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President Barack Obama directed harsh criticism at Rep. Darrell Issa at a fundraiser Sunday in La Jolla, California, claiming the former House Oversight Committee chairman's "primary contribution to the US Congress has been to obstruct and to waste taxpayer dollars on trumped up investigations that have led nowhere."

A US congressman is warning a new Pentagon effort to provide troops with Internet service could give the Russians access to their personal information.

A Hillary Clinton triumph in November will be made sweeter by a wide margin of victory, President Barack Obama told Democratic donors in California Monday.

In Elizabeth Warren's view, Donald Trump thinks "a mouth full of Tic Tacs" means he can "force himself on any woman within groping distance."

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte has dropped Donald Trump -- and now, facing a tough re-election challenge, she is making the case that she'd be a check on Hillary Clinton in Washington.

If Hillary Clinton is elected president, she will quickly ask Congress to revise and update America's current Authorization for Use of Military Force in the fight against ISIS, says her nominee for vice president, Sen. Tim Kaine.

Political ads can be downright scary these days. Between Donald Trump's increasingly apocalyptic videos about his rival candidate's alleged failures, and Hillary Clinton's slow music videos of Trump's critical views of women, US political ads seem like commercials for a movie you want to avoid.

The 2016 presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has become a substance-free fight between "two teenagers" who don't like each other, according to environmentalist Erin Brockovich, who told CNN that she has not decided whether she will be casting a ballot November 8.

The most dramatic and unpredictable presidential election in decades is suddenly slipping into a strange state of suspended animation.

Nearly 28,000 people in Virginia registered to vote online last week during the 36-hour extension of the state's voter-registration deadline, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.

With mere weeks until Election Day, the Clinton campaign is committing considerable time to North Carolina.

Donald Trump criticized the Obama administration's move to normalize relations with Cuba as a "very weak agreement," though he said some sort of a deal is "fine," in an interview with a local CBS station in Miami over the weekend.

Rapper Jay Z will headline a concert for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland before Election Day, according to a Clinton aide.

Despite missing a ninth member for more than eight months now, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer expressed confidence Monday the high court would function properly if thrown into the crucible of presidential politics.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has become the first major American newspaper to endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. They've chosen do to so just two weeks away from the election in the key battleground state of Nevada.

CNN Democratic political contributor Van Jones had a colorful way of describing Donald Trump's evolution on the 2016 campaign trail Monday.

Somewhere along the campaign trail I fell into the habit of smiling back at members of the crowd as they jeered at me.

Hillary Clinton is steadily moving her focus beyond Donald Trump, increasingly planning for what she believes will be her transition to the presidency after a final two-week dash through battleground states.

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His deep disdain for Donald Trump now long established, President Barack Obama is turning his arrows on Republican lawmakers stuck with the GOP nominee, landing Air Force One on their turf and unleashing a torrent of insults.