Clinton backs Obama’s Islamic State strategy in Democratic debate
By John Whitesides and Luciana Lopez U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton backed elements of President Barack Obama’s strategy to fight Islamic State militants in a debate on...
View ArticleWhite House hopefuls Trump, Sanders capture New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb 9 (Reuters) – Riding a wave of voter anger at traditional politicians, billionaire Donald Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential nominating contest on Tuesday and U.S....
View ArticleClinton, Sanders both say they can beat Trump during feisty Michigan debate
Democratic presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton sparred in a debate on Sunday over who had the best chance to beat Republican front-runner Donald Trump, and mocked the level of...
View ArticleSanders wins Alaska, Washington, Hawaii caucuses
By John Whitesides and Amanda Becker Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii on Saturday, chipping away at front-runner Hillary...
View ArticleClinton and Sanders face off in Wyoming as New York match-up looms
By Amanda Becker DEMOCRATIC rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are facing off in a U.S. presidential nominating contest in Wyoming on Saturday, as the candidates gear up for a crucial match-up...
View ArticleTrump, Clinton take New York, move closer to presidential nomination
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton won commanding victories in New York state’s U.S. presidential nominating contests on Tuesday, recapturing lost campaign momentum and moving the...
View ArticleDemocrats Clinton, Sanders split nominating contests in Oregon, Kentucky
Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders each picked up primary wins on Tuesday in yet another demonstration of how divided the party is in the drawn-out national race to win the...
View ArticleClinton declares victory in Democratic race, hails a milestone
Hillary Clinton declared herself the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. president on Tuesday, embracing her role in history as the first woman to lead a major party in a race for the White House. The...
View ArticleDemocrats end Congress sit-in over gun control (Update 4)
By Susan Cornwell Democrats in the US House of Representatives on Thursday ended a more than 25-hour-long sit-in held on the chamber’s floor to protest the lack of action on gun control measures,...
View ArticleDemocrat Clinton picks Kaine as running mate, bypassing liberals
By John Whitesides and Amanda Becker Hillary Clinton named U.S. Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate on Friday, opting for an experienced governing partner who will help her present the Democratic...
View ArticleSanders supporters boo as he urges them to elect Clinton US president (Update 4)
By John Whitesides and Jonathan Allen Bernie Sanders on Monday urged his supporters to back Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in her White House bid, drawing jeers and shouts of “We want Bernie” in a...
View ArticleObama to pitch for Clinton as having the judgment for the White House
Barack Obama will add an optimistic pitch on Wednesday to the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman US president, as he seeks to hand off the White House to a trusted fellow Democrat and...
View ArticleBoth Democrats and Republicans included Cyprus in Presidential Elections...
Following interventions by Greek American leaders, political platforms approved at the Republican and the Democratic Conventions referred to the Cyprus issue, although the drafts sent to the...
View ArticleDemocrats and Republicans reverse their traditional roles
By Bill Schneider After 50 years, liberals are no longer on the defensive. The party’s journey has been from Clinton to Clinton. Former President Bill Clinton led the Democratic Party to the centre in...
View ArticleTrump says he won’t leave the race as Sunday’s debate looms
Donald Trump on Sunday said he would not abandon the presidential race even after the leak of a 2005 video where he used lewd language about a woman. He said he still had “tremendous support”. Trump is...
View ArticleUS Democrats plot uphill fight against some Trump nominations
US Senate Democrats plan to fight some of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for top administration jobs, but history and the party’s minority status in the chamber are not on their side. A simple...
View ArticleObama blasts ‘politics of division’ on return to campaign trail
Former President Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail on Thursday for the first time since he left the White House, called on voters to reject a growing “politics of division” that he said was...
View ArticleU.S. Republicans scramble for votes in Congress as shutdown looms
The White House on Wednesday threw its support behind a Republican proposal to avert a government shutdown at week’s end with a one-month extension in funding, but it was unclear whether there were...
View ArticleGovernment still shut down on Monday as U.S. Senate fails to clinch deal
A U.S. government shutdown will enter its third day on Monday as Senate negotiators failed to reach agreement late on Sunday to restore federal spending authority and deal with demands from Democrats...
View ArticlePennsylvania vote down to wire in ominous sign for U.S. Republicans
A U.S. House of Representatives election in Pennsylvania that is seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s performance was a dead heat on Tuesday, an ominous sign for Republicans eight months...
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