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The Washington Post's Fact Checkers awarded Hillary Clinton "four Pinocchios" -- their worst score -- after the former Secretary of State attempted to defend her use of a private email server in an interview Sunday.

In an implicit rebuke of Donald Trump's comments about the family of a Muslim-American soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq, President Barack Obama declared Monday that "no one has given more for our freedom and our security than our gold star families."

Two scenes of wealth unfolded in this Republican bastion this weekend.

The United States has expanded its airstrikes against ISIS into Libya, bombing targets in the coastal city of Sirte, U.S. officials said Monday.

On a Rust Belt bus tour spanning three days and more than 600 miles over the weekend, Hillary Clinton embarked on a daring strategy that could decide the 2016 election: stealing from Donald Trump's base of support.

Now it's on to the real fight.

Donald Trump's criticism about the Muslim parents of a slain American soldier has generated -- once again -- a backlash within his own party.

The father of the slain Muslim U.S. soldier at the center of a controversial feud with Donald Trump said Monday he has no desire to escalate the conflict and that it's time to "join hands with good Muslims" -- even as the Republican candidate attacked him on Twitter during the live interview.

John Dickerson spends a lot time thinking about politicians -- as host of CBS's "Face the Nation" and now as the author of the new book "Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History," a collection of presidential campaign lore.

A group of families of fallen service members wrote a letter Monday condemning Donald Trump's "anti-American" comments toward the parents of a slain Muslim U.S. solider, and demanded an apology from the Republican presidential hopeful.

Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a military move into Ukraine -- even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country's Crimean peninsula.

Sen. John McCain accused Donald Trump of defaming Khizr Khan and argued the Republican presidential candidate does not represent the GOP.

Hillary Clinton has earned an early surprise endorsement from The Houston Chronicle with the Texas newspaper describing Donald Trump as "totally lacking in qualifications to be president."

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange refused Monday to say whether Russian hackers were responsible for the leak of damning emails which ultimately forced Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign.

Tim Kaine differs with Hillary Clinton on a longstanding rule banning federal taxpayer dollars from funding abortions, the Democratic vice presidential candidate told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," in an interview that aired Sunday.

CNN is set to host a primetime one-hour town hall with the Libertarian Party ticket, former Govs. Gary Johnson and William Weld, on Wednesday in New York City.

The father of a Muslim-American soldier who was killed in the Iraq War delivered a passionate appeal at the Democratic National Convention for voters to support Hillary Clinton, accusing Republican Donald Trump of sacrificing "nothing" and "smearing the character" of religious minorities like his family.

Donald Trump responded to a number of speakers at the Democratic National Convention, praising some of their addresses -- like that of first lady Michelle Obama -- while hammering others.

Khizr Khan, the father of a US soldier slain in Iraq in 2004, said Sunday that Donald Trump has a "black soul."

Charles Koch, frustrated by questions about whether he could support Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, on Sunday deemed that idea a "blood libel."