Twitter has handed over to Senate investigators the profile names of 201 accounts linked to Russian attempts at influencing the 2016 presidential election.

Newly-appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is threatening to get the FBI involved in a crackdown on leaks from the Trump administration.

In its first 100 days, the Trump White House has done better than many expected in handling some crises and the strategic signals it projects to the world, says Peter Apps

The great American presidential mud wrestling match has reached its climax. There will soon be a blonde wig, or two, on the green.

The senator is a cause rather than just a candidate and thus has a real chance to beat Clinton, writes Robert L Borosage

“Everywhere there were bodies with no heads. There was a woman screaming while she was holding her baby and she screamed: ‘Where is my baby?’ I told her she was holding her child but she said she had one other that she couldn’t find.”

With US Republicans sharply split over a front-runner they cannot unite behind, a new group is trying to push the country’s top elected Republican, Paul Ryan, into the White House race.

It may be time to think the unthinkable. Donald Trump in the White House, not as a dinner time visitor in a tuxedo just passing through, but as full-time resident for the following four, perhaps eight years.

Donald Trump has been slammed for his “outrageous” behaviour after he appeared to mock a disabled reporter by imitating him.

Barack Obama brought a more inclusive society to power in 2008. To win the presidency, Hillary Clinton must hold this New America coalition together and broaden it further, says Bill Schneider            

Former president George W Bush has admitted he is a political problem for his brother Jeb and will stay out of his way if he seeks the White House in 2016.

Hillary Clinton’s family was "dead broke" and saddled with legal bills when she and her husband left the White House, the former first lady said at the start of a high-profile book tour that could precede a 2016 presidential campaign.

The White House has signalled that it would be open to a short-term hike in the US debt limit as the United States moved a step closer to its first-ever default while a separate impasse, a partial government shutdown, entered its second week.

Anthony Weiner’s rivals were split last night on whether the ex-lawmaker should drop his bid for mayor of New York after he admitted that he continued to send sexual messages to women he met online even after he was forced out of Congress over the issue.

Prominent Washington journalist Bob Woodward said a senior White House official threatened him he would “regret” publishing a story challenging the White House’s account of how the idea for automatic spending cuts originated.

With momentum on President Barack Obama’s side, Mitt Romney sought to explain to voters more clearly what he would do as president as he looked to right his struggling campaign and ease worries in Republican circles about its state seven weeks before election day.

A US congressman has had to apologise to his Christian constituents after being caught swimming naked in the holy Sea of Galilee while on a fact-finding mission to Israel.

US President Barack Obama, renowned as a champion fundraiser who piled up $750m (€600m) in 2008, warned supporters he would be outspent by his foe Mitt Romney in this year’s election.

Newt Gingrich has laid off a number of staff members in a last-ditch effort to take his presidential campaign to the Republican convention.

MITT ROMNEY just cannot get on the same page as working people, as his latest revelation of his taxes showed he is paying a lower tax rate than many workers because he lives primarily on income from investments rather than from paycheques.

Another woman has accused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment.

HIS presidential campaign in turmoil, Republican favourite Herman Cain refused to say last night whether he will ask his former employer — the National Restaurant Association — to terminate confidentiality restrictions on women who accused him of sexual harassment in the 1990s while he was head of the trade group.

US businessman Herman Cain denied he sexually harassed former employees and battling accusations of financial misconduct in his campaign as he navigates his way at the front of the pack in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Herman Cain refused to directly address a media report saying he had been accused of sexually suggestive behaviour towards at least two female employees while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

Would-be Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has denied reports he faced sexual harassment accusations from staff in the 1990s.

Michelle Obama is a practical dresser, and makes her wardrobe choices based on the weather.

ONE month ago Barack Obama’s historic bid for the White House looked jaded, now he is on the cusp of delivering his party’s most emphatic victory for 40 years.

It was an election about unity, non-partisanship and getting America back on track, until Senator John McCain reignited a war that could cost the Democrats the election.

President George Bush said he was disappointed in “flawed intelligence” before the Iraq war and fears that if a Democrat wins the US presidency in November and withdrew troops early, it could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States”.