President-elect Donald Trump is embarking on the massive undertaking of creating a new administration as a circus-like atmosphere unfolds around his building in Manhattan.

Brawling from the beginning, a fiery Marco Rubio went after front-runner Donald Trump in the last Republican presidential debate before the key ‘Super Tuesday’ contest, lashing out at his position on immigration, his privileged background, and his speaking style.

Rick Santorum, the conservative former senator who won nearly a dozen contests in the 2012 race for the Republican nomination, was due to suspend his latest and long-struggling run for the presidency last night.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is taking issue with the results of Monday’s Iowa caucuses, accusing winner Ted Cruz of fraud.

US billionaire and major Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson said he met presidential candidate Donald Trump earlier this week, describing the current front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination as “very charming.”

Donald Trump is likely to lose to Ted Cruz in the race to be Republican presidential nominee, writes John Bruton

Terror in Paris and California is stoking the increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric of prospective US presidential candidates ahead of both parties’ debates this week, writes Bette Browne

Republican US presidential candidate Ben Carson has taken the unusual step of insisting he tried to stab a child when he was younger — after CNN cast doubt on his claims of a violent past.

Donald Trump is the Republican candidate most trusted to manage the economy, deal with foreign leaders and serve as commander in chief, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll of Republicans conducted after the party’s third debate.

Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson, are threatening to boycott the next GOP debate because of its proposed format. This is a rare political alliance between the leading outsider candidates.

The founder of the global News Corp media empire, Rupert Murdoch, is suggesting that US president Barack Obama is not a “real black president.”

Muslim Americans responded with a mix of frustration and anger to what many see as a growing wave of Islamophobia fuelled by two of the Republican Party’s most popular presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

Muslim Americans responded with a mix of frustration, exasperation and anger to what many see as a growing wave of Islamophobia fueled by two of the Republican Party’s most popular presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

Republican voters fed up with Washington have feted billionaire businessman Donald Trump as the ultimate 2016 outsider, making him the front-runner for the GOP nomination.

Amid the bombast of the Republican race for US president, Ben Carson comes across like a whisper.

Of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates who can be said to be having a "moment" this August, all of them have something in common.

Donald Trump, the man to beat in tonight’s first televised Republican presidential debate, said he does not plan to attack his rivals and downplayed expectations for his performance, saying “I’m not a debater.”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to make a big speech at the Mexico-Texas border today.

Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, will address a gathering of Republicans in California today that will mark his first public comments since making it known that he may run again in 2016.

Former NYPD detective Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland) takes up temporary residence on his sister’s couch, separated from his beautiful wife Amy (Paula Patton) and children Michael (Cameron Boyce) and Daisy (Erica Gluck) after he is involved in the fatal shooting of an undercover colleague.

A Singapore court today cleared doctors who last year tried to separate adult conjoined twins from Iran of any criminal liability, saying the operation, which ended fatally was an accident.