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On the day before the US goes to the polls, voters in New York's Times Square give their verdicts on the election race — and who should be the country's next president.
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A photo of a shirt emblazoned with the words "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required" worn by a man at a Donald Trump rally over the weekend goes viral.
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In the USA's Deep South, one man's death becomes a symbol for his family of all that is wrong with the American Dream — and why Donald Trump appeals to the working poor.
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As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton complete a final, frenzied burst of campaigning, the Republican says he is the "last chance" to fix a broken country while his Democratic rival says a "moment of reckoning" has arrived.
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Donald Trump's claims of a rigged election speak to the core grievance of America's poor, that the game of life is fixed to benefit the rich and the working man is being screwed. But does he have the answers to solve their grievances.
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US sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live has poked fun at presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump one last time before the US election is called.
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Most pundits are tipping gold price to rise irrespective of who becomes the next US president thanks to continued uncertainty on global markets.
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This week America will elect its 45th president. Before it does, test your knowledge of those who came before either president Trump or president Clinton.
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See how the Australian election would play out under US rules — it might help you understand the system that will deliver president Clinton or Trump.
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Iowa's bizarre weather seems to underline the surreal climate on the political stage, writes Mary Gearin.
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FBI director James Comey says a recent review of newly discovered emails has not changed the agency's conclusion reached in July that no charges are warranted in the case of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
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The FBI says it has ended its investigation into the emails which threw Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign into turmoil, and has concluded that no charges are warranted. Look back at our live coverage from the campaign trail.
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Donald Trump is hustled off stage by security agents at a rally in Reno, Nevada, after someone in the crowd shouted "gun" during a scuffle with a man who held up a "Republicans against Trump" sign.
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Hillary Clinton's strengths and experience may be the reason she becomes the first woman to lose a presidential election as a major party candidate, writes John Barron.
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Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton trade barbs as they enter the last three days of campaigning in the United States presidential election with competing events in Florida.
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US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have battled over the strength of the economy in the final stretch of their race for the White House.
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US federal authorities have warned three states about possible Al Qaeda plans for attacks around election day, putting law enforcement on alert ahead of the vote.
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Grass roots campaigning tends to win elections in states like North Carolina, but those kinds of campaigns rely on volunteers giving as much of their time as possible.
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Gun background checks surge by 18 per cent and manufacturers report strong sales growth in the United States in the year leading up to the November 8 presidential election, amid Republican candidate Donald Trump's warnings Democratic rival Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the country's Second Amendment.
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America had never seen a first lady like Michelle Obama. As she enters her final day in the post, look back on some of her impressive achievements.
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It's fitting that after a campaign that's been topsy-turvy in so many ways, we enter the straight with almost unreadable polls and an election that looks like being a photo finish between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, writes the ABC's Zoe Daniel.
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There has been much analysis on the rise of Donald Trump as the result of widespread social and economic unrest, but a look at the primaries shows it to be more of a quirk of the system.
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In a blow to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a US judge upholds a Pennsylvania state law that could make it difficult for his supporters to monitor election day activity in Democratic-leaning areas.
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Republican and Democratic farmers are united in need for US immigration reforms to ensure their properties can secure a reliable workforce.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump head to North Carolina in a final effort to shore up support in the swing state as polls show Mrs Clinton maintains her lead nationally just days ahead of the US presidential election.
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In the early 1920s, the largest labour uprising in US history took place in Logan County, in West Virginia's rich coal country. Today, writes Chris Uhlmann, US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is at the centre of a new rebellion as the region struggles to cope with the industry's downturn.
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A new conservative movement in American politics that has grown in strength and prominence as Donald Trump became the Republican Party's standard-bearer vow to challenge the status quo no matter who wins the White House.
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Republican stalwart Richard Armitage, who served under US presidents George W Bush and Ronald Reagan, delivers a blistering critique of his party's presidential nominee.
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The Mayor of the biggest city in the election battleground state of North Carolina believes the US presidential election is about gender.
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Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 6 percentage points among likely voters, according to a new poll, the same advantage the Democratic presidential nominee held before an FBI announcement that reignited the controversy about her email practices.
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The US Federal Reserve leaves interest rates on hold, but the prospect of a rate increase in December and a narrowing in the gap between presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump weighs on investor sentiment.
