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President Donald Trump is returning to New Hampshire on Monday, where he’ll be greeted by a cheering Granite State crowd and plenty of good campaign news. Both the latest polls and political events are headed in a positive direction for the former POTUS as he heads to Wolfeboro. Trump is making his fifth appearance of the year in a state where he has the support of 45 percent of GOP primary voters, according to the RealClearAverage polling average, and where his support has been trending higher for weeks. He’s about 31 points ahead of his closest challenger, Nikki Haley, who’s...

2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney will be hosting two rival Republican presidential contenders at a holiday sleepover Friday evening. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will both be staying over at Romney’s property in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, an aide to Romney confirmed. The aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of what the aide called the private nature of the event, said the former governor and his wife opened their home to the Christie and Rubio families after hearing they would be in town for the holiday weekend. Both candidates are scheduled to march...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Some residents of a predominantly white New Hampshire town are upset with racist remarks a police commissioner made about President Barack Obama. Resident Jane O'Toole said she overheard Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland use a racial slur in describing Obama. And in an email to her, Copeland, who is white, acknowledged using the N-word in referring to the president and said he will not apologize. "I believe I did use the 'N' word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse," Copeland said in an excerpt from an email he sent to his fellow police...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose election in May put Washington-Paris relations on the mend, will break from his US vacation to meet with President George W. Bush on Saturday, the White House said. White House spokesman Tony Snow said Wednesday the private meeting between the two at the Bush family's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine could mark a "new era" in the two countries' relationship. The two, along with French first lady Cecilia Sarkozy and her US counterpart Laura Bush, will have a private lunch Saturday in the Bush estate on the Atlantic, Snow said. Sarkozy and his family have...