Jul 21 Watch 5:12 Can Cruz's defiance and other signs of GOP division turn into a plus for Trump? By PBS News Hour In the hours leading up to Donald Trump’s primetime speech to formally accept the Republican Party presidential nomination, the candidate and his team played down one-time primary opponent Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement. Team Trump even predicts the bickering will only help. Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch 12:31 Pence talks Turkey, abortion, Trumponomics, trade and the Supreme Court By PBS News Hour GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence stopped by the NewsHour’s Cleveland digs a day after his primetime debut and went about making the case for Donald Trump. Pence laid out Trump’s positions on NATO, the failed Turkey coup and economy. Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch 12:21 What will Turkey look like under a state of emergency? By Marcia Biggs The failed coup attempt in Turkey has won that nation’s president extraordinary power, in a three-month state of emergency, to impose laws by fiat. Critics fear he will chip away at Turkey's secular constitution. Hari Sreenivasan talks with special correspondent… Continue watching
Jul 21 Pence appears to contradict Trump's stance on NATO in PBS NewsHour interview By Daniel Bush Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Thursday said that the United States would “absolutely” defend its NATO allies, appearing to contradict a statement from Donald Trump the previous night that if he was elected president, the U.S. would reconsider… Continue reading
Jul 21 Sen. Tim Kaine emerges as likely running mate for Hillary Clinton By Ken Thomas, Matthew Barakat, Associated Press The announcement of Clinton's pick could come as early as Friday afternoon in Florida, a crucial general election battleground state. The timing is aimed at shifting attention away from the end of Donald Trump's Republican convention and generating excitement before… Continue reading
Jul 21 Donald Trump may support gay rights, but does the Republican Party? By Josh Lederman, Associated Press While Republicans seek to broaden their appeal ahead of November's election, the party adopted a platform that moves farther away from gay rights with a new admonition of gay parenting, adding language that says kids raised by a mother and… Continue reading
Jul 21 Muslim group considers legal action after Florida Islamic center removed as voting site By Omar Etman A Muslim advocacy group in Florida says it may take legal action over the removal of an Islamic center as a polling place for the presidential election in November. Continue reading
Jul 21 Hundreds of protesters gather for the last day of the RNC By Associated Press As of Thursday morning, police reported 23 protest-related arrests since Monday, well below what law enforcement officials had feared. Seventeen of the arrests came Wednesday, during a melee that erupted during a flag-burning outside an entrance to the convention arena. Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch 25:34 PBS NewsHour/NPR Republican National Convention Special - Day 3 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 21 Which president was gifted two bears? Take our quiz By Meredith P. Garretson Which president got two bear cubs as pets? Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a cameo in which '90s teen TV show? Take our politics quiz on this and more. Continue reading