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It turns out Americans do elections very differently to how we do them in Australia. And it's not just calling a democracy sausage a hotdog. Got questions? We've got answers.
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A black church in Mississippi is burned and spray-painted with "Vote Trump" one week out from the US presidential election, as a Ku Klux Klan newspaper declares its support for Donald Trump's Republican run.
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Jitters about a potential Trump presidency send share markets across the Asia-Pacific hurtling lower as latest polling indicates the November 8 election will be tight.
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There is a possibility that neither candidates in the US presidential election could end up as president, says an expert, pointing to a scenario that could lead to "genuine chaos".
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Former prime minister John Howard criticises both US presidential candidates for turning their backs on free trade deals, and launches a defence of Bill Leak's cartoon of Indigenous Australians.
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Latest national polling shows US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck, with Mr Trump leading by just one point — well within the margin of error.
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A Hillary Clinton presidency would be bogged down in "scandal baggage", leading Republican Paul Ryan says, referring to the FBI's recent reopening of Mrs Clinton's email investigation.
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Electing Hillary Clinton amid the FBI's renewed investigation into her email set-up could throw the country into crisis, Donald Trump says, as the White House steers clear of accusations FBI director James Comey is secretly trying to influence the election outcome.
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Democratic Party officials sue Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in an attempt to shut down a poll-watching effort they said was designed to harass minority voters in the election.
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The US presidential race has dominated news and social media in the lead-up to the November 8 election, and is now spilling over into the country's much-loved holiday — Halloween.
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What the October Surprise has done is remove any and all sense of complacency from the Clinton campaign. It is not coasting on autopilot any more.
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Hillary Clinton vows she will not be "knocked off course" in the election's final days, as she seeks to push past a new FBI email inquiry that has delivered a late jolt to her race against Donald Trump.
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Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former US congressman who uses the alias Carlos Danger when sexting women, has emerged as an unexpected figure in the FBI's inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified government information.
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Just how big of a deal is the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's emails? And what impact is it going to have on the final days before the election?
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What happens when Republicans and Democrats share a meal together? Zoe Daniel visits a family in Ohio, a state known for correctly choosing the president, to find out how Americans are voting this election.
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Hillary Clinton hits out at FBI director James Comey for releasing a letter advising that the bureau is investigating more emails so close to the election, describing it as "deeply troubling" and "pretty strange".
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The FBI is investigating whether emails uncovered during the sexting investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner have links to Hillary Clinton's probe.
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With the US election in its final fortnight, Donald Trump is five points behind Hillary Clinton. And that's a deficit no-one in US presidential history has ever recovered from, explains Michael Vincent.
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An airplane carrying US Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence slides off the runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, but press secretary Marc Lotter says were no injuries from the incident.
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Imagine you once had a good job, perhaps in a steel plant, and then the economy tanked. The slogan Make America Great Again would resonate.
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US First Lady Michelle Obama appears alongside Hillary Clinton for the first time on the presidential campaign to rally voters in the battleground state of North Carolina.
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The recipient of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Paul Beatty, says the United States is in a heightened state of fear as the presidential election nears an end.
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Vladimir Putin says American politicians are whipping up hysteria about a mythical Russian threat in the US presidential campaign as a ploy to distract voters from their own failings.
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On a rooftop overlooking the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, around 200 American-Israeli supporters of Donald Trump gather to proclaim their support for the Republican candidate.
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Michael D'Antonio, who spent hours interviewing and getting to know Donald Trump for his latest book, says the Republican presidential candidate is filling an empty space inside himself.
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Donald Trump's promise to wind back globalisation resonates particularly strongly in north-eastern Ohio, where many blame free trade deals for sending thousands of jobs offshore.
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A Trump victory in the US presidential election is unlikely, but then again, so was Brexit. If he does get elected, there may be severe economic and financial consequences, writes Saul Eslake.
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A vandal wearing a hard-hat and reflective vest damages Donald Trump's star by on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a sledgehammer and pick-axe.
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Donald Trump says that Hillary Clinton's policies on Syria would "lead to World War III" due to the potential for conflict with military forces from nuclear-armed Russia.
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Donald Trump masks are proving to be a surprise hit in Australia in the lead-up to Halloween, with many costume suppliers running out of stock.
