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'What is Aleppo?' presidential candidate Gary Johnson asks
The man hoping to attract the votes of Republicans disgruntled with Donald Trump revealed a stunning lack of foreign policy knowledge in a now-viral interview.
The man hoping to attract the votes of Republicans disgruntled with Donald Trump revealed a stunning lack of foreign policy knowledge in a now-viral interview.
Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that Islamic State leaders were praying for Donald Trump to win the US election.
She has been criticised for being cold, unemotional and not relatable enough to regular folk, now Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has explained why.
Obama said Trump isn't fit to serve as president after his performance at a national security forum.
Black protester Darren Seals was found with a gunshot wound in a burnt car in St Louis, Missouri.
Donald Trump burst back into the limelight, with so many back-to-back reverse ferrets that a lesser presidential candidate might have blushed.
Defence Secretary Ash Carter used language that evoked a time before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Republican candidate wants to deploy more active troops, fighter planes, ships and submarines as he works to convince sceptics he's ready to be CiC.
One candidate, George W. Bush, was dishonest in a way that was unprecedented in US politics. The other, Al Gore, was portrayed as slippery and dishonest. Guess who won?
The UN's human rights chief accuses Donald Trump of spreading "humiliating racial and religious prejudice".
After Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid ended a secure, 30-minute phone briefing by a top intelligence official, he was "deeply shaken".
'It's a sign of such disrespect,' the Republican candidate tells a crowd in Ohio.
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.
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