Michael Mathes

​Expect bare-knuckle political sparring when 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden battles his Democratic rivals this week

The biggest American political debate since the 2016 presidential campaign is occurring over two nights in Miami

A livid Trump abruptly shut down a White House meeting with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer

The former vice president jumped into a crowded Democratic field as an immediate frontrunner in the battle to oust President Donald Trump in 2020

Donald Trump, the oldest person ever elected US president, will be 74 on Inauguration Day 2021

Trump’s February 15 emergency declaration gives him access to billions of dollars to construct his wall on the Mexican border

The runoff in the Republican stronghold between Hyde-Smith and Espy came under national scrutiny when unsettling remarks by the senator

Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a replacement for retiring justice Anthony Kennedy was controversial from the start

Pollsters rate the Ohio race between Republican state senator Troy Balderson and Democratic lawyer Danny O’Connor as a toss-up

A defiant Trump sounded unfazed by the mounting pressure to alleviate the situation before it ruptures into a public relations disaster for his party

As meetings take place to prevent the US government from closing down, a House Republican leader has hinted that his party could offer a new plan.

US senate candidate Richard Mourdock has set himself back with his own supporters after making a controversial comment about abortion and rape.

Mitt Romney will call for a US change of course in the Middle East, saying President Barack Obama’s muddled strategy has failed to confront extremism.

Sounding a note of inclusion that belied tension in the campaign, Mitt Romney has told Hispanic voters he would be president for "100%" of Americans.

Mitt Romney is in the midst of a bruising, costly campaign to oust Barack but one expert has long said the Republican’s efforts are for naught.