Biden seen as weak front-runner as 2020 US Democratic race heats up
As summer ends and the race for the 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination shifts into a higher gear, former Vice President Joe Biden’s perilous position...
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Biden says racism in US is institutional and ‘white man’s problem’
Racism in America is an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of colour,” Joe Biden has said. The former vice president said the way...
Democrat Buttigieg unveils $80bn plan to bring internet to all rural Americans
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveiled an ambitious plan on Tuesday to transform the economy of rural America, including spending $80 billion to provide high-speed...
Biden says Trump’s `toxic tongue’ linked to US mass shootings
Democratic presidential front-runner and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump of fuelling the white supremacy that’s blamed for several mass shootings...
Bernie Sanders raises $18.2m for White House run, takes fundraising lead
By John Whitesides Presidential contender Bernie Sanders raised $18.2 million in the first three months of the year for his 2020 White House bid, his...
U.S. disrupted Russian trolls on day of November election -report
The U.S. military disrupted the internet access of a Russian troll farm accused of trying to influence American voters on Nov. 6, 2018, the day...
Lawsuit accuses Trump of kissing campaign worker without her consent
By Letitia Stein A woman who worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sued the president on Monday, accusing him of kissing her without consent before...
Seven takeaways from the U.S. congressional elections
By James Oliphant Tuesday’s U.S. congressional elections ended with what might be called a split decision. Democrats gained more than enough seats to take control...
Democrats seize U.S. House control, Trump under pressure
Democrats rode a wave of dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, giving them the opportunity...
US elections, a battle to protect a leader under siege?
For many Americans, Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections are a referendum on Republican President Donald Trump’s divisive persona, hard-line policies and pugnacious politics. But on the...
Trump says Putin summit ‘even better’ than Nato meeting
President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning cast his Monday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a glowing light and attempted to discredit the widely...
Shock as Trump backs Putin on election meddling at summit
By Jeff Mason and Denis Pinchuk US President Donald Trump said after meeting Vladimir Putin on Monday he saw no reason to believe his own...
Russia ran US election interference, no Trump collusion
Russia ran an information warfare campaign to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but there is no evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with...
Trump’s lead lawyer for federal Russia probe resigns
US President Donald Trump‘s lead lawyer for the federal special counsel probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election resigned on Thursday, the New York...
Cambridge Analytica CEO claims influence on U.S. election, Facebook questioned
The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy’s online campaign played a...
Trump consultants harvested data from 50 million Facebook users -reports
Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election...
Facebook says 126 mln Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts
Facebook Inc said on Monday that Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts on the social network over a two-year period in an effort to sway...
Facebook says likely Russian-based operation funded U.S. ads
Facebook Inc said it had found that an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting divisive social and political...
Grand jury issues subpoenas in connection with 2016 US election
A grand jury has issued subpoenas in connection with a June 2016 meeting that included President Donald Trump’s son, his son-in-law and a Russian lawyer,...
Trump’s son met Russian lawyer for damaging Clinton information
President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., agreed to meet with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the 2016 election campaign after being promised damaging information about...