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Sen. John McCain has a reputation for being a tough political player but he let his guard down Thursday when he admitted having a soft spot for American pop princess Britney Spears.

Apple, Facebook and Target, along with 26 other American companies, have signed onto the White House's Equal Pay Pledge, the Obama administration announced Friday, in an effort to eliminate the gender pay gap.

President Barack Obama is expanding a national monument off the coast of his native Hawaii, establishing the largest protected marine sanctuary in the world, the White House announced Friday.

Rep. Steve King, a staunch critic of illegal immigration, said Friday he's "happy to hear" Donald Trump clarifying his immigration policy and reiterating his opposition to legal status for undocumented immigrants.

Donald Trump is not on the ballot in Minnesota yet, as Republicans scramble to fix a potentially embarrassing oversight before the state's Monday deadline.

Donald Trump ruled out Thursday a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants in the United States, walking back comments he made earlier this week in which he appeared open to the idea.

The speech that Hillary Clinton delivered on Thursday was the one that many Democrats had been waiting for.

Hillary Clinton said Friday her family's foundation is "looking for partners" to help separate its work from her potential election as president, but again insisted that such an effort would take "a long time."

On his first morning as president, the CIA told Gerald Ford that Richard Nixon's resignation the day before had probably left many adversaries, including America's Cold War nemesis, the Soviet Union, "in something of a state of shock."

The White House is condemning the Syrian government Thursday after having announced that a year-long UN-backed investigation found that both the Assad regime and ISIS had used chemical weapons.

A federal judge has ordered the State Department to begin delivering emails uncovered by the FBI in its investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server by September 13.

Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton Thursday of "trying to smear" his supporters as racists as Clinton prepared to tie Trump to white supremacists and far-right fringe groups.

Hillary Clinton will try to cast Donald Trump as outside the norm of American politics Thursday, drawing a line between the Ku Klux Klan, its former leader David Duke and the Republican presidential nominee.

August has thus far been kind to Hillary Clinton's poll numbers both nationally and in some critical battleground states.

Jeb Bush hammered Donald Trump Thursday after the Republican presidential nominee appeared open to major shifts on his immigration platform -- several of which echoed the former Florida governor's during the GOP primary fight.

Previously confined to darker corners of the internet, the alt-right is moving into the spotlight.

President Jimmy Carter wasn't too sure he would be in Memphis this year for Habitat for Humanity's 33rd Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that he would allow exceptions to let some undocumented immigrants to stay in the US, vowing against granting them citizenship but telling Fox News, "there's no amnesty, but we work with them."

Maine Gov. Paul LePage rekindled a months-old controversy Wednesday night when he told a town hall that "90-plus percent" of drug dealers arrested in Maine "are black and Hispanic people" from states like New York and Connecticut, according to a report.

Federal law enforcement agencies have opened an investigation into the alleged hacking of comedian Leslie Jones' website, according to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Marsha Catron.