Politics

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday called on rival Marco Rubio to drop out of the White House race after the billionaire businessman won in Louisiana and Kentucky—and the Florida senator ended yet another election night with no wins.

The Democrats' seventh presidential debate plays out Sunday night in a city that has come to represent all that's wrong with government. For 18 months, corrosive water from the Flint River leached lead into the drinking supply of Flint, Michigan, an impoverished, majority-black city whose local government was under state control.

Offering anything but clarity, Republicans delivered a split verdict between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in the latest round of presidential voting, offering fresh evidence of the turmoil still roiling the GOP after 19 states have had their say.

Glenn Beck is under investigation from the Secret Service after threatening to stab Donald Trump to death on his radio program, CBS reports.

A group of protesters who brandished signs and chanted “black lives matter” at a Donald Trump rally were escorted out by security. Video footage captured the protesters disrupting the New Orleans rally on Saturday. As the group chanted, Trump supporters chanted back “Trump, Trump, Trump,” as instructed by the presidential candidate.  Protesters Interrupt Trump Rally […]

Nakiya Wakes raised her hand in a church to ask Bernie Sanders what he would do to help the people of Flint if he is elected president

Five more states are chipping in verdicts on the Republican and Democratic presidential contests in races largely overshadowed by Super Tuesday and the big contests still to come. Yet candidates eager to gather enough support to snag their party's nomination—or at least stay relevant—are happy to scoop up delegates wherever they can.

DETROIT—The Republican establishment and its last best hopes to defeat Donald Trump spent a long and extraordinary day denouncing the billionaire businessman as dangerous, a “phony” and a “con man” unfit for office. Then, when it was all over, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich swallowed hard and said they’d support Trump if he […]

Carson's campaign is an extreme example of the big-money business of presidential politics. The candidate himself, a soft-spoken retired Baltimore neurosurgeon, has wondered aloud whether his campaign aides were taking advantage of him

The Justice Department will have to decide whether Hillary Clinton or any of her subordinates could face legal consequences for her use of a private email server

Oliver Jack Carter Lomas-Davis, the toddler who caught the attention of the supporters of Bernie Sanders at a Nevada rally, has sided from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

The controversial pop star Miley Cyrus has vowed to move to another country if Donald Trump is elected president.

Donald Trump responded to criticism from Mitt Romney in an interview with MSBC's "Morning Joe."

This morning, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney eviscerated Donald Trump, calling him a "phony," a "fraud," and said that his economic plans would be "very bad for American workers," asking GOP primary voters to cast their ballot for someone else.

SALT LAKE CITY—In an extraordinary display of Republican chaos, the party’s most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted current front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and a danger for the nation and the GOP. “His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader,” Romney declared. He called […]

The possibility of Donald Trump as Republican nominee — and perhaps president — is suddenly very real for the GOP in Congress

Standing in a line of thousands outside an arena at Colorado State University, Aleksandr Cronk contemplated the grim possibility that the man he was waiting to see, Bernie Sanders, may not make it to the November ballot and he'd have to decide whether to vote for Hillary Clinton.

WASHINGTON—Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he is effectively ending his bid for the White House Wednesday, concluding a roller-coaster campaign that briefly took him to the top of a chaotic GOP field but ended with a Super Tuesday whimper. “I do not see a political path forward,” Carson said in a statement posted on his […]

Making Sense of the Polls: the numbers tell the story of Super Tuesday.

The 2016 election has encompassed a breadth of issues—immigration, national security, even Supreme Court politics. But what about the workplace?

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump seized decisive Super Tuesday victories with math and momentum on their side, leaving rivals scrambling for last-chance, long-shot strategies. For the Republican establishment, the search was increasingly dire.

A high-profile endorsement from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin couldn't deliver this state for Donald Trump as Ted Cruz won the Alaska Republican presidential preference poll

Donald Trump added Georgia to his string of Republican primary victories on Super Tuesday, while Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in the state thanks to crucial support from African-American voters.

The two top Republican leaders in Congress denounced Donald Trump on Tuesday for his slow-moving disavowal of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Fox News Channel talk show host Bill O’Reilly has lost custody of his teenage children to his ex-wife, who has made domestic violence allegations against him.