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Fed up with all the petty arguments and overused talking points of the 2016 election cycle? Marge Simpson feels your pain. The drama is literally giving her nightmares.

Jason Dalton, the man police suspect fatally shot six people in three separate but related shootings in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday, was an Uber driver that allegedly took fares during the rampage, NBC affiliate WOOD-TV 8 reports.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been threatening to sue opponent Ted Cruz over his eligibility to hold the nation's top office. Now, it seems, Trump has another target: Marco Rubio.

Since former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) dropped out of the presidential race Saturday night, his robust donor base is already working its way to fellow Floridian Marco Rubio. About 20 Bush donors have reportedly already called Florida lobbyist Brian Ballard, a Rubio supporter who switched over from Bush in 2015.

Speaking to a crowd at St. Peter's Square on Sunday, Pope Francis called for a global ban on the death penalty, Reuters reports.

Coming off of a big win in Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary, frontrunner Donald Trump said he's got the nomination locked up. He's already looking ahead to the general election, he said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.

Jeb! is no more.

Of course, Jeb Bush the man lingers on, even after he put his massively disappointing and weirdly punctuated presidential campaign out of its misery after finishing sixth in Iowa, fourth in New Hampshire, and fourth in South Carolina. But after his shellacking in the 2016 race, few will care about Jeb — or the Bushes. Politically, he is a spent force. Through his fruitlessly awkward and then vindictively prideful thrashing, his campaign, and the Right to Rise spending operation associated with it... Читать дальше...

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Donald Trump was the clear winner of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, leading with roughly 33 percent. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) were in a near-tie for second, with each candidate between 22 and 23 percent. The big win clearly distinguishes Trump, who finished a close second in Iowa and won convincingly in New Hampshire, as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.

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Hillary Clinton won the Nevada Democratic caucuses on Saturday. Читать дальше...

After a late surge from Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton managed to eke out a win in Nevada on Saturday. Clinton played the expectations game brilliantly, casting her near-humiliation as just one more step closer to an inevitable victory. But there's only so much finessing even a Clinton can do. Despite her projection of limitless confidence, her victory speech in Nevada laid bare the limits of her appeal to Sanders' supporters.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) will reportedly endorse Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for president, two sources told The Huffington Post.

A gunman in western Michigan opened fire in three places late Saturday, killing six people and severely injuring two, ABC News reports.

Now that Donald Trump has won South Carolina, with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz essentially tied for second, just about every media source you'll encounter will say that the Republican race for the presidency is down to those three and those three only. That judgment isn't necessarily unreasonable, but it will be final. Even before all the votes were counted, Jeb Bush suspended his campaign, realizing that he could try to keep campaigning, but the only kind of attention he'd be getting is what has... Читать дальше...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that he has reached a "provisional agreement" with his Russian counterpart on the terms of a cease-fire in Syria, The Associated Press reports.

Donald Trump won by double digits in New Hampshire. On Saturday, he won by double digits in South Carolina. It was not the Roman triumph that was expected a week before the Palmetto State vote, but it was a solid victory. No GOP candidate who won both New Hampshire and South Carolina has subsequently lost the nomination.

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With a sigh, Johnny Perez rises from his plastic chair, unfolds his lanky frame, and extends his wingspan until the tips of his middle fingers graze the walls. "It was from here to here," he says. "I know because I used to do this all the time." Until recently, these measurements — 10 feet by 6 feet — fit his entire life.

With nearly all the votes counted, Donald Trump is the clear winner of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, leading with roughly 33 percent. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) remained in a near-tie for second, with each candidate between 22 and 23 percent. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the race after getting a disappointing 8 percent. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson were right on Bush's heels, with between 7 and 8 percent each. Читать дальше...

Hillary Clinton has won the Nevada Democratic caucuses, several media outlets are projecting.

Marco Rubio announced Saturday night in South Carolina that the Republicans are now in a three-person race.

Donald Trump claimed his second straight big victory in the 2016 Republican presidential race Saturday night, this time in the South Carolina primary. "I think we're going to do very, very well," Trump said in his victory speech, following brief remarks from wife Melania Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump. "As people drop out, I'm going to get a lot of those votes."

As soon as Donald Trump was announced the winner of Saturday's South Carolina Republican presidential primary, political pundits tried to wrap their heads around how it happened.

Jeb Bush has finally put his presidential campaign out of its misery.

But it wasn't so long ago that Jeb was widely seen as the candidate to beat in the Republican presidential primary. Pundits predicted that Bush was almost as inevitable a nominee as Hillary Clinton was. Commentators cast Bush as the Republican Party's best chance at leaving Clinton shaking in her boots. Between his "rock star name" and the gusher of money he had flowing into his campaign before even announcing, Bush was... Читать дальше...

After a massively disappointing presidential run, Jeb Bush announced Saturday night in South Carolina that he is suspending his campaign. Bush said he was proud of his campaign and the fact that he "stood his ground," and hoped that conservatives would use the ideas he shared on the trail as blueprints for the future.