Dark times for the Republican party.
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Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States. Wanna bet?
Beware Trojan horses.
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Trump’s bellicose rhetoric belies his own family’s troubled migrant past.
Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz speaking over each other at the debate.
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The 10th Republican debate offered a chance for establishment candidates to slow Donald Trump’s momentum just five days before Super Tuesday.
Donald Trump with his sons Donald Jr and Eric after winning the Nevada caucus.
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Nevada gave Trump his third victory and a widening lead over his GOP rivals. It’s not his conservative values winning votes.
Despertando.
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All the anti-immigrant rabble-rousing appears to be backfiring.
A Trump supporter celebrates in South Carolina.
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Five takeaways from Trump’s South Carolina win.
Rubio (second from left) waves along with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (second from right), U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (far left) and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (far right).
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South Carolina is a red state. The GOP candidates know that a win here can lead to the party nomination.
Neither here nor there.
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When Pope Francis issued his unexpected on the Republican frontrunner, he did little to make the choice facing American Catholics any easier.
A Harper’s Weekly cartoon of German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg, Germany, 1874.
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Anti-migrant rhetoric is running high in the US – but its star proponent would do well to think about his German roots.
Ted Cruz speaks at a rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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Is ‘chutzpah’ actually – as Ted Cruz claimed – a New York word? And what’s with the candidate’s insistence on distancing himself from New York City?
Rod Webber before a Marco Rubio rally in Exeter, New Hampshire.
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NH’s election laws allow people to vote in the primaries even if they are not registered with one of the parties. How pivotal are these unenrolled voters? We look beyond the exit polls for answers.
Obama delivers remarks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque on February 3, 2016.
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The president gave an encouraging and inclusive speech to American Muslims, but he may have picked up the cause too late.
Bernie Sanders celebrates his victory in New Hampshire.
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Ohio Governor John Kasich takes second place in the GOP race while Senator Marco Rubio drops to fifth.
Can’t touch this.
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With the results in, Trump stands proudly on top of what looks like a five-way car crash. What now?
Trump’s performances never fail to make breaking news, securing him the public’s attention.
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Donald Trump has applied the lessons of winning a TV audience to politics. Much as we might deplore the theatre of entertaining voters, we can’t wish it away.
Let the horse race begin.
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America’s way of choosing its president is marred by murky voting methods, a warped calendar, and too much hype.
Marco Rubio in Exeter, New Hampshire.
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For 100 years, retail politics has ruled the New Hampshire primary. We may be seeing a new dynamic emerge in 2016.
Hillary Clinton takes a selfie with supporters in front of a US Secret Service agent.
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Our global newsroom responds to the first results in the US presidential election. We hear from scholars in the UK, US, Australia and France.
These are my Trump-tinted spectacles.
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When it comes to Iowa, separating reality from rhetoric is all but impossible.
A mosquito.
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The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all. The disease has spread “explosively” throughout the Americas, with 32…