WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will deliver a final State of the Union address Tuesday brimming with optimism — far more than most Americans possess.
After six years of pitching ambitious proposals in his annual speech to Congress, Obama plans to take a rhetorical step back this year as he opens the final stretch of his presidency, in which he has less control over the nation's political agenda than ever before. By returning to the hopeful tenor of his two presidential campaigns, Obama also hopes to give voice to themes that Democrats can embrace in their campaigns to replace him and win back control of Congress.
WINDHAM, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump is continuing his war of words with New Hampshire's largest newspaper, a day after claiming credit for ABC's decision to drop the paper as a co-sponsor of its upcoming Republican debate.
Trump's campaign and the Union Leader have been in a mudslinging contest since the paper's publisher Joseph McQuaid wrote a series of front-page editorials criticizing Trump, one time calling him a "crude blowhard."
