After a week’s worth of soundbites from presidential candidates about “anchor babies” and repealing birthright citizenship, it is now clear, if it wasn’t already, that Donald Trump has the steering wheel of the Republican Party firmly in his grasp.
Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.
(AP) — The Kentucky Republican Party has approved a presidential caucus allowing Rand Paul to run for president and re-election to his U.S. Senate seat at the same time without running afoul of state law.
(REUTERS) – Republican Donald Trump is pulling away from the pack in the race for the party’s U.S. presidential nomination, widening his lead over his closest rivals in the past week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.
The candidate most imperiled by Trump’s staying power is Bush, whose campaign had expected that Trump’s childish antics would position the former governor favorably as the party’s resident grown-up. Instead, the opposite has happened.
Sen. Rand Paul’s campaign is teetering on the edge, with the once-trendy presidential candidate telling fellow Kentucky Republicans that his chances of winning the 2016 GOP nomination are no better than “1 in 10.”
Mike Fiers made his first complete game count. The Astros righty no-hit the most expensive line-up in baseball on Friday night.
Tucked away at his family home in Delaware, Vice President Joe Biden has been huddling with longtime aides and family members, evaluating what it would take to launch a viable presidential campaign against well-funded Democratic opponents with a huge head start.
In lockstep with CNN’s Douglas Brinkley, Politico’s Ben Schreckinger links Donald Trump’s rally in Mobile, Alabama to segregationist George Wallace.
Donald Trump, the real estate/reality TV mogul and current Republican frontrunner in the 2016 presidential primary, held a campaign rally Friday evening in Mobile, Alabama to a crowd of tens of thousands. Breitbart News has the minute-by-minute report on his speech.
Bloomberg’s Joshua Green explains why Donald Trump is in Alabama:
The Dow Jones industrial average has plunged more than 530 points and is in a correction amid a global sell-off sparked by fears about China’s slowing economy. Oil tumbled below $40 per barrel for the first time since the financial crisis.
USA Today takes a look at the Trump political team’s path to the nomination.
Leading Republican candidate for the White House Donald Trump hasn’t officially begun scouting running mates – the first primary is still six months away.
At Bloomberg, Sahil Kapur explains that Sen. Ted Cruz disagrees with Donald Trump about legal immigration.
In the Jerusalem Post, GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee calls for regime change in Iran.
Donald Trump’s immigration plan is splitting the packed GOP presidential field, rekindling debate on an issue that has long vexed the Republican Party.
Police say three South Florida teenagers have confessed to luring a Homestead boy to the woods, where he was repeatedly hacked with a machete and forced into a shallow grave as he lay mortally wounded.
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter is leaving open the possibility of taking a previously planned trip to Nepal despite undergoing radiation treatment for cancer on his brain.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Walking into Mexico at the nation’s busiest border crossing with the United States is no longer an uninterrupted stroll for foreigners.
Donald Trump would take Ronda Rousey into battle. The women’s mixed-martial arts champion wouldn’t place Donald Trump’s name into the ballot box.
Donald Trump is truly the Republicans’ worst nightmare, and they aren’t worried about waking up to a nasty pinch.
Politico’s Seung Min Kim describes Donald Trump’s immigration proposal to end birthright citizenship as “a new litmus test on the right.”
Head lice populations in 25 states are resistant to the active ingredient in many over-the-counter treatments recommended by doctors and schools, scientists found in new research.
In a Wednesday hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman ordered NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to return to his courtroom on August 31.
