Donald Trump's paid maternity leave plan gets Hillary Clinton rejoinder

Donald Trump's paid maternity leave plan gets Hillary Clinton rejoinder

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has introduced an unorthodox childcare plan, becoming a rare Republican calling for paid maternity leave.

Introduced on Tuesday by his daughter Ivanka, who asserted that childcare issues were at the "root of wage inequality by disproportionately affecting women", Trump tried to soften his image at an event held in Pennsylvania, a former stronghold for moderate Republicans that has trended Democratic in recent years, the Guardianreported.

Trump also asserted that "my opponent has no childcare plan". Clinton has in fact made a number of detailed proposals on childcare.

Clinton in June last year first outlined a programme for universal pre-kindergarten and in May this year proposed to cap childcare costs at ten per cent of household income and to introduce 12 weeks of paid family leave.

Maya Harris, a senior policy adviser to Clinton, described Trump's plan as "half-baked and completely out of touch".

Trump's proposal came as he faces a major deficit among college-educated white women in polls.

According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has a 50-40 lead over her Republican rival in a demographic that Mitt Romney won by six points in 2012 despite his decisive loss that year.

Trump called for making a childcare tax deductible, up to the average cost in a given family's state, until the age of 13, as well as an expanded rebate of up to $1,200 for those families that do not pay income tax and receive earned income tax credit (EITC).Read more

Hillary Clinton told 'so many lies' on emails: Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton told 'so many lies' on emails: Donald Trump

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has tweeted a video accusing his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of "so many lies" about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

The minute-long video shows Clinton making various statements, all of which are rebutted by text below, even as an animated face of the Democratic nominee steadily keeps growing a longer nose.

"I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material," Clinton is quoted as saying in the video.

"She did [and] there is," the text at the bottom of the video screen reads.

"I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified," Clinton says, while the text notes: "she did."

"I had not sent classified material, nor received anything marked classified," she adds in a third segment, again appearing above the phrase "she did."

The minute-long video concludes with the FBI Director James Comey detailing how Clinton used her private email server while at the State Department.

"110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information. Seven email chains contain matters that were classified at the top secret special access program at the time they were sent and received," he says.(more)

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Protests turn violent outside Trump's rally in New Mexico; clashes erupt

Protests turn violent outside Trump's rally in New Mexico; clashes erupt

Donald Trump's rally in New Mexico turned violent as anti-Trump demonstrators clashed with police, hurling rocks and burning clothes at officers, the latest scuffle to hit the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's campaign.

The "unlawful assembly" went on rampage, lighted fires and threw rocks at the police officers and their horses outside Trump's rally at a convention centre in New Mexico's Albuquerque. The police resorted to launching smoke bombs to disperse the violent crowd which overturned barricades and hurled rocks.

The protesters disrupted the 69-year-old New York-based real estate tycoon's speech several times yesterday. Most of the protesters were escorted out one by one.

"Go ahead, get them out of here," Donald Trump told one of them.

However, the police had a tough time in controlling the demonstrators who were protesting against the policies and rhetorics of Trump.

"This is an unlawful assembly," Albuquerque police spokesman Simon Drobik told protesters over a loudspeaker.Read more.