Politics

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton adamantly refuted the accusation that she accepted donations from the fossil fuel industry at an event in Purchase, New York.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was left off the ballot for the upcoming Washington, D.C. primary because of a registration error by the district's Democratic Party, but the chairwoman is confident the candidate would appear on the slate, reports CNN Politics.

Donald Trump on Wednesday said that women who have abortions should face "some form of punishment," igniting a firestorm of protests from both Democrats and Republicans that prompted him to quickly back away from the comment, NPR reports.

After vowing to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz appeared to back down from the pledge during a Tuesday night town hall broadcast on CNN, according to NBC News.

Donald Trump's 42-year-old campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is facing a simple assault charge after he reportedly grabbed a reporter who tried to ask the candidate a question at an event in March in Jupiter, Florida, according to USA Today.

Since Donald Trump entered the 2016 presidential race, it has been difficult to determine if life is imitating art or if art is imitating life. In either case, the Republican presidential front-runner's foreign policy plan, which was released over the Easter holiday, is a dead ringer for something that could have been released by his transgressive political double on Netflix: Frank Underwood, the fictitious president on House Of Cards, who is played by actor Kevin Spacey.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed victories in Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, scooping up key delegates in the primary race against front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Turns out "professional political activists" and their well-printed signs are all the confirmation Hatch needed to go forth in good faith obstructing Garland’s nomination to the highest court in the land.

Most Democrats (80 percent) back Garland, while 45 percent of the overall public have a positive outlook about his nomination.

The sisters may have taken it a bit too far this time. Diamond and Silk appeared on a radio show with White nationalist John Friend, who, the news site points out, is a "Holocaust denier" who has said the only "real Americans" are White people and who often uses his blog, The Realist Report, to spew "racist and anti-Semitic views."

Through civic engagement, Congressman Bishop believes we will be able to "wake up" leaders in our community and get them involved in the challenges we're facing and "the urgency of meeting these challenges."

Here are just some examples of the horrifying things the two candidates have said in the wake of the attack that prove they are using the tragedy as political gain...or as a continuation of their xenophobic rhetoric.