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The Trump circus has distracted from genuine scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's approach to global challenges if she becomes president, and the signs are not good.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slams rival Donald Trump for saying that the effort to retake Mosul from the control of Islamic State is going badly.
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Donald Trump could provoke instability and world disorder if he becomes the US president, according to Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta.
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Hillary Clinton may have pulled ahead in the polls but in this part of the US Donald Trump reigns supreme. There's even a house dedicated to the Republican candidate complete with a giant Trump out the front.
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Donald Trump's campaign bluntly acknowledges the real estate mogul is trailing Hillary Clinton as the presidential race hurtles toward a close, but insists he still has a viable path to win the White House.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatens legal action against women who have accused him of sexual assault, vowing "every one of these liars will be sued" after the November election.
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Donald Trump says "win, lose or draw" he will be happy he gave his all in the race for the White House in comments seemingly moving away from his refusal to commit to accepting the official election result.
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Having pushed Trump's buttons again in the third US presidential debate, Clinton will now make a full court press for her closing argument to the American people.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump turn the annual Al Smith charity dinner into a makeshift comedy roast with a series of personal barbs — but who came out on top?
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Was that another eye popping debate or what? The candidates actually talked to their substantive policy positions. It was like a normal debate.
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Donald Trump's performance in yesterday's final presidential debate sparks a storm of parody book reports after Twitter users compared him to a school student writing a book report without having read the book.
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Donald Trump continues to float the possibility of challenging the results of the presidential election if there is a "questionable result," while promising to embrace the outcome "if I win".
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Donald Trump is showing signs he is developing a plan that could keep him in a position of influence well after the November 8 election, writes Stephanie March.
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Donald Trump's candidacy has revealed a deep racism in American society that can certainly be interpreted as the making of a fascist movement, an icon of the black civil rights struggle says.
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US media reports range from being thankful the third debate was the final show of Donald Trump's "gross unfitness to be president" to an admission that, save for a few slip-ups, the final debate could have been a draw.
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Was it Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Test your political smarts with our presidential debate quiz — it's harder than you might think.
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Donald Trump needed a strong performance in this presidential debate to keep his campaign alive. You can decide for yourself if he pulled it off.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump refuses to say if he will accept the outcome of the November 8 US presidential election, leaving open the possibility he will challenge the ultimate outcome.
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Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump's refusal during their third and final debate to say whether he will recognise the outcome of the election is "horrifying". Look back over the live blog to see how the debate unfolded.
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Got questions ahead of the third presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump? We've got all you need to know before it kicks off.
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Republican insiders say some within the party fear Donald Trump will not only lose the election, but will destroy their party, and are now moving to distance themselves from the presidential candidate as he prepares for the final debate against Hillary Clinton.
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What happens when you get an African-American Trump supporter, the daughter of Indian migrants, a former card-carrying Republican and a Clinton enthusiast together for a barbeque? Lateline sits down with some Americans living in Australia to find out how they will vote in the US election.
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Passions are running high among supporters of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas, where the White House hopefuls will clash in their final US presidential debate.
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The social media giant has added the option to publicly endorse candidates on users Facebook feeds. You just need to be prepared for the consequences.
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President Barack Obama tears into Donald Trump for sowing suspicion about the integrity of the US election, telling the Republican presidential nominee to "stop whining" and focus on winning votes.
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Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says while there is no specific scenario planning for an increasingly unlikely Trump presidency, the bank does prepare for events that could rock financial markets.
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Melania Trump says the comments her husband made on tape about women were unacceptable, but that he had been "egged on" by television host Billy Bush.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation records show a senior official at the US State Department tried to push the FBI into dropping its insistence that an email from Hillary Clinton's private server contained classified information.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump says he expects widespread voter fraud in the November 8 US presidential election, ramping up his warning of a rigged election without providing any evidence.
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WikiLeaks says founder Julian Assange's internet was shut down by the Ecuador Government, deflecting blame from the US or British governments who have sparred with Mr Assange for releasing sensitive material.
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Donald Trump has been criticised for using classic rock hits at his rallies, so now a group of bands have come together to record songs he can use. But will he want to?
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Donald Trump says actor Alec Baldwin's portrayal of him on Saturday Night Live "stinks" and accuses the media of working to rig the election.
