In a shock switch, Leroy Logan, a former police superintendent, said that he was quitting the Labour Party over the London Mayor's record.

Once last night's D.C. primary was wrapped up, DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said her party was 'ready to unify and take on both Trump and the Republican party.'

The Republican Party opened its national convention Monday, kicking off a four-day political jamboree that will anoint billionaire Donald Trump as its presidential nominee.

A free-swinging Donald Trump delivered a greatest-hits rally, riffing on impeachment, Iran, his impending China trade deal and the shrinking ranks of Democrats who want to replace him. 

Trump tweeted Friday about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Like it or not, Tlaib and Omar are fast becoming the face of the Democrat Party. Cortez (AOC) is fuming, not happy about this!'

Mattis, 68, submitted his letter of resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday, shocking Democrats and establishment Republicans who saw him as a steady hand in the cabinet.

Leaders differ on immigration deal details but both sides say they would like to see find ways to avoid future shutdowns with current government funding set to expires in less than three weeks.

President Donald Trump retweeted a conservative supporter Thursday who predicted the economy will be doing so well by summer Democrats will accuse him of 'hyping' the coronavirus outbreak.

Some Democratic senators might not return to Capitol Hill for work next week, after the Attending Physician of the United States Congress told House leadership it was too dangerous.

President Donald Trump drew a line in the sand with Andrew Cuomo and Nancy Pelosi when he called financial bailouts for states 'unfair' because they would go to ones with Democratic governors. 

Trump lashed out at his Democratic inquisitors in Congress, saying that if they have run out of fertile ground related to the Mueller report, they should look into Obama's post-presidency windfalls.

The former first lady, 55, said she and the former president will wait to see who wins the Democratic nomination before offering support.

A poll by Harvard Harris shows that Clinton would get 18percent of the vote if she entered the race today, while 19percent of Democrats would vote for Biden.

Hillary Clinton has avoided categorically stepping out of the race for the White House next year. During another media appearance in the UK, Clinton said she would have to make her mind up 'really quickly'.

An online survey by Harris Poll shows Hillary Clinton (left) slightly ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden (right). Clinton has refused to completely rule out a last-minute entry into the Democratic race.

After some candidates have campaigned for more than a year, Monday night's Iowa caucuses will finally kick off the Democrats' presidential primary race.

Voting officials admitted a string of failures in a panicked conference call which saw their app collapse, the backup call center not working, and local officials fail to record results properly.

The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor, 38, declared himself the sensational victor in Iowa despite there being no official results because an app crashed and results are delayed for hours.

Democratic presidential candidates deployed across New Hampshire Tuesday for campaign events, after a snafu in Iowa kept the state party from releasing results.

State party chairman Troy Price informed campaigns that he would release at least 50% of results at 5 p.m. EST, but he declined say when the party would release the full results - including who won.

Almost 24 hours after Iowans caucused Democrats unveiled two-thirds of the voting results giving Pete Buttigieg 26.9% of state delegates, just ahead of Bernie Sanders.

Harvey Weinsten bundled $1.4 million into Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential bid. The figure far outweighs sums he donated to President Barack Obama, Al Gore, and Senators Gillibrand.

Christopher Darden was on the prosecution team in OJ Simpson's 1995 murder trial and had a brief stint defending the man accused of killing Nipsey Hussle.

Trump's remarks came at a campaign rally on Friday night at the BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo, Mississippi, where he threw his support to the Republican in Tuesday's election for governor.

Donald Trump turned a mega-church revival meeting into a campaign rally on Friday, riffing at a Miami gathering of politicall friendly evangelicals on meandering topics including claims of Democratic Party anti-Semitism and the U.S. airstrike that killed a hated Iranian general.

Bush paid $2,920,698 in federal income tax two years ago. The Democratic National Committee's calculations show that his plan would have reduced his own tax bill by a whopping $841,643.

The former Florida governor was likely trying to encourage others to participate, but the gesture generated immediate comparisons to his older brother's 'Bushisms'

Trump said Saturday at the Israeli American Council's National Summit in Florida: 'You have to vote for me... You're not going to vote for the wealth tax... you'll be out of business in 15 minutes.'

Emily Thornberry has compared the Liberal Democrats to the Taliban as she suggested the party's policy of cancelling Brexit without a second referendum is undemocratic.

Chuck Schumer said Thursday Democrats are looking to pass a relief package as massive and far-reaching as those implemented during the Great Depression under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

President Trump blasted the latest comments by Democratic debate participants during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Japan.

While popular premier far-left Die Linke party easily retained the top spot with about 30 per cent, the Alternative for Germany scored at least 23 percent - more than doubling its result in 2014.

'Right now I'm not worried about the Russians. The biggest threat to America I see right now is Donald Trump's candidacy and what that will do to our country,' Corey Booker morning on Today.

Delegates shouted 'Bernie, Bernie' and booed every mention of Hillary Clinton in the opening session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Even the gavelling was a fiasco.

The former vice president, who refused to back Clinton during the recent Democratic primary, announced today he will vote for Clinton in the November race against Donald Trump.

Democrats managed to find some flags for the main stage at the Democratic convention after the lack of an old fashioned Stars and Stripes was noticeably absent from the stage.

Jerry Emmett, 102, was given the honor of reading out Arizona's votes for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

'I was elected as an independent. I’ll stay two years more as an independent,' Bernie Sanders said after losing the race for the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton.

The 31-year-old pop singer belted out her hits Roar and Rise to a packed audience including her 39-year-old hunky Lord of the Rings star at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday

Hillary Clinton made history last night standing next to her husband 8,778 days after fresh-faced Bill received the Democratic nomination at the party's 1992 convention in New York.

Trump himself has turned name-calling into a high art form, deploying derogatory nicknames for his opponents including 'Lyin' Ted' Cruz, 'Liddle Marco' Rubio and 'Crooked Hillary' Clinton.

The Bureau has been accused of preventing the DNC from reducing the number of emails and documents released by Wikileaks - prompting the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Trump tweeted Monday: 'The Democrats made up and pushed the Russian story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign. Big advantage in Electoral College & lost!'

Seventeen Democratic presidential contenders have qualified for the first primary debate, which take place over two nights in June and may see more candidates join the crowded stage.

Buttigieg (pictured), the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, initially said there could be 'personal or religious exemptions' allowing people to opt out of the injections.

O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who nearly won a U.S. Senate seat last year, has lost support from young voters and minorities, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos national poll.

The first ten of 20 Democratic presidential contenders who qualified for the party's first debate will take the stage in Miami on Wednesday evening for two hours of sparring moderated by NBC News' top talent.

Appearing to send the tweets while aboard Air Force One, Trump demanded to know why Democrats are not calling the likes of James Comey or John Clapper to testify.

The feeling was mutual. Candidates barely mentioned the sitting president. Democrats Jay Inslee and Amy Klobuchar launched the most direct attacks on him.

As Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow began moderating the second hour of the Democratic debate, audio of the first three moderators was clearly heard over the speakers in the hall.