One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015
June 15, 2015 It is an oppressively humid day in South Florida and Jeb Bush has come home to declare his candidacy for president. The big crowd assembled at Miami...
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Security issues shape GOP debate
The Republican presidential contenders on Tuesday night framed their final debate of the year around a single question: Which of them is best equipped - by background, tough-mindedness and leadership...
Debate lays bare a GOP dividing line
The leading Republican presidential candidates clashed sharply over immigration policy, military spending, and other intractable and emotional issues in a debate here Tuesday night, bringing into sharp relief the party's...
Democrats see a more substantive, if sleepy, debate than rowdy GOP show
The Republican presidential debates have become appointment television. Tens of millions of Americans have tuned in to watch Donald Trump whack his unwieldy field of opponents - pooh-poohing Jeb Bush's...
As Republicans take the debate stage, all eyes will be on Donald Trump
Jeb Bush has been practicing all summer for this moment: his first big chance to convince voters he is a reliable problem solver fit to sit in the Oval Office....
A college balks at Hillary Clinton’s fee, books Chelsea for $65,000 instead
When the University of Missouri at Kansas City was looking for a celebrity speaker to headline its gala luncheon marking the opening of a women's hall of fame, one of...
For the Clintons, a big question: What to do with Bill?
The scene that unfolded here last week as Bill Clinton convened world leaders for a philanthropic conference was hardly what his wife's champion-for-everyday-Americans campaign would have ordered up. Gathered in...
Indiana law draws Republican White House hopefuls into the culture wars
The national debate over an Indiana religious-liberties law seen as anti-gay has drawn the entire field of Republican presidential contenders into the divisive culture wars, which badly damaged Mitt Romney...
Paul-Rubio feud over Cuba a preview of GOP’s 2016 foreign policy debate?
Two of the Republican Party's top White House hopefuls clashed sharply Friday over President Barack Obama's new Cuba policy, a harbinger of a growing GOP rift over foreign affairs that...
Elite figures top list of Clinton charity donors
Former President Bill Clinton has raised more than $500 million for his charitable foundation from foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, and an international who's who of royal families, corporate barons,...