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LPGA chief Mike Whan backs golf authorities to make the right decision regarding whether the 2017 US Women's Open will go ahead at Donald Trump's New Jersey golf course.
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump questions the legitimacy of the election, pressing unsubstantiated claims the contest is rigged against him.
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump calls the women accusing him of sexual misconduct "sick" liars who are seeking fame as part of a plot to discredit him, after two more come forward with allegations he groped them.
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Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence vigorously defends running mate Donald Trump against allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Just three and a bit weeks from the presidential election: how low can it go? Amid the mud slinging there's new poll numbers and a new internet hero named Ken Bone.
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Donald Trump's boasts about his fame allowing him to "do anything to women" were an affront to all women, parents and every citizen in the United States, First Lady Michelle Obama says.
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New South Wales Parliament formally brands US presidential candidate Donald Trump a "revolting slug" as it condemns the "misogynistic, hateful comments he has made about women and minorities".
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Two women accuse Donald Trump of inappropriate touching in a story posted on The New York Times website, accusations his lawyers describe as "false" and "defamatory".
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Donald Trump's son Eric causes controversy after sending a fundraising email to supporters claiming "all the momentum is on our side" and referencing a map showing what the election would look like if only men voted.
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NBA superstar LeBron James says Donald Trump is way off the mark in what he calls "locker-room talk".
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US presidential candidate Donald Trump would present a "global danger" if he were elected, the top United Nations human rights official says.
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Donald Trump steps up his attacks against US House Speaker Paul Ryan — calling him a weak and ineffective leader — but says his campaign "shackles" are off now that Mr Ryan and other establishment Republicans have abandoned him.
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There was a quiet but deadly serious issue raised in the second US presidential debate: what to do about Syria and, more broadly, how to counter Russia in that blighted nation and other places.
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Tiny cracks appear in evangelical support for Donald Trump over the video of his sexually predatory comments about women.
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With less than a month until the climax of the US presidential race, one Brisbane man is en route to Philadelphia to work as a volunteer for Hilary Clinton.
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The Republican Party has all but failed to resolve the existential crisis posed by Trump, and that failure has meant the US has been put through the ugliest ordeal in its political history.
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Television audience numbers for the second Trump-Clinton debate fall sharply, despite the furore over a video of Donald Trump boasting about groping women.
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The leader of the US House of Representatives distances himself from Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate's campaign sinks deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women.
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After a fiery second presidential debate, Donald Trump's camp firmly declared the "underdog is back".
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sparred in a testy second presidential debate. Here's how some of the biggest US media outlets saw the exchange.
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Was it Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Test your political smarts with our presidential debate quiz — it's harder than you might think.
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Donald Trump says he will appoint a special prosecutor to look into Hillary Clinton's emails if he wins the White House, during a heated presidential debate.
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NBC suspends "Today" show personality Billy Bush after he was videotaped in a crude conversation with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton covered some old ground in their second presidential debate, but there were also plenty of new issues. From lewd remarks to taxes, emails and a Muslim immigration ban, here are the key moments from their encounter.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump prepped for today's debate by hosting a high-profile press conference with women who accuse Hillary Clinton's husband Bill of sexual misconduct.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton traded accusations in an acrimonious town hall debate dominated by accusations of misconduct from both sides.
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With his campaign spiralling out of control in the wake of a video in which he is heard boasting about groping women, Donald Trump has the most to lose in today's presidential debate, writes North America correspondent Stephanie March.
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US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, facing eroding support from his party over lewd remarks about women, will go into today's second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton needing to demonstrate he remains a credible candidate.
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Hollywood star Robert De Niro records a video in which he launched an attack on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling him a "pig" and saying he would like to "punch him in the face".
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Republican leaders from Utah to Alabama call on Donald Trump to leave the presidential race as a party in crisis grapples with the fallout from its White House nominee's vulgar and sexually charged comments caught on tape.
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Donald Trump promises to be a "better man" after video surfaces of him making sexist comments in 2005, but claims Bill Clinton abused women and his wife Hillary intimidated the "victims".
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Hillary Clinton reportedly told bankers behind closed doors that she favours "open trade and open borders", according to leaked transcripts of speeches she gave during paid appearances.
