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Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at the Women's National Republican Club in New York on March 23, 2016.

Wisconsin seen as key state for Ted Cruz in stop-Trump movement

May 14, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

In kicking off his campaign for Wisconsin's April 5 presidential primary, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas headed Wednesday to conservative Waukesha County for a talk with a conservative radio host....

John Kasich, Ohio governor, announced July 21, 2015, that he will seek the Republican nomination for president.

Nevada is Trump’s to lose, but Cruz and Rubio hope to spring a surprise

August 19, 2019 at 12:22 a.m.

The Republican presidential caucuses here Tuesday night are Donald Trump's to lose. He has led every recent public poll by double digits. Enormous crowds pack his rallies. And his nationalist...

A contempt for Wall Street binds Republicans and Democrats, who otherwise agree upon little else.

Anger at Wall Street unites Democrats and Republicans

June 11, 2018 at 6:38 a.m.

At the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition convention, the name "Barack Obama" drew immediate grimaces and groans. Only two other words came close to matching that reaction. Wall Street. "If...

Lindsey Graham gestures during the Republican presidential debate at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas on Dec. 15, 2015.

Lindsey Graham ends bid for GOP presidential nomination

June 25, 2019 at 4:39 a.m.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., ended his long-shot presidential bid Monday, telling supporters in a web video that he succeeded in changing the conversation about how to fight the Islamic State....

In a Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter answers questions during a news conference at a Habitat for Humanity building site, in Memphis, Tenn.

Jimmy Carter says latest brain scan shows no cancer

August 21, 2019 at 6:04 p.m.

Former president Jimmy Carter began his 10 a.m. Sunday school classes as he so often does: with a short update on his health. He stood before 300-some people - a...

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a Democratic debate Nov. 14, 1015, in the Sheslow Auditorium of Drake University.

Hillary Clinton’s debate performance leaves trail of fodder for political adversaries

May 14, 2019 at 5:39 a.m.

It was not a tricky question, but Hillary Rodham Clinton found a way to make it so. Toward the end of the latest Democratic presidential debate over the weekend, she...

Republican presidential candidates appear during the CNBC Republican presidential debate at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 28, 2015.

GOP contenders demand greater control over crucial debates

May 14, 2019 at 5:35 a.m.

Several Republican presidential campaigns began mapping out new demands on Sunday for greater control over the format and content of primary debates, which have attracted big audiences and become strategically...

Defiant clerk in gay marriage case emerges from jail to cheers

August 21, 2019 at 5:51 p.m.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis entered the Carter County Detention Center under cover of night five days ago, in contempt over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples....

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