For many Latinos, 2016 was supposed to be the year they'd see one of their own on the presidential ballot. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio did their best on the Republican side and for a while Hilary Clinton kept their hopes high until she picked Tim Kaine to be her running mate.
Even scorching heat and calamitous thunderstorms that rocked the mid-Atlantic coast this week didn't stop Bernie Sanders' die-hard supporters from traveling to Philadelphia to protest the Democratic National Convention, where many have spent the week sleeping in tents in nearby campgrounds.
Wikileaks released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic National Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors, and one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won a say in the drafting of the party's platform.
President Barack Obama's three Democratic convention speeches have, in succession, launched his national career, thrust him into the Oval Office and secured him a second term. On Wednesday, he'll work during his fourth marquee convention address to ensure those earlier efforts weren't for naught.
Donald Trump appeared to call on Russian intelligence agencies Wednesday to find 30,000 of Hillary Clinton's deleted emails, adding a stunning twist to the uproar over Moscow's alleged intervention in the presidential election.
The Democratic National Convention's third night looked to shake off any lingering disunity among Bernie Sanders' supporters and emphasize rallying around the new nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Victims and families of gun violence delivered emotional pleas Wednesday night in support of Hillary Clinton as a president who would act to curb mass shootings and press for new gun laws.
Tim Kaine, the son of an ironworker born into a non-political family in Minnesota 58 years ago, delivered the most consequential speech of his career Wednesday night as he introduced himself to the country as Hillary Clinton's running mate and vouched for her character, saying: "I trust Hillary Clinton."
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Tim Kaine, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's running mate, are set to speak Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention. Check back this afternoon to follow along with CNN's livestream and live updates from the DNC at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
A T-shirt predicting a female president was pulled from a Walmart store 20 years ago. Its designer is giddy a woman stands a chance of winning the White House now
Vice President Joe Biden rejected Donald Trump's TV catch-phrase -- "you're fired!" -- with a line of his own during a furious tirade against the billionaire Republican nominee Wednesday.
A pair of Bernie Sanders supporters confronted Sen. Barbara Boxer Wednesday at her book-signing, accusing the California Democrat of lying about threats she received from other Sanders backers.
Nearing the White House means you get a Secret Service detail, and that means the elite security agents need to have a new name buzzing into their ears.
Donald Trump bounced from one topic to the next during a news conference Wednesday morning with his trademark combativeness and propensity for courting controversy.
Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic presidential nomination this week, but polls suggest she still has room to grow in terms of her favorability, trustworthiness and likeability. According to a CNN/ORC poll conducted in June, nearly 6-in-10 voters view both Clinton and her rival, Republican nominee Donald Trump, unfavorably.
Hillary Clinton hasn't even said anything about the Trans-Pacific Partnership recently -- and yet, in 24 hours, she became embroiled in a new controversy about her stance on the deal.
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