President Donald Trump has appeared to cast doubt on the assessment of 17 US intelligence agencies that blame Russia for election meddling, questioning why the Obama administration did not try to stop it.

Donald Trump's top aides have said the US president-elect is not ready to accept the finding by intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate the billionaire property mogul.

Donald Trump’s habit of peddling hype and fabrication emerged unabated in the first presidential debate while Hillary Clinton played it cautiously in her statements, though not without error. They both denied making statements that they are on the record as saying.

Whether it’s by backing French ultra-nationalists, the Brexit campaign, or Catalan separatists, the Kremlin believes it benefits every time discord is sown in the West, argues Owen Matthews

The FBI said it is investigating how thousands of Democratic National Committee emails were hacked, a breach that Hillary Clinton's campaign maintains was committed by Russia to benefit Donald Trump.

President Barack Obama has offered Kanye West advice on running for office.

Actress Eva Longoria has become one of the most influential Latinos in the USA — a Bono for the Hispanic community, writes Andrew Romano

US President Barack Obama is using political tactics and rhetorical devices honed in his White House campaign to regain the advantage in the health care debate over increasingly vocal and organised critics.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $150m in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain.

Plans for a new contest to help find a winner in the close race for the Democratic presidential nomination have been scrapped because of a lack of support, the state party chairwoman said today.

Barack Obama’s campaign apologised to Hillary Clinton today after one of his key foreign policy aides branded the former first lady a desperate “monster”.

The close two-way race to become Democratic US Presidential candidate has landed party leaders with an unexpected problem over states barred from the contest.

A deranged man wearing what appeared to be a bomb strapped to his chest walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office in the US tonight, took several hostages and demanded to speak to the candidate, authorities said.

The ongoing row over President George W Bush’s military record has taken yet another twist with the release of documents relating to his service in the Texas Air National Guard.

Controversial movie maker Michael Moore has fired off at CNN bosses after journalist Bill Hammer hit him with a question about those who wanted to kill him on live TV.

A Republican official who worked with George Bush in an Alabama campaign in 1972 said she recalled him talking about his National Guard duty and seeing him in uniform before the election that year.

The jury has retired in the $5.1m defamation lawsuit against Watergate burglar G Gordon Liddy.