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Republican Donald Trump scored a series of surprising wins in battleground states including Florida and Ohio on Tuesday, opening a path to the White House for the political outsider and rattling world markets counting on a win by Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump took a narrow lead over rival Hillary Clinton in the early results of the hotly- contested polls, US media projected on Tuesday, as they notched up wins in their respective Republican and Democratic bastions but were in a dead heat in battleg...

The last Republican President, George W. Bush, and the party's last nominee, Mitt Romney, both refused to support Trump.

Betting exchanges and online trading platforms on Tuesday said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a far higher probability of winning than Republican Donald Trump. While Trump made modest gains in probability to win on some online plat...

The latest WikiLeaks release shows CNN reaching out to Democratic officials to suggest questions for host Wolf Blitzer to ask Donald Trump in an interview, a practice the network defended Monday as "completely unremarkable" and sound journalism.

Top musicians from Bruce Springsteen to Beyonce to Madonna rallied behind Hillary Clinton as the United States prepared to elect a new president Tuesday, adding A-list star power to a massive get-out-the-vote operation.

The long-drawn and bitter battle between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump draws to a close in a few hours from now as Americans are currently voting for their next Commander-in-Chief.

Previous rounds of negotiations over the establishment of a Palestinian state have broken down and left outbursts of violence in their wake.

The special forces entered the Gogjali district, on the eastern edge of Mosul, on Tuesday, marking their first major foray into the city itself after more than two weeks of fighting in its rural outskirts.

The controversial real-estate tycoon was referring to Hillary and her husband and former US president Bill Clinton.

So far, about 7.4 million registered Democrats and about 6.4 million Republicans have done just that.

The FBI and US intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what US officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, peo...

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has sought to mobilise African-American voters in North Carolina state by stressing the potential dangers of a victory by Republican rival Donald Trump.

The firefight occurred as American soldiers were assisting Afghan troops to clear a Taliban position and disrupt the group's operations in Kunduz, US forces said in a separate statement.

Britain's High Court brought government plans for leaving the European Union screeching to a halt Thursday, ruling that the prime minister can't trigger the U.K.'s exit from the bloc without approval from Parliament.

US President Barack Obama implicitly criticized FBI director James Comey on Thursday, insisting US investigations should not operate based on "innuendo" or "incomplete information."