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Trump and his running mate contradict themselves on NATO issue The   Republican   campaign sparked a controversy when party's presidential nominee   Donald Trump   and his running mate   Mike Pence   expressed contradicting views on America's North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. In his vice-presidential acceptance speech, Pence said that Trump would rebuild the military and stand with the allies of the United States. But in an interview to   The New York Times , Trump said that the US under his presidency might not come to the defence of some   NATO   members if   Russia   were to attack them. The Republican presidential nominee said that his decision would be based on the whether those countries have fulfilled their obligations to NATO. The rival   Clinton   campaign slammed Trump and Pence for their differences on this crucial issue. "Tonight, Mike Pence said Donald Trump would stand with our...

Clinton never personally denied Benghazi security: Democrats Hillary Clinton   never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional security at the US outpost in Benghazi, Libya, according to   Democrats on a select House panel who absolved the former secretary of state and the US military of wrongdoing in the deadly September 11, 2012 attacks. In a report pre-empting the Republicans, the panel's five Democrats said after a two-year investigation that the military could not have done anything differently that night to save the lives of four Americans killed in Libya. US Ambassador Chris Stevens died in one of the two assaults at the diplomatic facility and CIA annex. Democrats' release of their own report heightened the partisanship of the inquiry, which has been marked by finger-pointing on both sides. Republicans accuse the Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses, while Democrats say the panel's primary goal is to u...