Mrs Hillary Clinton has moved aggressively to press her advantage in the presidential race, urging black voters in North Carolina to vote early and punish Republican office-holders for supporting Mr Donald Trump, even as Mr Trump's party increasingly concedes he is unlikely to recover in the polls.
Mrs Hillary Clinton and Mr Donald Trump battled over their judgement and preparation to be commander-in-chief at a forum that sounded the starting gun for the final stretch of the presidential race and offered a potential preview of what are expected to be rollicking debates in the weeks to come.
The British government will set out this week the work it has done so far on preparing to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday.
Hillary Clinton is raising huge amounts of cash for the Democratic National Committee and state parties, according to figures released by her campaign on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for a substantial investment in swing states during the fall.
Declaring he was tired of talking about billionaire Donald Trump, President Barack Obama urged Democrats on Monday (Aug 15) not to grow too confident about their prospects in the 2016 election despite Mrs Hillary Clinton's strong position in the race for the White House.
Senator Bernie Sanders capped off a tumultuous first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) with a speech that urged his supporters to back Mrs Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential nominee, while also continuing to fuel his political revolution.
An aide for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday she took responsibility for copying portions of First Lady Michelle Obama's 2008 address for Melania Trump's convention speech on Monday.
Mrs Theresa May, who takes over today as Britain's new Prime Minister, faces a daunting agenda: She has to negotiate her country's exit from the European Union (EU), a deeply controversial process. And she could be confronted with an economic downturn.
Theresa May promised to build a "better Britain" and to make the UK's EU exit a "success" after she was announced as the new Tory leader and soon-to-be PM.
The US State Department is to restart its investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified material when secretary of state.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said it will not recommend charges over Mrs Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state, although she was found "extremely careless" in handling highly classified information.
For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has traveled the country talking to voters about her policy plans. She vowed to improve infrastructure in her first 100 days in office, promised to increase funding for Alzheimer’s research and proposed a $10 billion plan to combat drug and alcohol addiction.
Mr. Clinton’s more emotive style appears to resonate with blue-collar voters in ways Mrs. Clinton’s has not. Some 55 percent of voters nationwide said they do not believe Mrs. Clinton “cares about people like me,” according to a Quinnipiac poll conducted in February.
Former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush was discharged from a Houston hospital on Saturday, a family spokesman said.
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