WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday a $2 billion annual effort to cure Alzheimer's disease by 2025 as part of her broader healthcare strategy in the 2016 presidential election. The Democratic front-runner says her plan will "prevent, effectively treat…
(ABC News) -- Fifty percent of American voters say they would be “embarrassed” if Donald Trump were president, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. The current Republican frontrunner, whose 28 percent support in this poll tops…
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Tim Scott will finish his goal of visiting all 46 counties in South Carolina in 2015 with several days to spare. Scott plans a trip Tuesday to Dillon County to meet people and business…
(ABC News) -- In one of his most vicious attacks yet against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump used a sexually derogatory remark in reference to her and said that her bathroom break during the last debate was "disgusting."…
(ABC News) -- Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham is dropping out of the 2016 race for the White House. The South Carolina senator, who revealed the news in a CNN interview this morning, is the fourth GOP contender to drop out…
(ABC News) -- We’ve gotten intense interest in our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finding first-time majority…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pushed a year-end tax-cut compromise toward House passage Thursday as Congress prepared to finish 2015 with a flurry of accomplishment and await the partisan collisions sure to dominate the coming election year. House Democratic leader Nancy…
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says the government must work with "brilliant people" in Silicon Valley to keep violent extremists offline, even if it means shutting down parts of the Internet. But what he's proposing isn't possible with today's…
(ABC News) -- "Trump Force One" -- you're fired. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump hinted that if he makes it to the White House, he might ditch his Boeing 757 in favor of an even bigger plane: Air Force One,…
(ABC News) -- The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced today that it was raising short-term rates by a quarter point -- the first increase in nine years. The unanimous decision had been widely expected by investors after Federal Reserveofficials,…
NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican presidential debates continue to be a big television draw, with 18 million people tuning in to the confrontation from Las Vegas on Tuesday night. The Nielsen company said on Wednesday this made it the…
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson this morning issued a seven-point plan to defeat ISIS -- which he calls "Seven Steps to a Safer America" -- calling for Congress to issue a formal declaration of war on the Islamic State. “Our…
(ABC News) -- A young Iraqi Christian girl, whose family has been living in a refugee camp after fleeing ISIS threats, says she forgives the terrorist group and shared her hope for the future. “Yes I forgive them,” Myriam told ABC…
Republicans by more than a 20-point margin support Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States – but independents and Democrats oppose the idea by wide margins, producing a broadly negative reaction among Americans overall. All…
(ABC News) -- Throughout his improbable run for the White House, Bernie Sanders has boasted that he “has never run a negative ad.” That seemed to change over the weekend, when a Washington Post report noted a new digital advertisement…
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