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Donald Trump is adding a new figure to the list of people he considers a loser: longtime Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. During a Friday evening stop at a private picnic near Boston, the Republican White House hopeful and real estate mogul suggested that Abedin had shared classified information with her husband, disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner. Abedin, one of Clinton’s longest serving aides and now the vice chairman of her presidential campaign, was Clinton’s deputy chief of staff while she was Secretary of State and one of her most trusted advisers. Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill called Trump’s remarks “patently false,...

Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his charge that disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner is a "perv," adding that he "obviously is psychologically disturbed" and alleging that his wife, Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Hillary Clinton, is passing sensitive information to him. "I think it's a very fair statement that I made and a lot of people have congratulated me," Trump said after an event in Nashville, Tennessee. "(Abedin) is receiving this very, very important information and giving it to Hillary. Well, who else is she giving it to? Her husband has serious problems, and on top of that,...

Before they even enter the ring, Hillary has targeted Jeb and landed punches every time. There are two important campaign developments this week. In the first the Republican presidential debate on Fox News will soon be forgotten after the media herd moves to the next ten news cycles. But in the more important development of the week, it is now clear that Hillary Clinton has targeted Jeb Bush and begun to achieve a mastery over him that augurs well for her prospects of a big victory in a Clinton versus Bush match-up in November 2016. The misguided political play of...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has very noticeably and intensely trained her sights on a single rival candidate for president: Jeb Bush. On Friday, she lambasted Mr. Bush, a former Florida governor, as he waited in the wings at a National Urban League conference in Miami, twisting his campaign slogan into a critique of his stands on the Affordable Care Act and raising the minimum wage. On Tuesday night in Denver, she called him “out of touch” for questioning, earlier that day, how much government should spend on women’s health — a quick insert into a speech in which Mrs. Clinton had...

One of Hillary Clinton’s top aides was reportedly overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules that govern vacation and sick time during her time as an official in the State Department, according to investigators. The Washington Post reports the finding emerged on Friday after Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley sent letters to Secretary of State John Kerry, among others, about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Huma Abedin over her pay.

Jeb Bush and his aides had envisioned a big, inclusive, high-minded speech about race on Friday in his home state of Florida, a chance to bring his message of colorblind opportunity to a prestigious group of African-American leaders. In a rare gesture of bipartisanship, Mr. Bush even planned to warmly quote President Obama, usually the subject of his derision. Then Hillary Rodham Clinton stomped all over those plans. In a biting pre-emptive attack delivered as Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor, waited backstage here at the annual convention of the National Urban League, Mrs. Clinton portrayed him as a hypocrite...

The heavyweights of the crowded 2016 presidential field, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush, laid out starkly different visions Friday for uplifting the plight of blacks in America, as the two appeared at the same event for the first time since they announced their runs for office. Each came to the annual conference of the National Urban League in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to sway a crucial segment of the electorate. -snip- While Florida is Bush’s home state, Clinton clearly had the home-court advantage Friday. Hillary and Bill Clinton have deep ties in the nation’s prominent civil rights groups, and among...

Hillary Clinton launched a broadside today against White House rival Jeb Bush, accusing the Republican in his home state of failing to tackle discrimination or improve conditions for minorities. Clinton spoke at a National Urban League leadership conference north of Miami, where Bush took the same stage nearly an hour later but declined to respond in kind to the Democratic frontrunner's remarks.

She had the advantage of taking the stage first, and Hillary Clinton used it to slam one of the speakers set to follow her, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, charging that his positions on issues critical to the African-American crowd here do not follow from his campaign rhetoric. Speaking at the National Urban League’s conference in Fort Lauderdale Friday morning, Clinton attacked Bush’s record in the state without mentioning him by name. Instead, she attacked his PAC slogan and core mission statement, “Right to Rise.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a pointed broadside against Jeb Bush on Friday, suggesting his positions as a presidential candidate and his actions as governor of Florida had set back the cause of black Americans. Mrs. Clinton mocked Mr. Bush’s favored slogan, “Right to Rise “ — his shorthand for a conservative-minded approach to creating opportunity and name of his “super PAC” — in a speech to a largely black audience at the annual convention of the National Urban League. It was a striking jab given that Mr. Bush is scheduled to take the same stage later on Friday. “I don’t...

Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton come from the highest political pedigree in the United States. And despite the battles their two families have fought against each other, members of the Clintons and the Bushes have formed inextricable bonds. But politics is politics, so when Clinton took the stage on Friday at the National Urban League conference in Fort Lauderdale - just minutes before Bush would address the same audience -- the former secretary of state leveled some of her most direct attacks against the former Florida governor. "I don't think you can credibly say that everyone has a right to...

Rivals Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton will speak at the same event for the first time during the presidential campaign when they deliver their messages to black voters at the National Urban League conference in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, a gathering that will also draw three more 2016 contenders. Bush has frequently said that he will campaign where Republicans often don't venture, including in black communities that overwhelmingly vote Democratic and helped President Barack Obama win the swing state of Florida. But the goal for Bush is to chip away at that loyal blue base in Florida where the outcome...

Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush will be part of a rare bipartisan presidential candidate mashup on Friday in Fort Lauderdale when they speak to the National Urban League conference. Democratic candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders and Republican White House hopeful (and West Palm Beach resident) Ben Carson will also address the black-oriented civil rights organization, which expects 3,500 people at its conference. The candidates are all expected to speak for 20 minutes apiece between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. -snip- “I’m going to go campaign in places where Republicans haven’t been seen in a long, long while,” Bush said...

Together in Fort Lauderdale: Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton to share stage for first time as presidential hopefuls. Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton will appear together next week on the same stage at the same event for the first time since both became presidential candidates. And it will happen in Fort Lauderdale. Style will be scrutinized as much as substance. Body language and rhetorical back-and-forth between Bush and Clinton could be the precursor to what many see as the likely 2016 general election campaign. Lured by the chance to sell themselves to thousands of African-American business and community leaders from...

U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that she did not use a private email account to send or receive classified information while she was secretary of state, in response to a government inspector's letter this week. "I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time," Clinton said at a campaign stop in Iowa. The email controversy has dogged Clinton's bid for the presidency, fuelling worries that the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination has tried to sidestep transparency and record-keeping laws. At least four emails from the private email account that Clinton used while secretary...

The Department of Justice has been asked to open a criminal investigation into the use of a personal email account by Hillary Rodham Clinton while she was secretary of State, after government investigators concluded that classified information may have been mishandled, U.S. officials said. Inspectors general for the State Department and intelligence agencies asked that the investigation be opened after finding that Clinton’s private account potentially contained hundreds of classified emails. The New York Times first reported the request to the Justice Department. Clinton has said repeatedly she did not keep classified information on the account. Her campaign said in...

The New York Times made small but significant changes to an exclusive report about a potential criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's State Department email account late Thursday night, but provided no notification of or explanation for of the changes. The paper initially reported that two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation "into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state." That clause, which cast Clinton as the target of the potential criminal probe, was later changed: the inspectors general now were asking for...

Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled sensitive information through her private e-mail account, according to the New York Times. The Times, citing unnamed “senior government officials,” said Thursday night that the requests had come from the inspectors general for the State Department and intelligence agencies. They concluded that Clinton’s private account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails,” according to the Times. The Department of Justice has made no decision on whether to comply with the requests, the paper said.

Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called the Iranian nuclear deal announced by the Obama administration an "important step" in curtailing the country's nuclear program but stressed that the agreement will have to be "enforced vigorously, relentlessly." "This is a very important moment. The president called me late last night to tell me that agreement has been reached. I applaud him and both Secretary Kerry and Secretary Moniz for their extraordinary efforts in bringing about this conclusion," she told reporters after a meeting with the House Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill. "Based on what I know now,...

RUSH: Do you remember what I said yesterday, folks? I know. I said so much you'll probably wonder, "Yeah, but what are you talking about, Rush?" Remember what I said about Biden, Joe Biden and Hillary yesterday? Remember that? That the real challenge Hillary would face is if Biden decides to get in the race. I mean, they can handle Bernie Sanders, because at the end of the day, behind the scenes, everybody is pretty confident that the Democrat Party is not going to let Bernie Sanders be the nominee. But, Biden, that's a different matter. Again, I need to...