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Donald Trump: Illegals treated better than US veterans

Illegal immigrants in the US often get better care than the nation's military veterans, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said.

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Donald Trump reaches the magic number to clinch US Republican presidential nomination

Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign.

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Trump poised to be competitive presidential candidate after clinching Republican nomination

​Brash U.S. billionaire Donald Trump on Thursday hit the number of delegates needed to grab the Republican Party (GOP) nomination, as some experts predict that he will be a competitive candidate in the presidential race.

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Trump fires his national political director: campaign sources

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has fired his national political director after six weeks on the job, campaign sources said on Wednesday.

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Trump, aiming to offset money disadvantage, escalates Clinton attacks

Donald Trump this week took his use of sordid accusations against Democrat Hillary Clinton to levels unprecedented in modern U.S. presidential campaigns, in the latest example of the Republican's unorthodox playbook.

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Mexico prepares to counter 'the Trump Emergency’

Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, was recently stuck in Mexico City traffic, overcome with frustration — not by the congestion, but by something that was irritating him even more: Donald J. Trump. He grabbed his phone, turned the lens on himself and pressed record.

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Twitter, Trump's trusty weapon, could backfire

This theory is not exactly bunk. It’s true that Mr. Trump’s Twitter feed, with its staccato cadences and unending exclamation marks, can be irresistible even to his critics.

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Markets yet to come to grips with “Trump risk”

In mid-March, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), part of the sister company to The Economist magazine, published its latest list of risks facing the global economy.

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Donald Trump: Being smart is dumb, ignorance is good

On Sunday, Barack Obama delivered a stirring commencement speech to the graduating seniors of Rutgers University in which he condemned the toxic “anti-intellectualism” that has taken hold during the current presidential campaign. “Class of 2016, let me be as clear as I can be: in politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,” the outgoing president opined. “It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness, that’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”

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Donald Trump willing to meet North Korea's Kim over nukes, scrap climate deal

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear programme, proposing a major shift in US policy towards the isolated nation.

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Trump needs to improve standing with female voters in race to White House: experts

​Brash U.S. billionaire and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will have to ramp up his game with women amid accusations that he is sexist and rude to women, experts said.

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Trump denies having posed as his own spokesman

Back when Donald Trump’s love life was tabloid heaven, a Trump spokesman with intimate knowledge of the businessman’s personal relationships offered juicy stories about a failing marriage, a new live-in paramour and three other girlfriends he was juggling at once.

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Republican Party's split could be mended as Trump softens stance on key issues

The split within the Republican Party (GOP) over controversial candidate Donald Trump could be mended as the brash billionaire softens his stance on key issues such as a proposed ban on entry of Muslims.

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“Disqualifying”: Romney and Clinton tear into Trump for refusing to release tax returns

“There is only one logical explanation” for this, said Mitt Romney: “There is a bombshell in them.”

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Trump, Ryan pledge to work together

​Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday the two were "totally committed" to cooperation.

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What's in Trump's returns? A look at how he plays tax game

Tax experts say the feet-high stack of returns that Donald Trump is posed with for photos could provide significant insights about the presumptive GOP nominee — new details on his income and wealth, how much he gives to charity, the health of his businesses and, overall, how Trump plays the tax game. Here's some information that may be embedded in Trump's tax returns. (AP)