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Melania Trump appears to have little interest in being first lady. But she’s in good company - many ‘weren’t very keen’ on coming to the White House

The president didn’t name the Republican frontrunner in his State of the Union, but Trump and his politics were front and centre on Tuesday

The gloves came off at the last Republican debate — and things finally got interesting

Not content with demonising Mexicans and Muslims, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s latest target is the Black Lives Matter movement

Nothing about this should work. It should be political suicide — but he has proved repeatedly that typical rules don’t apply to him

The schema — rapid fire and lacking real-time context without a second screen — allows Trump to rehash falsehoods with few consequences

It seems women don’t get heard until their stories are corroborated by men, or so many of them speak out that the world has to sit up and take notice

Americans want Daesh eliminated, but they don’t want to do much about it. This makes life good for the Florida senator who criticises Democrats while offering vague foreign policy plans

The Republican presidential hopeful promises to stick to the GOP line — as long as it does what he wants

The senator from Vermont managed to draw clear distinctions with the Democratic front-runner. It still might not be enough when the voting starts

Nobody thought the Vermont senator was a viable candidate when he got in the race. Now, not even Clinton can afford to believe conventional wisdom

At Thursday’s Democratic debate, the former secretary of state didn’t have a lot of room to err, and she didn’t. Instead, it was her rival who faltered