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Donald Trump has tried weathering the storm and failed. He's tried doubling down and failed. The only tactic he's yet to try is quitting.
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The US Government formally accuses Russia of a campaign of recent cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations during the campaign for the upcoming presidential election.
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Washington DC bureau chief Zoe Daniel gives her take on the week that was, as we draw ever closer to election day in the US.
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US presidential candidate Donald Trump makes an awkward classroom visit in Las Vegas.
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Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence is earning big points within the party, and Republicans who survive will thank him for what he has done in an impossible situation.
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The US election outcome will have potentially major and enduring consequences for Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
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Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence quickly launch attacks on presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the vice-presidential candidates' debate.
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Here's what you need to know about the first and only US vice-presidential debate.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the organisation will publish documents related to the US election and three governments, but denies the release is aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton.
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A group of Hillary Clinton supporters put on their power pantsuits to dance up a storm in New York City and pay tribute to the Democratic presidential nominee's trademark style.
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Donald Trump's campaign defends his comments on combat veterans and mental health, after criticism his remarks implied service members diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder were weak.
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In his years as a reality TV boss on The Apprentice, Donald Trump made lewd, sexist comments to female staff and contestants, rating some by the size of their breasts and talking about which ones he would like to have sex with.
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New York's Attorney-General orders Donald Trump's charitable foundation to immediately stop fundraising in the state, warning a failure to do so would be a "continuing fraud".
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Donald Trump's decision to take a $US916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return shows his "genius" at knowing how to minimise his tax bill, two of the Republican candidate's advisers say.
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Veteran actor and frequent host Alec Baldwin debuts his new gig as a scowling, blustering Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live to thundering praise.
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A $US916 million loss declared by Donald Trump on his 1995 tax returns could have allowed the Republican presidential nominee to avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years, The New York Times reports.
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Hackers have probed the voting systems of many US states but there is no sign that they have manipulated any voting data, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ramps up his attacks on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, calling her disgusting and claiming the existence of a sex tape.
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A conservative US newspaper in Arizona is facing death threats after it broke with tradition by endorsing Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump for president, a senior editor says.
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Facebook has already proved it can increase the number of people who vote in elections. But what if it tries to influence how they vote?
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Donald Trump was found out at the US presidential debate when a lack of preparation did him no good at all — but it may not matter.
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US stocks gain after Hillary Clinton was seen as emerging the winner out of yesterday's presidential debate with Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump vows to hit rival Hillary Clinton harder in the next US presidential debate after she put him on the defensive by accusing him of being racist, sexist and a tax dodger during their first matchup.
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The first presidential debate was full of fireworks and political theatre but Donald Trump failed to advanced his case or land a significant blow on Hillary Clinton, meaning the Democrat candidate is likely to maintain her lead in the polls.
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Millions of viewers across the United States and beyond tune into the first presidential debate, smashing ratings records and sending Monday night bar sales soaring.
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By the end of the night, Mrs Clinton unpicked the knot and showed, without doubt, she is the candidate who is more capable to assume the presidency.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton says Republican Donald Trump has a history of racist behaviour as the pair accuse each other of falsehoods in a heated first US presidential debate.
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US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have faced each other in their first debate of a tightly fought campaign. Look back at how it all unfolded in our blog.
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US stocks slump ahead of the US presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will today debate each other for the first time in the United States election campaign.
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US presidential debates have delivered some iconic moments since first appearing on television in 1960. Test your knowledge of some of the best and worst.
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Can Donald Trump keep himself calm and presidential for 90 minutes? Not likely, based on past performances.
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What will Donald Trump do and how will Hillary Clinton react? That's the reason 100 million Americans, many of whom loathe both of these nominees, are expected to tune in to the first presidential debate of the 2016 race.
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The New York Times describes Hillary Clinton as "one of the most tenacious politicians of her generation", saying she is more qualified than Republican presidential rival Donald Trump.
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In an abrupt shift, US Senator Ted Cruz endorses Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying he is the only candidate who can keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
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Hillary Clinton takes the hot seat on parody interview show Between Two Ferns, answering the show's sometimes bizarre and always awkward questions.
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Credit rating agency Moody's warns that a Trump presidency could seriously dent free trade and global growth, and that Clinton's policies also contain some negatives.
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Some of America's biggest stars — including actors Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson — take aim at Donald Trump in a video urging people to vote in the US election.
