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It’s an army of Iraqis who don’t like each other--Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites--advancing on the last urban stronghold of the Islamic State in Iraq. Nobody knows how long it will take or if they can hold it together.

Donald Trump says November’s voters have “the last chance to save the nation” from a conspiracy of bankers, the media, Hillary Clinton—and even the GOP.

Donald Trump is falling behind Hillary Clinton in large part because of declining support from women, who've been a major source of support for Republicans in the past. But they're divided when it comes to Trump, and we hear what that could mean for the Party.

A US ship fired cruise missiles into Yemen today — a nation torn by civil war and further devastated by Saudi Arabian air attacks carried out with US assistance. We hear about a humanitarian disaster and possible violations of international law.

There’s been another deadly bombing attack today on Aleppo, as Russia and the US agree to meet again they’ve been fruitless so far. As the humanitarian crisis gets worse than ever, what are the pros and cons of increased military action by the United States?

Republican defectors from Donald Trump have outraged his grassroots supporters. Trump says he can now fight his own party's leaders in his "own way." How will outright civil war in the influence next month's election and the politics of the future?

America's founding fathers accused each other of crimes, hypocrisy and sexual misbehavior, but times had changed — until last night at this year's second presidential debate in St. Louis.

Donald Trump is defying GOP tradition by proposing a new entitlement: paid leave for the mothers of newly born children. Clinton wants new fathers on the government payroll, too. Either plan would help the US catch up to the rest of the world.

Obamacare has made health insurance available for millions of people who didn't have it before. It's anything but perfect, and now Bill Clinton has made it an unavoidable issue in this year's presidential campaign — intentionally or otherwise. We compare the best laid plans of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

The most powerful military in the world is not big enough for Donald Trump, although Hillary Clinton's considered more likely to use it to intervene overseas. We continue our reality check on the presidential campaign