Aug. 10, 2016, 5:33 p.m.
The code has been cracked.
Donald Trump's campaign has revolved largely around his Twitter presence. Many of his tweets are a mix of the enthusiastic, colorful and vitriolic. But not all of them. Some are downright dull. Some sound like campaign press releases. What gives?
Apparently, he's not the only one with the keys.
Aug. 10, 2016, 8:31 p.m.
Donald Trump called President Obama the “founder” of Islamic State on Wednesday, the latest in a series of remarks suggesting that Obama sympathized with Muslim terrorists in the Middle East.
“ISIS is honoring President Obama,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., using an acronym for Islamic State. “He is the founder of ISIS.”
After making the allegation twice more, Trump added, “And I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.”
Aug. 10, 2016, 7:34 p.m.
Wasn’t it terrible, Donald Trump asked supporters at a Florida rally Wednesday night, that the father of the killer of 49 people in an Orlando nightclub “was sitting with a big smile on his face right behind Hillary Clinton” at a campaign event?
The attack turned into an embarrassing gaffe for Trump: Seated just behind him in the audience in Fort Lauderdale was former Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, a Republican who resigned after he was caught sending sexually explicit email messages to young male congressional pages.
On Monday, Seddique Mateen, whose son Omar was the Orlando terrorist, was seated in nearly the exact same spot behind Clinton at her rally in Kissimmee, Fla.
Aug. 10, 2016, 5:56 p.m.
A young man who said he had to discuss an important matter with Donald Trump climbed about 20 stories of the Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday, using suction cups to scale the building before police officers dragged him through a window to safety.
Once in custody, the climber did not express any intent to cause harm, according to NYPD officials.
Officials did say the man, who is from Virginia, wanted to meet with Trump and posted a YouTube video on Thursday asking for a meeting.
Aug. 10, 2016, 4:03 p.m.
Aug. 10, 2016, 2:47 p.m.
Donald Trump told supporters in Appalachian coal country on Wednesday that Hillary Clinton would be a “horror show” for miners as he sought to move past the controversy over his statement that gun enthusiasts could block his Democratic rival from naming judges.
The presidential election in November will be “the last shot for the miners,” the Republican nominee told the audience at a rally in Abingdon, Va. “The mines will be gone if she gets elected.”
Trump, who was uncharacteristically subdued, has vowed to scrap federal rules that curb the burning of coal in order to reduce the emission of gases that cause global warming. Trump once called climate change a hoax created by China to harm U.S. manufacturing, but has avoided the topic during the campaign.
Aug. 10, 2016, 2:29 p.m.
Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin, a virtual must-win state for the Republican, and now outpaces him by 15 points among likely voters, the state's leading poll has found.
The numbers from the latest Marquette Law School poll in Wisconsin are the latest in a series of surveys that show Clinton with strong leads in states that will be crucial for the November election. Clinton leads Trump 52%-37% among likely voters, the survey found; that's up from a 4-point lead, 45%-41% last month.
Trump's strategists have argued that he can win the election by appealing to working-class white voters in industrial states from Pennsylvania through Ohio and Michigan to Wisconsin. So far, however, the latest polls show him trailing in each of those states, often by large margins.
Aug. 10, 2016, 1:53 p.m.
An unidentified man was climbing Trump Tower in New York City using suction cups for hours before police captured him by pulling him through a broken window.
The climber used a harness and suction cups to scale the side of the 58-story building. According to the Associated Press, "police officers smashed windows and broke through a ventilation duct" to try to stop him from continuing his ascent.
Trump Organization executive vice president Michael Cohen called the man's climb a "ridiculous and dangerous stunt" in a statement issued during the climb. He added, "if Trump were here he'd be thanking law enforcement for the job they're doing."
Aug. 10, 2016, 1:35 p.m.
Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump's suggestion that gun rights supporters could take action if she were to appoint judges they do not like was a "casual inciting of violence” that makes him unfit to serve as president.
Clinton pointed to the remark, which was met Tuesday with condemnation across party lines, as one more reason for Republicans to bail on Trump.
“Words matter,” Clinton said at a rally in Des Moines. “If you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences. Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that crossed the line.”