Hillary Clinton Alleged Barack Obama Sold Access To Big Donors; Now...
In the closing stretch of the New Hampshire primary campaign, Hillary Clinton has slammed critics for pointing out that she backed public policies that helped her major campaign contributors in the...
View ArticleElection 2016: Wall Street Loans To Ted Cruz Under New Scrutiny
Days before New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, the Federal Election Commission asked Republican Ted Cruz to provide more details about the loans he received from major Wall Street banks...
View ArticleNew Hampshire 2016: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders Get Bang For Their Buck In...
Donald Trump didn’t have to spend much of his huge real estate fortune to win the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary Tuesday. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, won the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Plans To Raise Money From Industries With Interests Before...
In conceding defeat in Tuesday’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton cast herself as an opponent of money’s influence in politics, a future president who would challenge corporate power....
View ArticleHillary Clinton Endorsed By Congressional Black Caucus's Corporate-Backed...
The political action committee of the Congressional Black Caucus announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton on Thursday, giving the former secretary of state a potential boost in her bid to win over...
View ArticleBernie Sanders PAC Funded The Democratic Party Establishment
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has presented himself as a crusader against the Democratic Party establishment and a critic of the traditional fundraising instruments that fuel modern campaigns....
View ArticleHillary Clinton Says She Does Not Coordinate With Super PAC She Reportedly...
Hillary Clinton on Thursday night took offense at suggestions that she had anything to do with a political organization backing her presidential bid and raking in millions from financial industry...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Presses Hillary Clinton To Demand DNC Keep Ban On Lobbyist Cash
Hours after last week’s Democratic presidential debate, where candidates criticized money’s influence over politics, word leaked that the Democratic National Committee was overturning President Barack...
View ArticlePoliticians React To The Passing Of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
UPDATE: 8:29 p.m. EST -- Hillary Clinton tweeted the following statement on the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: "My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Justice...
View ArticleAntonin Scalia: Supreme Court Vacancy May Raise Stakes Of 2016 Election
If Republicans have their way, President Barack Obama won’t get to fill the sudden vacancy at the U.S. Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. GOP leaders’ insistence that the next...
View ArticleGOP Debate: Republican Presidential Candidates Finally Get Questions On Wall...
For the first time since November, a Republican presidential debate featured a question about Wall Street. Though Democratic candidates have discussed at length the financial industry’s influence in...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Took Money From Big Lobbying Groups, Returned Corporate PAC...
Bernie Sanders says he’s never taken money from corporate political action committees. An International Business Times review of federal elections records supports that claim — but Sanders has taken...
View ArticleBernie Sanders' Economic Plans Questioned By Critics With Ties To Wall...
Four former chairs of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers on Wednesday questioned the economic plan proposed by Bernie Sanders, as did a prominent Democratic senator. Two of those economists...
View ArticleElection 2016: Chris Christie’s Billionaire Backers Now Available To Back...
On Chris Christie’s way to getting crushed in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, the super PAC supporting his campaign pulled in big money from a handful of billionaire donors. So did the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Says She’ll Release Paid Speech Transcripts If Opponents Do Too
Under increasing pressure from Sen. Bernie Sanders to disclose what she said in paid speeches, Hillary Clinton said she’d release the transcripts if all her opponents do, too. Asked during CNN’s...
View ArticleDespite Walmart Ties, Support For Free Trade, Hillary Clinton Touts...
With a series of Rust Belt primaries on the horizon, Hillary Clinton’s campaign Thursday planned a conference call with reporters to tout what it calls Clinton’s “lifelong commitment to the...
View ArticleChris Christie’s Control Of New Jersey Could Help Conceal Donald Trump’s Record
There is little concrete evidence New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s endorsement of Republican front-runner Donald Trump will help Trump significantly among rank-and-file voters: Christie’s team spent...
View ArticleHillary Clinton 2016: DC Lobbyists Set To Raise Cash For Hillary Victory Fund
The Democratic National Committee’s recent move to end its ban on contributions from federal lobbyists was widely seen as a boost to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which has ties to the Washington...
View ArticleTrump’s Tax Returns: The Last Hope For His Opponents?
Now that Donald Trump has taken a commanding lead in the Republican presidential race, the best hopes for opponents to defeat the real estate mogul may lie in his tax returns. Trump, who is largely...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Says Federal Rules Are Being Unduly Influenced By Corporate...
When a bill is signed into law, that’s not where the legal process ends: Typically, federal agencies then must design myriad rules for its implementation, and do so in consultation with the American...
View ArticleHillary Clinton, Before Spotlighting Crisis In Flint, Michigan, Voted Against...
When the Democratic presidential contenders meet on Sunday for their debate in Flint, Michigan — where thousands of residents have been poisoned by polluted water — the candidates’ records on clean...
View ArticleDonald Trump Gave Money To Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, George Bush, John McCain
Donald Trump faced scrutiny over his past support for Democratic politicians in Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz leveled a series of attacks on the real estate...
View ArticleElection 2016: Campaigns Saved Cash On Super Saturday For Races In Michigan,...
If Super Saturday’s election results are to be believed, the Republican presidential primary is shaping up to be a two-man race between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton can’t be slowed...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Said Outsourcing ‘Benefited’ America After She Criticized...
In advance of Sunday’s debate in Flint, Michigan, Hillary Clinton has promised to get tough on companies that offshore U.S. jobs, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has ratcheted up his criticism of her...
View ArticleNorth Korea Threatens ‘Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike’ Against US, South Korea
North Korea has threatened to launch a “pre-emptive nuclear strike” against the United States and South Korea if the countries conduct joint military drills scheduled to start Monday, Agence...
View ArticleElection 2016: Hillary Clinton Says Her Vote For Wall Street Bailout Shows...
In her attempt to win Tuesday's presidential primary in Michigan, Hillary Clinton has pioneered an innovative new message amid rising anti-Wall Street sentiment: At debates and in a campaign ad, she is...
View ArticleElection 2016: Ohio State’s Urban Meyer Endorses John Kasich After...
As Ohio’s governor in his second term, John Kasich has inherent advantages in his state’s Republican presidential primary election March 15 — and one of those advantages was on public display Thursday,...
View ArticleCampaign Donations Could Keep ‘Carried Interest’ Tax Loophole Open
New York legislators announced Monday they’re introducing a bill to end a perk that lets financial executives pay a significantly lower tax rate than most Americans. Eliminating the so-called “carried...
View ArticleTuesday Primary Election 2016: Marco Rubio Spent Big In Florida But Came Up...
The presidential campaigns and their associated super PACs spent almost $54 million on television ads in the weeks before Tuesday’s primary elections in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois and...
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