Clinton Deplores ‘Deplorables’; Lazy in the U.K.: Saturday Wrap
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Here are highlights of Saturday’s top breaking stories from around the world:
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton apologized for a poor choice of words in declaring that “half” of Republican Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” as Trump surrogates, already buoyed by recent tightening in the polls, tried to inflict maximum damage. It evoked Mitt Romney’s campaign-sinking utterance in 2012 that 47 percent of Americans were dependent on the government and wouldn’t vote for him anyway.