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Nearly 400 global scientists have signed an open letter slamming Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for vowing to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, warning of dire consequences for the environment if he is elected.
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The man who took the photo used in a Donald Trump Jr tweet comparing Skittles to Syrian refugees says he is a former refugee himself, and that he did not give permission for the photo's use.
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Donald Trump Jr causes outrage after taking to social media to compare Syrian refugees to a bowl of poisoned Skittles, in which to be statistically correct would need to contain 10.92 billion pieces of the candy.
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The political classes in Washington are frightened and dazed, afraid that Trump can win this election, reflecting a changed America they do not know or understand any more. The Imperial City is seized with it.
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Donald Trump has dominated headlines throughout the US election campaign, and it may be down to his monkey-like antics, renowned British primatologist Dame Jane Goodall says.
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Donald Trump slams Hillary Clinton's immigration policies as too lax during a campaign event in Texas with a group formed to honour and remember Americans killed by illegal immigrants.
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Donald Trump calls for the bodyguards who protect his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to give up their guns, and muses about the consequences of such a move by saying "let's see what happens to her".
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After years of fuelling conspiracy theories, Donald Trump admits President Barack Obama is an American citizen — but repeats allegations that Hillary Clinton started the so-called "birther" movement.
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Donald Trump's hair — which has become one of the enigmas of a very weird US presidential race — is messed with big time by comedian Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
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Washington DC bureau chief Zoe Daniel wraps up the week in US politics, a week where candidates were forced to reveal a bit too much information about their health.
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Hillary Clinton returns to the campaign trail in a tightening race against Republican Donald Trump, who releases new details of his physical fitness in response to the health scare that sidelined his rival.
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The doctor for the US Democratic presidential candidate releases a letter detailing Hillary Clinton's health, saying she is recovering well from pneumonia and is fit to lead the country.
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With Hillary Clinton sidelined by pneumonia, President Barack Obama takes up the Democrats' fight against Donald Trump, trying to quash the Republican presidential candidate's bid to appeal to working-class voters.
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Hillary Clinton plans to resume her presidential campaign against Donald Trump 'in the next couple of days' after a bout of pneumonia she says was 'not that big a deal'.
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Donald Trump has alienated a lot of African-American voters, so a gospel church is not the sort of place you would expect to find one of his most loyal supporters, but Pastor Darrell Scott describes Trump as a friend and urges his flock to vote for him.
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US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's bout of pneumonia, kept secret until she nearly collapsed, raises an element of uncertainty about her health going into the final weeks of campaigning and risks feeding a narrative about her stamina from Republican rival Donald Trump.
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Hillary Clinton cancels a California fundraising trip after being diagnosed with pneumonia and falling ill at a 9/11 ceremony.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes aim at supporters of Republican rival Donald Trump, saying half of them are racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or Islamophobic.
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Donald Trump calls Hillary Clinton "trigger happy", while Mrs Clinton argues Mr Trump's national security proposals would make the world a more dangerous place.
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This week's wrap by Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel
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US Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson frames an embarrassing lapse on foreign affairs as simple human error after he responds to a question about a flashpoint in the Syrian civil war by asking: "What is Aleppo?"
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pledges to launch a new US military build-up, calling for hundreds more US ships, planes and submarines and a plan to destroy the Islamic State group within 30 days.
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The outgoing US ambassador to Australia, John Berry, says Australians are the "most rational people in the world" and he would like to take compulsory voting and short election campaigns back to the United States.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promises African Americans prosperity and calls for "a civil rights agenda for our time" in a speech to a black congregation in Detroit, as police hold back chanting protesters outside.
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A warning from a Donald Trump supporter that a failure to crack down on illegal immigrants in the US could lead "taco trucks (on) every corner" is mocked online by Hillary Clinton supporters and lovers of Latin American food.
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America's rust belt states are becoming a fierce battleground in the race for the White House. In one city Republican Donald Trump's promise to bring back industry jobs has found a receptive audience.
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Hillary Clinton told the FBI she did not recall all the briefings she received on handling sensitive information as she made the transition from her post as US secretary of state, due to a concussion suffered in 2012, according to a recently released FBI report.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is strategically "writing off minority populations" in an attempt to further enhance his white vote, leading US political scientist Norman Ornstein says.
