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Clinton 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...
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Trump, 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...
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Democrats 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...
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Clinton 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...
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Democrats 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,...
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Democrat 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...
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Sanders 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...
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Obama 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...
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Both 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...
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Democrats 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...
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Trump 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...
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US 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...
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Obama 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...
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U.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...
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Government 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...
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Pennsylvania 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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