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President Trump at his Tuesday news conference at Trump Tower in New York.

For Jewish Americans, echoes of the Holocaust and anger over Trump’s response to Charlottesville

August 22, 2019 at 12:32 a.m.

Dina Chernick had just arrived for breakfast Thursday at a Jewish deli in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, but she already had a bad case of indigestion. She could thank President Trump...

Amanda Litman pitches Run For Something to an audience of prospective candidates and donors at a house party in Brooklyn Heights.

Trump succeeds where Obama failed — rallying liberals to activism

August 21, 2019 at 11:56 p.m.

The night Hillary Clinton lost the White House, Amanda Litman cried so hard she threw up. In Atlanta, as the returns rolled in, Traci Feit Love faced a question from...

Reaction to shooting at congressional baseball practice reveals a nation that doesn’t just disagree, it hates

August 21, 2019 at 11:45 p.m.

The targeted shooting of Republican lawmakers at play yielded a kaleidoscope of emotions Wednesday — anger, revulsion, horror — but little in the way of surprise. The attack almost seemed...

Speaking at CIA headquarters, President Trump falsely accused the media of creating a feud between himself and the intelligence community.

There’s a long history of presidential untruths. Donald Trump is ‘in a class by himself’

August 21, 2019 at 10:03 p.m.

As president, Ronald Reagan spoke movingly of the shock and horror he felt as part of a military film crew documenting firsthand the atrocities of the Nazi death camps. The...

Police check on a protester after he was pepper sprayed during a demonstration on the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration on Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

Raw, angry and aggrieved, President Trump’s inaugural speech does little to heal political wounds

August 21, 2019 at 9:48 p.m.

There was no pivot. There was no olive branch, no binding of wounds, no lofty summons to the better angels of our nature. The 16-minute inaugural address that President Trump...

Donald Trump shakes hands with hopefuls waiting in line at open auditions for "The Apprentice 2," which drew a large crowd March 18, 2004, in New York.

Democrats ask: Who’ll lead the party from the wilderness, and how?

August 21, 2019 at 9:00 p.m.

When Hillary Clinton lost her White House bid, it was a jagged exclamation mark punctuating several painful years for Democrats. Come January, the party will have at least 11 fewer...

Anthony Miskulin, relaxing under the Huntington Beach Pier, discusses his reasons for voting Trump.

‘We’re called redneck, ignorant, racist. That’s not true’: Trump supporters explain why they voted for him

August 21, 2019 at 8:54 p.m.

When Audrey Kaatz and Ashley Wright finally decided whom to support for president, they kept the choice to themselves. They admired his business sense and blunt-spoken style. But voting for...

Texas Republican Heather Neufeld wants to know where GOP Rep. Will Hurd stands on Donald Trump before supporting his reelection.

Deep in the heart of Texas, Trump has Republicans worried about losing a congressional seat

August 21, 2019 at 8:45 p.m.

Cars were idling bumper-to-bumper in the parking lot, waiting for one of 100 spots to open. A line of more than 90 people snaked through the hallway and out the...

Donald Trump has threatened to bring up Bill Clinton's infidelity and impeachment at the next debate with Hillary Clinton. That concerns some fellow Republicans.

Republicans fear Trump is playing into Clinton’s hands by lashing out on infidelity

August 21, 2019 at 8:20 p.m.

The airwaves and newspaper headlines were filled with talk of infidelity and impeachment. When the votes were counted, the result was a shock: For only the second time since the...

Atlanta barber Karl Booker is strongly behind Hillary Clinton. But customer Dwight Cole wants to hear more about what she would do to help African Americans.

Can Clinton turn Georgia from red to blue? It’s a matter of black and white

August 21, 2019 at 7:59 p.m.

When Donald Trump first announced his run for president, Karl Booker was intrigued. From where he stood, behind a barber's chair in a gentrifying neighborhood near downtown Atlanta, the thought...

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