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Melania Trump, the wife of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, sues two media outlets that alleged she worked as an escort in the 1990s.
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America's Latino community is turning its back on Donald Trump after his fiery immigration speech yesterday in Phoenix.
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It was another week of contradictions on the US campaign trail after Donald Trump met with the Mexican President, before doubling down on his hardline immigration policy.
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Donald Trump can't win the White House without attracting more votes from Latinos, African Americans and college-educated white women. And its highly unlikely his trip south of the Rio Grande has moved them in his direction, writes Michael Vincent.
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Donald Trump's war of words with the Mexican president intensifies, with the Republican nominee insisting Mexico will pay for the border wall he plans to build, despite Enrique Pena Nieto saying there's no way his country will foot the bill.
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President Enrique Pena Nieto says he told Donald Trump that Mexico would not pay for the Republican presidential candidate's proposed wall along the Mexico-US border, contradicting Mr Trump's assertion they did not discuss payment.
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A life-sized nude statue of US Republican presidential contender Donald Trump will go up for auction in October, with a portion of the profits to be given to an immigrant support group.
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Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump accepts Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's invitation to meet privately south of the US border.
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Donald Trump links illegal immigration and employment, pledging to start deporting offenders as soon as he is sworn in should he become the White House's next occupant.
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US presidential hopeful Donald Trump's newly-appointed campaign manager was charged with domestic violence in 1996, New York newspapers report.
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The tone of the US presidential campaign darkens, with Hillary Clinton skewering Donald Trump as a man who flirts with racism and paranoid ideas, while he in turn labelled her a racist whose family foundation was a "criminal enterprise".
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US Vice President Joe Biden tells Baltic leaders not to take seriously comments by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that call into question the US commitment to protect NATO allies in the face of Russian aggression.
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A judge orders the US State Department to review, for possible release, 14,900 of Hillary Clinton's emails, sent through a private email server she used while serving as secretary of state.
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The next reset moment will be the presidential debates beginning in late September. Until then, what should we look for? What are the markers to gauge how the race is going?
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Fresh from a two-week vacation, President Barack Obama visits flood-hit Louisiana hoping to offer support to devastated communities and silence his critics.
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Companies belonging to Donald Trump have at least $US650 million in debt, more than twice the amount shown in public filings made by his presidential campaign, the New York Times reports.
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Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton does not need to give sworn testimony over her use of an unauthorised private email system while she was US secretary of state, a judge rules.
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Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, resigns under fire over pro-Kremlin ties and after being sidelined in a reshuffle as the Republican nominee battles to reverse sinking poll numbers.
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Ukrainian authorities release details of million dollar payments that US presidential campaign hopeful Donald Trump's former campaign chief allegedly received from Kiev's former Russian-backed leaders.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump apologises for past remarks that "may have caused personal pain" as he seeks to refocus his message in the face of falling opinion poll numbers in his first speech since shaking up his campaign team this week.
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A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with bulging belly and elaborate yellow hair, causes laughter and merriment in New York until it is demolished by park wardens.
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Country music icon Dolly Parton is back with a new album, and talks about her long career, why 9 to 5 still resonates, and the "crazy" US election.
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Donald Trump has received his first classified intelligence briefing, a privilege reserved for presidential candidates from the two main political parties.
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Donald Trump does not like being controlled and, in a sign that he won't be, has taken new steps to stick with his signature style of tough talking populism, appointing a top executive from the conservative website Breitbart News as his campaign chief executive.
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump overhauls his troubled campaign, hiring the combative head of a conservative news website as chief executive officer and promoting a seasoned political operative to a senior role.
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Donald Trump, who during his presidential campaign has vowed to ban Muslim immigrants and erect a wall to prevent Mexican immigration, says that he would reject bigotry "in all forms" if elected president.
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Trump, Brexit and the polarisation of politics is slowing the growth of global agricultural trade.
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To paraphrase Depression-era president FDR, as the US presidential race careers towards an ugly end, we do have more to fear than fear itself.
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump unveils his anti-terrorism plan, saying he would implement "extreme vetting" of immigrants and suspend immigration from certain countries to protect the United States.
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US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, angered by news reports that he has grown dejected and sullen over his fading presidential prospects, issues some of his sharpest attacks on the media.
