excuse himself from income tax payments for 18 years.

Clinton, Trump Present Starkly Different Messages On The Middle Class

4:30pm October 03, 2016

by Tamara Keith

The middle class is often the rhetorical focus of presidential candidates, but Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump discuss it in very different ways.

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Vice Presidential Debates Provide Memorable Moments Of Campaigns Past

4:30pm October 03, 2016

by Ron Elving

Vice presidential debates are rarely consequential in elections, but they have provided some of the most indelible moments from campaigns in the past.

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Donald Trump answers a question during an interview in Virginia Beach, Va., in July.

New York Attorney General: Trump Charitable Foundation Violated The Law

4:30pm October 03, 2016

by Joel Rose

Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is requiring the Trump Foundation to stop fundraising in New York because it does not have the proper certification to do so.

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In This Campaign, Clinton, Trump Flash Their Racial Credentials

3:50pm October 03, 2016

by Kat Chow

Experts call it "affiliative kinships" and the "opposite of othering;" whatever you call it, when race comes up in presidential race, the candidates feel the need to establish their racial cred.

Politics & Government

How Trump's Candidacy Has Divided Conservative Media

1:41pm October 03, 2016

"There has never been a Republican nominee who has split the party and its media personalities" in the way that Donald Trump has, says New York Times reporter Robert Draper.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her chambers in Washington, D.C.

No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Does Not Intend To Retire Anytime Soon

11:26am October 03, 2016

by Nina Totenberg

"I will retire when it's time," the 83-year-old Supreme Court justice said in an interview with NPR. She also shares wedding advice from her mother-in-law and reads a letter from her late husband.

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Donald Trump poses for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange in June 1995.

Trump's Financial Moves In The '90s: 'Genius' Or 'Colossal Failure'?

7:59am October 03, 2016

by Marilyn Geewax

The 1990-91 recession was catastrophic for Donald Trump's empire. A tax document published by The New York Times shows as late as 1995, he was reporting an annual loss of $916 million. What happened?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania. That's the same day a report came out showing Trump may not have paid income taxes for most of two decades.

Tax Returns, Threats Of Hacks: Surprise! It's October

6:12am October 03, 2016

by Domenico Montanaro

The "October surprise" has a long history in American politics, but not as long as you might think — and not as consequential as you might think, either.