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Hillary Clinton responded Wednesday to Donald Trump's suggestion the day before about gun rights activists potentially stopping her from making Supreme Court picks if she's elected, by saying "words matter."

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Republican nominee Donald Trump's running mate, denounced former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's remarks about Justice Antonin Scalia's death happening at a "good time."

A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a lower court's effort to create exceptions to Wisconsin's voter ID law, saying the lower court's ruling would likely not be upheld upon appeal.

Donald Trump's comments regarding the Second Amendment and Hillary Clinton struck Erica Smegielski -- the daughter of Sandy Hook's slain principal -- as "distasteful" and "not presidential," she said Wednesday.

Hillary Clinton has a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin -- the type of a manufacturing-heavy state his campaign hopes to turn red in November -- according to a new Marquette University Law School poll.

Donald Trump got trapped in an elevator in Colorado Springs because a member of his entourage used an elevator bypass key, but they didn't know how to turn it back on, according to an email from a fire marshal involved with the rescue.

At least eight staffers have left the Republican National Committee at least in part due to discomfort over the party's nomination of Donald Trump for president.

The State Department criticized American allies Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Indonesia Wednesday for having laws that infringe upon religious freedom.

GOP Senator Mark Kirk says he will not be voting for his party's nominee and instead will write in Colon Powell's name for president.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that if Hillary Clinton gets to pick Supreme Court justices, there's "nothing you can do, folks ... although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is."

A former staffer in Gov. Chris Christie's office accused the governor of lying during a press conference about the "bridgegate" scandal in New Jersey, according to a text message newly surfaced in court filings.

US Marines need to put away their cell phones, forget about their fancy coffees and get back to doing what Marines used to do -- dig a foxhole, cover up, stay quiet and be wary, the Corps' top officer says.

Ted Strickland, the former Ohio governor who is challenging Senator Rob Portman in a closely-watched race, apologized for saying Justice Antonin Scalia's death happened at a good time.

Hillary Clinton, sensing apprehension from Utah Republicans for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, pitched Mormon voters in a Wednesday op-ed published by the Deseret News, a paper owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Here's a semi-comprehensive list we'll be updating of the many notable Republicans who have said they won't support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, why they're opposing him and who they'll back instead:

They say "Virginia is for Lovers," but the state this year promises to be home to an all-out fight for its 13 electoral votes.

Hillary Clinton's campaign, seeing vulnerabilities for Donald Trump in Arizona and Georgia, says it plans to expand their political and organizing operations in the two states in the coming weeks, according to Democrats with knowledge of the plans.

Another day, another bunch of Republicans fleeing Donald Trump.

Gay rights advocates are blasting Donald Trump and Florida Senator Marco Rubio for planning to campaign with what they call an anti-gay religious group.

General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA defended his letter signed by 49 other Republican national security officials saying Donald Trump is unqualified to be President and a clear and present danger.