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EVERETT, Wash. >> In a surprise move, Donald Trump will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto, just hours before the Republican delivers a highly anticipated speech on immigration. Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say he looks “very much forward” to meeting with the Mexican leader. Pena Nieto’s office confirmed the meeting with its own tweet, saying the two men would meet privately. The unexpected trip comes as Trump seeks to clarify his stand on illegal immigration, a contentious issue that has been a centerpiece of his Republican presidential campaign. Trump has long called for deporting people currently living in the U.S. illegally and buil...

Late Sunday night, Twitter was abuzz with reports of an active shooter at Los Angeles Inteational Airport and evacuations at several terminals. Police later reported that there was no shooter, but those who were evacuated were required to pass through TSA security again, flights were delayed and traffic backed up around LAX. Reports of an active shooter at LAX briefly shifted the Twitterverse’s focus away from the VMA’s Sunday night. • Related Story: Unfounded fears of shooting at LAX create panic, chaos, gridlock Just before 9 p.m. hundreds reported being evacuated from LAX’s terminals for what they said was an active shooter situation. Within an hour, police officials reported there was n...

While a majority of Americans see undocumented immigrants in a positive light, a new poll found that staunch Donald Trump supporters have a more threatening view of people who are in the U.S. without legal status. More than 76 percent of those surveyed said undocumented immigrants are as hardworking and honest as U.S. citizens, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. And, 67 percent said undocumented immigrants are no more likely than citizens to commit serious crimes. Also, 61 percent oppose building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Trump backers offer a different perspective. The poll, released Aug.u200925, found that half of all Trump supporters surveyed said u...

JACKSON, Miss. — Republican nominee Donald Trump is linking his “movement to take back the country” to Britain’s surprising vote to leave the European Union. The architect of the withdrawal campaign, known as Brexit, took up Trump’s invitation to join the GOP presidential nominee on stage during a rally late Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi. “If I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me,” said Nigel Farage, the outgoing leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party. “You have a fantastic opportunity here,” he told members of the audience. “You can go out, you can beat the pollsters, you can beat the commentators, you can beat Washington, and you’ll do ...

More than a year after the Califoia Coastal Commission halted the demolition of three waterfalls at Trump National Golf Club, the club was given a go-ahead this week by commission staff to move forward with restoration work. The initial infraction stemmed from demolition work at three man-made waterfalls at Trump National. The club had received a building permit from the city of Rancho Palos Verdes in April 2015, but didn’t get approval from the Coastal Commission for construction work inside the coastal zone. Parts of the course are home to protected bird species, including the Califoia gnatcatcher, which nests exclusively in the coastal sage scrub along a limited range of the Califoia coa...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump and his Republican allies say Hillary Clinton is weak, lacks stamina and doesn’t look presidential. Intent on undermining his Democratic rival, Trump and GOP backers are increasingly relying on rhetoric that academics and even some Republican strategists say has an undeniable edge focused on gender. His criticism of Clinton goes beyond “Crooked Hillary,” and complaints about her use of a private email server as secretary of state and her foreign policy decisions. Clinton, Trump said in a speech last week, “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS and all the many adversaries we face.” He has repeatedly called attention to Clinton’s voice, saying listenin...

WILMINGTON, N.C. >> Donald Trump said Tuesday that Second Amendment advocates might find a way to stop Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she’s elected, setting off a political firestorm as Democrats quickly accused him of encouraging violence against his opponent. Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, the Republican nominee said incorrectly his general election opponent wants to “abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment.” He continued: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” Trump did not elaborate on his meaning. But within minutes, Clinton’s campaign and ...

Peter Navarro, a professor of economics and public policy at UCu2009Irvine’s business school, is emerging as one of the most visible advocates of Donald Trump’s economic platform. “My role is to make sure the analysis is rock solid, the facts are rock solid,” said Navarro, 67, who is the only economist from academia on the 13-member advisory team aounced by the Trump campaign last week. The group includes several real estate executives, private equity and hedge-fund managers, a Texas banking tycoon, a billionaire oil company magnate and a former Reagan administration deputy assistant treasury secretary. “Whatever they need, I analyze the economic data,” Navarro added in an interview Monday....

DETROIT >> Trying to tu the page after a tumultuous campaign stretch, Donald Trump promised he would provide deep tax cuts and jolt middle-class workers back to prosperity. Trump’s speech Monday to the Detroit Economic Club reflected the Republican presidential nominee’s attempt to reboot and redirect the national conversation to his strength: the economy. Trump offered these new policy specifics: Taxes: Individuals Trump would consolidate the current seven individual income tax brackets for American down to three: 12u2009percent, 25u2009percent and 33u2009percent of income after deductions. Trump revamped his previous proposal by increasing the amount that the highest individual inco...

