On his second day in Cuba, throngs of Cubans lined the rainy streets of Havana as President Obama’s motorcade traveled past, shouting his name, throwing kisses, cheering and chanting “USA! USA!” This the first time in 90 years that a sitting American president has visited the island country. Obama met with Raul Castro on Monday to have discussions […]
After winning primaries in the northeast and southeast, billionaire Donald Trump looks poised to get a win in the western part of the United States in Tuesday’s Nevada caucus. The latest polls show Trump leading his Republican challengers with about 40 percent support, while Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz remained locked in another tight […]
As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination heats up between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the close contest is drawing attention to the nomination process and the people called “superdelegates” who could have enormous influence over its outcome. The two major American political parties begin the process of selecting […]
WASHINGTON—The pace of the 2016 presidential election campaign is quickening as White House contenders from both major political parties hone their closing arguments less than a month before the first votes are cast in Iowa. President Barack Obama injected a new issue into the campaign Tuesday with new executive actions aimed at tightening criminal background […]