A top aide to President Barack Obama who also worked on the 9/11 Commission report, said the the Saudi government did not overtly support al Qaeda leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks, but that individuals in the country did. Ben Rhodes would...

Rescue crews scrambled through rubble Saturday morning in a desperate search for survivors of a magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck Japan's Kyushu Island, the same region rattled by a 6.2 quake two days earlier. The death toll in the Kyushu earthquake..

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off in CNN's Democratic presidential debate in Brooklyn Thursday night as they spar ahead of a critical contest in New York -- a state where both candidates have deep roots. The April 19 primary here will...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday accused Donald Trump supporters of "acting like union boss thugs" in pursuit of the Republican Party nomination, saying during CNN's town hall that they are intimidating potential Republican National Convention delegates.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sought Wednesday to rebuff complaints about the GOP nominating process levied by front-runner Donald Trump. "It's clearly not (rigged)," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room." "Look,...

Paul Ryan: 'Count me out'. House speaker tries to end talk he'll enter presidential race. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday tried to end speculation that he may be a late entrant into the Republican presidential race. "Let me be clear: I do...

A resounding win in Colorado's GOP contest this weekend provided fresh evidence that Donald Trump's campaign is still scrambling to catch up in the state-by-state delegate hunt. But the Trump campaign's threat that they might challenge the Colorado...

About 300 workers and contractors have been released days after ISIS-linked militants took over a cement factory in Syria, the ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency reported Friday. The report has not been officially corroborated. The militants had...

Bill Clinton traded verbal shots in a feisty 15-minute exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia on Thursday, as he defended his wife's presidential bid. The protesters shouted that "black youth are not super predators," taking...

The long and winding road to the Republican nomination. Following his loss in the Wisconsin primary, Donald Trump is entering the final stretch of the 2016 Republican primary contest facing an uphill battle to capture the 1,237 delegates required...