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Donald Trump supporter Ben Carson compared a transgender person to someone who wakes up one morning and decides he or she is Afghan after watching a movie or reading books about Afghanistan.

Rudy Giuliani never got the head-to-head match-up he'd wanted with Hillary Clinton in the 2000 New York Senate race.

The looming election and the Supreme Court will converge in the coming months as voting rights challenges on issues such as Voter ID, early vote cutbacks and same-day registration make their way to the high court.

The nation's two top elected Democrats have taken sides in California's contentious US Senate race, the only contest for a seat in that chamber pitting two Democrats against each other in the general election.

The hashtag #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes rumbled across social media platforms Tuesday morning to both mock and defend the Republican convention speech delivered by Melania Trump, wife of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Melania Trump steps onto center stage Monday for the highest-profile speech of her life.

Donald Trump called in and pre-empted Fox News' Republican National Convention coverage while two Benghazi attack survivors were on stage, because "it was important to do," his campaign chairman said Tuesday.

Politicians speak a lot, and they write a lot. But what happens when the words they speak and write aren't their own?

Michelle Obama sang and danced to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" in a preview clip of her upcoming appearance on the "The Late Late Show with James Corden," which is set to air Wednesday night.

Hillary Clinton said Monday that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was the most dangerous presidential candidate in the history of the United States.

Donald Trump said Monday he believes the Black Lives Matter movement has in some cases helped instigate the recent killings of police officers, and suggested he might direct his future attorney general to investigate the civil rights activist group.

The "Silent Majority" Donald Trump has inspired and rallied throughout his campaign congregated in a riverfront park here Monday -- a hodgepodge of supporters who, while unlikely to step foot inside the convention hall less than a mile away, nevertheless counted themselves among the real estate mogul's most fervent backers.

On Monday night, the speakers ranged from Melania Trump and her husband to governors and sheriffs.

The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday evening at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, with a slew of speakers highlighting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's agenda.

Thoroughly defeated in meetings last week, the delegates hoping to upend Donald Trump's nomination have one last chance as the full Republican National Convention kicks off on Monday.

As Donald Trump's convention moment arrives, one overriding concern among Republican delegates from battleground states is the lack of evidence pointing to a campaign ground game capable of competing with Hillary Clinton's virtual army deployed to target voters.

The mother of a victim of the Benghazi attack told Republicans gathered in Cleveland on Monday that Hillary Clinton "should be in stripes."

Turkey's attempted military coup has brought its relationship with the US to a perilous crossroads.

President Barack Obama on Monday will award the Medal of Honor to Retired Lt. Col. Charles Kettles, who served in the Army during the Vietnam War and is credited with saving the lives of 40 soldiers.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to rehear the controversial case concerning the Obama administration's executive actions on immigration that split the justices 4-4 last spring once the court has nine members again.