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Senior Republicans in Washington are quietly advising the Republican National Committee to continue its financial investment behind Donald Trump, arguing that the committee needs to help keep the race competitive with Hillary Clinton or risk an electoral bloodbath that would flip control of Congress.

Donald Trump's campaign is undergoing a major staff shakeup with less than three months to Election Day, adding two officials to top posts overseeing his struggling campaign.

Russian officials pushed back hard Wednesday after the US suggested that Moscow's use of an Iranian air base to strike targets in Syria could violate a UN Security Council resolution.

Right-wing media enabled Donald Trump's political rise. Now it's taking a lead role in his presidential campaign.

Hillary and Bill Clinton's ties to two influential Lebanese-Nigerian businessmen are raising fresh questions about whether the State Department showed favoritism to Clinton Foundation donors -- an issue that has continued to dog the Democratic nominee during the 2016 presidential contest.

A new Indiana poll offers some good news for Donald Trump, who has a double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in the Hoosier State.

The Cold War is suddenly back as a hot topic in American politics.

Hillary Clinton said Wednesday Donald Trump's staff shake up wouldn't do much to alter the course of his campaign.

Donald Trump's new campaign manager once made the case to Republicans that the party should embrace a comprehensive immigration bill and legal status for undocumented immigrants -- differing sharply with the GOP candidate's hardline stance on the issue.

Donald Trump shook up his campaign for the second time this summer, appointing pollster Kellyanne Conway as his new campaign manager on Wednesday.

The Pentagon on Monday announced that 15 detainees held at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had been transferred to the United Arab Emirates -- the largest single transfer of detainees since President Barack Obama assumed office in 2009 after campaigning on a platform that included closing the controversial camp.

Despite record levels of dissatisfaction with the Republican and Democrat candidates, nearly 70% of Americans know nothing about the Green Party presidential hopeful Jill Stein, according to a recent Gallup poll.

World-renowned ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov says Donald Trump's words are reminiscent of rhetoric from his childhood in the Soviet Union.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has been waging an uphill battle for name recognition as she pursues her White House bid. But as she emerges in the public eye -- she is participating in a CNN-hosted town hall on Wednesday -- so have some of the retired medical doctor's past controversial comments on vaccines, her concerns about internet use being linked to poor health and GMOs.

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, won the Republican primary for Wyoming's only House seat Tuesday.

Donald Trump made a pitch for African-American voters on Tuesday by calling for more police in America's inner cities, arguing that Democratic policies have failed minority communities and accusing Democrats of "peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force."

A year after 300 million gallons of heavy metal sludge from the shuttered Gold King Mine gushed into a tributary of the Animas River, the Navajo Nation is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for what it sees as negligence in cleaning up the disaster -- serving up a potent election-year issue for Republicans against one of their favorite targets.

Newly released documents give a clearer picture of what was happening in Donald Trump's business organization after he made controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants during his campaign kickoff.

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan said Tuesday that "yes," she thinks Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy -- the day after the New Hampshire senate candidate declined to say so in a CNN interview.