Billionaire businessman and media personality Donald Trump will be center stage among 11 top contenders at Wednesday’s second 2016 Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Los Angeles. With the bombastic, self-promoting Trump maintaining large lead in numerous voter opinion polls, most of his rivals are expected to aggressively engage him during […]
WASHINGTON—Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has scored the top spot for Thursday night’s first debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential race. He will be joined by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and seven other Republican contenders who made the campaign’s first cut. Host Fox News announced the 10 GOP White House hopefuls […]
WASHINGTON—The first Republican presidential debate will take place in the Ohio city of Cleveland on August 6, and a mad scramble is underway among some of the contenders who fear they will be excluded from the event. Under the debate rules, only 10 of the 16 Republican contenders will be allowed to take part in […]
South Carolina’s House of Representatives is debating a bill to remove the Civil War-era Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds, where it has flown for more than 50 years. The bill, backed by both Democrats and Republicans, was approved 36 to 3 by the state Senate on Tuesday. During Wednesday’s debate, the House rejected […]