DETROIT — Donald Trump is focusing his economic message on boosting jobs and making America more competitive globally by cutting business taxes, reducing regulations and increasing energy production. With a speech Monday to the Detroit Economic Club, the Republican presidential nominee seeks to reset his campaign and delve into a subject — the economy — that is seen as one of his strengths. It also is aimed at showing that he is a serious candidate despite a disastrous stretch that has prompted criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. Trump has been immersed in controversy over his repeated criticism of a Muslim-American family whose son, an Army captain, was killed in Iraq, and his ...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Saturday that the results of November’s U.S. presidential election could weigh heavily on his city’s chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics, saying that a victory by Donald Trump could tu off IOC voters. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Garcetti also said Los Angeles could offer “the last best hope” for the United States to host the Summer Olympics again before the American people begin “tuning out” from the games. Garcetti, a 45-year-old Democrat and supporter of Hillary Clinton, is in Brazil to observe the Rio de Janeiro Games and pitch his city’s bid to members of the Inteational Olympic Committee. One of the main topics of conversati...

There was the Khan family controversy, the reluctance to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, the sagging poll numbers in swing states and more prominent Republicans seemingly endorsing Hillary Clinton with increased frequency because they fear a Donald Trump presidency. But Friday Trump finally endorsed Ryan in his re-election bid after days of refusing to do so, and some of the die-hard backers of the reality television star and real estate magnate hoped it signaled the begiing of the end of what has been a tumultuous several days since he accepted the party’s nomination for president. Erik Laykin, executive director of LA Trump, said Trump needs to get on track soon or risk losing in Novembe...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump faced an all-too-clear sign of GOP divisions Friday in two Midweste battlegrounds, embraced by party leaders in one state but ignored in another as he strained to overcome deepening conces about his presidential candidacy. Some of Iowa’s Republican elite will appear alongside the celebrity businessman for an afteoon rally, his third appearance in the swing state over the past two weeks. But in neighboring Wisconsin, a state Trump insists he can win, the state’s best-known Republicans said they were too busy to attend his evening event. Sen. Ron Johnson and House Speaker Paul Ryan citied scheduling conflicts, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he’ll attend...

PORTLAND, Maine >> Back on the defensive, Donald Trump’s campaign chief acknowledged conflict inside Trump Tower on Thursday as anxious Republicans struggled to shift voters’ attention to Hillary Clinton’s record on foreign policy. The feud between the GOP’s presidential nominee and House Speaker Paul Ryan continued to overshadow the attacks on Clinton, underscoring the rising conces from party leaders over the New York billionaire’s unorthodox candidacy and its impact on the future of the Republican Party. Trump refused for another day to endorse the Republican speaker. Ryan, meanwhile, publicly declared his support for Trump, but said such endorsements aren’t “blank checks” and pled...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Republicans’ frustration with Donald Trump has reached new heights, with party leaders scrambling to persuade their presidential nominee to abandon divisive tactics that have triggered sinking poll numbers and low morale. Party chairman Reince Priebus is appealing to the New York billionaire’s adult children to help amid new signs of a campaign in trouble. Trump’s operation has been beset by inteal discord, including growing conce about general election preparedness and a lack of support from Republican leaders, according to two people familiar with the organization’s ier workings. One of the people said Trump privately blames his own staff for failing to quiet the bac...

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge refused to release video of Donald Trump testifying in a lawsuit alleging fraud by the now-defunct Trump University, denying critics of the Republican presidential nominee a chance to use potentially powerful images against him. Transcripts of Trump’s depositions have been released over the last few months but videos remained sealed. Attoeys suing the business mogul have said his tone, facial expressions, gestures and body language show “complete and utter unfamiliarity” with Trump University’s instructors and instruction and that he made “many spontaneous and ad hominem remarks that are not reflected in the paper transcript of his depositions.” U.S. District Jud...

WASHINGTON >> In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say enough.” While Obama has long been critical of Trump, his blistering condemnation Tuesday was a notable escalation of his involvement in the presidential race. Obama questioned whether Trump would “observe basic decency” as president, argued he lacks elementary knowledge about domestic and inteational affairs and condemned his disparagement of an American Muslim couple whose son was killed while serving ...

WASHINGTON >> Angry and anxious, Republican lawmakers and veterans groups hastened to disavow Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of a bereaved military family Monday, but the GOP presidential nominee refused to back down. He complained anew that he had been “viciously attacked” by the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq. Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war, led the charge, saying Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.” The Veterans of Foreign Wars, the nation’s oldest and largest veterans organization, called Trump out of bounds for tangling with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed in 2004. “Ele...

NEW YORK — Fellow Republicans are joining the rising chorus of criticism of Donald Trump for his disparagement of the bereaved parents of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim who was awarded a Bronze Star after he was killed in 2004 in Iraq. The roll of GOP senators publicly taking Trump to task reached at least five on Monday, including John McCain of Arizona, who said in a statement that the fact that Trump won his party’s nomination doesn’t give him “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.” Pat Toomey of Pesylvania said the Khans “deserve our gratitude and honor; anything else is inappropriate.” The other three senators, all ruing for re-election and distancing th...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio >> Donald Trump sparked bipartisan backlash after the Republican attacked the bereaved parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who spoke at the Democratic convention last week. Critics from both parties on Saturday questioned whether Trump had the empathy and understanding to be president, particularly after he questioned why mouing mother Ghazala Khan stayed silent during her husband’s Thursday night address. “He was kind of trying to tu that into some kind of ridicule,” Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said after a campaign event in Pittsburgh. “It just demonstrates again kind of a temperamental unfitness. If you don’t have any more sense of empathy than ...