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What we know heading into the final months of the presidential race
Given that the race is just starting for lots and lots of people, it's worth revisiting what we know about the contours of the contest.
Given that the race is just starting for lots and lots of people, it's worth revisiting what we know about the contours of the contest.
Donald Trump was fighting back in polls and set to spend millions on TV advertisements as the US presidential election unofficially kicked off in force on Monday.
Experts have concluded Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic National Committee e-mails that were released by WikiLeaks just before Clinton was to formally accept the party's nomination
The FBI has released its interview with Hillary Clinton, along with a memorandum summarising the investigation into her use of a private email server that contained classified information.
A Romanian hacker nicknamed "Guccifer" who helped expose the existence of Hillary Clinton's private email server has been jailed.
Melania Trump is suing the Daily Mail Online and a blogger over stories about her past.
When he's securely removed from the objects of his scorn, he's tough as nails; when he's in their presence, he quivers like a bowl of jelly.
Remarkable as it might seem, in the face of unabashed unChristian conduct by Trump, evangelical leaders up and down the US are falling in behind him.
"That was not a Republican speech, that was populist propaganda," said one Hispanic Republican.
Earlier he wanted to work cooperatively with Mexico. In the evening, the usual yelling Trump was back.
Donald Trump, who has made maligning illegal immigrants from Mexico a cornerstone of his presidential campaign, met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday - striking a remarkably subdued and cooperative tone as he faced a world leader forcefully opposed to his signature proposals.
France's far-right National Front party leader, Marine Le Pen, says Hillary Clinton would bring war and hardship to the world.
One expert estimated that more than 75 per cent of US voters cast ballots on machines that create a reliable paper trail.
Within hours of Trump's visit to Mexico, a dispute arose over the most contentious part of the billionaire's plans to secure the US southern border.
The politically risky trip 10 weeks before Election Day put Trump in a country where he's widely despised alongside a foreign leader who has compared him to Adolf Hitler.
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is heading to a hastily arranged meeting with the Mexican president before a crucial speech on Wednesday.
The Trump team casts his prep-sessions as chats over hotdogs and burgers at his golf club in New Jersey. Clinton's planning is quite a bit different.
The Senate minority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, has asked the FBI to investigate.
The Trump campaign is flip-flopping on the candidate's flip-flopping on his immigration policy.
Johnson says his goal is to win the presidency outright, but there's another path to the presidency for a third-party candidate.
Donald Trump's physician says it took him only five minutes to write a letter last year attesting to Trump's "astonishingly excellent" health.
It didn't take long for Donald Trump to get himself in a bind while speaking with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Paul Wolfowitz, a Republican adviser to former US President George W. Bush, reportedly plans to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's aversion to transparency is affecting voter sentiment and her shot at the White House.
"A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party," the Democratic candidate says, as her rival searches for coherence.
In his upcoming Quarterly Essay, Don Watson goes on a US road trip and reflects on the November presidential election and the state of the union.
Why isn't Hillary Clinton talking about her toe, cancer, heart disease, Parkinson's disease and all the other imaginary illness?
If there has been a single theme to Trump's obnoxious quest for the Republican presidential nomination, it's been his crude dog-whistle calls to white Americans.
The emails highlight a trend in which donors are increasingly attempting to influence government not through campaign contributions but through affiliated groups.
Security agencies are investigating cyber breaches targeting reporters in the latest intrusions marking the US presidential election.
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