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Hillary Clinton releases her tax return while her opponent Donald Trump fails to honour this tradition among American politicians running for president.
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Donald Trump, meet Zapp Brannigan — the US presidential candidate's controversial quotes are recorded as the Futurama character by voice actor Billy West.
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Zoe Daniel takes a look back over the week in US politics at the presidential campaign that, despite already clocking up some major moments, continues to proves it really has no boundaries.
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Hillary Clinton admonishes rival Donald Trump for claiming that she and Barack Obama were the founders of the Islamic State group, saying anyone who would "sink so low" should never be president.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump's comment that gun owners "could stop" her "crossed the line" and shows he does not have the temperament to be US president.
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A man is captured by police after he scales the side of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan using suction cups and a climbing harness, drawing hundreds of onlookers.
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Former defence minister Kim Beazley warns a Donald Trump presidency could cause mayhem for Australia's national security and wreck the crucial security alliance with the United States.
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is accused of using dangerous language after suggesting that "Second Amendment people" — gun owners or those backing gun rights — could stop Hillary Clinton from winning the White House and picking new US Supreme Court justices.
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Fifty senior Republican national security officials issue a stinging rejection of the party's presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying he would be "the most reckless president in American history" if elected.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tries to regain momentum with an economic speech in which he floats new tax breaks and cuts to regulation, but is repeatedly interrupted by protesters.
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The Republican leader of the #NeverTrump movement, Kendal Unruh, is on a mission to take down Donald Trump from inside his own party.
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Both the Democratic Convention and Trump's behaviour since have re-set the dynamics of the US presidential election, with nominee Hillary Clinton climbing in the polls - nationally and in key battleground states.
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A US veteran starts a petition to send Donald Trump to war to allow the presidential candidate to earn his own Purple Heart medal after taking offence to comments Trump made at a rally in Virginia.
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After a turbulent campaign week that saw the Republican nominee for president lose support from within his own party, Donald Trump endorses fellow Republicans for re-election.
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A former top CIA official attacks Donald Trump as a danger to national security, saying President Vladimir Putin made the Republican presidential candidate an "unwitting agent" of Russia.
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Donald Trump's continued attacks on the parents of a Muslim US soldier killed in Iraq have dashed hopes of unity within the Republican Party, an insider says.
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The New York Police Department chief joins a growing list of people calling Donald Trump unfit to lead, saying the Republican mogul "scares the hell" out of him.
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A new US poll puts Hillary Clinton eight percentage points in front of Republican rival Donald Trump in the wake of his comments about the parents of a decorated Muslim US soldier.
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Early on Donald Trump was often called the "Teflon candidate" — he could say anything and it wouldn't affect his poll number — but this week is panning out differently, writes North America correspondent Stephanie March.
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US President Barack Obama issues a scathing attack on Donald Trump for criticising a Muslim family whose army captain son was killed in Iraq, challenging Republican leaders to withdraw support for their "unfit" nominee.
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Sales of pocket versions of the US constitution soar after the father of a fallen Muslim American soldier brandished a copy to denounce Donald Trump, igniting a major backlash against the Republican nominee.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett accuses Donald Trump of being afraid to let voters see his tax returns, and says he will personally drive people to polling stations to vote against him.
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Muslim women hit back at Donald Trump's suggestion the mother of a slain soldier was not "allowed" to speak at a rally, flooding Twitter with the hashtag #CanYouHearUsNow and asking the Republican presidential candidate: "Do I look oppressed to you?"
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When it becomes hard to tell the difference between the language of parliament and the language of the underworld, we have a problem, says writer David Astle.
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Decorated war veteran and Republican senator John McCain joins President Barack Obama in criticising presidential candidate Donald Trump for his attack on the parents of a slain Muslim soldier.
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The Kremlin says allegations that Moscow was behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails are part of a cover-up designed to hide the fact that the US election campaign had been manipulated.
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The parents of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq accuse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of ignorance for his criticism of them after their appearance at the Democratic National Convention.
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Hillary Clinton says Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers, and accuses Republican contender Donald Trump of showing support for Vladimir Putin.
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Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a slain American Muslim soldier who died in the Iraq War, respond to US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's dismissal of their impassioned speech at last week's Democratic National Convention.
