Elections 2016

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With mothers of police violence victims on the stage and anti-gun protesters in the streets, Hillary Clinton and Democrats are giving gun control and efforts to curb police violence a starring role at their summer convention...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Breaking a historic barrier, Democrats triumphantly chose Hillary Clinton as their White House nominee Tuesday night, the first woman ever to lead a major political party into the general election. Delegates erupted in cheers as Clinton's primary rival, Bernie Sanders, helped make it official when the roll call got to his home state of Vermont — an important show of unity for a

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Clinton was once the Democrats explainer-in-chief, electrifying the convention crowd with his support of President Barack Obama. Today, he increasingly seems to be explaining himself. In the four years since the party's last national convention, the center of gravity in Democratic politics has shifted decidedly to the left...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A glass ceiling is shattering at the Democratic National Convention as Hillary Clinton ascends to the presidential nomination with Tuesday's roll call of the states, making her the first woman to lead a major party into a White House race...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Angry Democrats heckled outgoing party chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz with boos and cries of "shame!" Monday as the party tried to move past an embarrassing email controversy and heal divisions as this week's national convention begins...

Cleveland rocks, at least it did last night at the Republican National Convention.  Ted Cruz took an invitation from nominee Donald Trump to speak last night and then failed to deliver an endorsement to the overwhelming boos of the delegates. ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Nomination finally in hand, the Donald Trump campaign charged ahead Wednesday with a convention-week mission to redefine its brash celebrity leader as a serious-minded family man. It's a project proving harder than uniting skeptical Republicans behind their distaste for another brand they know well: The Clintons...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, is a “dream candidate” for agriculture, according to the former president of the Indiana Farm Bureau. Agri-Pulse reports that Don Villwock, who recently retired after more than a decade as president of the bureau, says he's been impressed in his dealings with Pence, both as a governor and a congressman... Read Mo

Eighteen-year-old Jack Pickett of Yakima is attending the Republican National convention in Cleveland today. The West Valley High School graduate is among 41 state delegates and one of the youngest in the country attending the convention. Pickett says he's representing millennials...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Barring a last-minute jolt to the proceedings, Donald Trump is hours away from attaining the 2016 presidential nomination despite efforts to stop him that spilled messily into the opening of the Republican National Convention...