Bernie Sanders makes final pitch before N.J., Calif. primaries

With the primary season near its end, a defiant Bernie Sanders declared Saturday that the Democratic presidential process should not be decided by party leaders and elected officials, predicting a contested summer convention against rival Hillary Clinton. Speaking to reporters three days before the California primary, Sanders showed few signs of surrender, vowing to take his bid to the Philadelphia convention in July.

Concerns in GOP over Trump’s verbal attacks on federal judge

The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.

Trump’s personal attacks on judge spark GOP concerns

The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.

Trump Treads on the Constitution

Hillary Clinton had a bad week. A scathing report from the State Department's inspector general on Clinton's use of a private email server for government business would have ignited more of a media firestorm than it did had Donald Trump not done what he does best: sucked up all the oxygen with his outrageous behavior.

Obama weighs in on the campaign

President Barack Obama has overseen six of the 10 most polarized political years on record, defined as the delta between Republicans and Democrats on the question of presidential job approval. Mr. Obama wants to "explode onto the scene," a White House source told CNN Wednesday, adding he's "chomping at the bit to get out and 'get people fired up'" and "knows his power" is to energize the Democratic base.

Air Force jet crashes after flyover at Obama graduation speech

The pilot of a U.S. Air Force Thunderbird that crashed following a flyover met with President Barack Obama shortly safely ejecting safely into a Colorado field. News of the crash broke while Obama's motorcade was returning to Peterson Air Force Base for his flight back to Washington.

Hillary Clinton: Trump dangerous, unfit

US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tore into her likely election rival Donald Trump as never before Thursday, saying his foreign policy is dangerously incoherent and labeling him unfit for office. "He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility," Clinton said, cranking up the rhetoric on what is already a deeply acrimonious election.

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Kansas vowed on Wednesday to sue the Obama administration over a directive telling U.S. public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identities. The announcement by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt made the state the 13th to wade into an acrimonious debate about the rights of transgender Americans.

Call me maybe: TV networks divided on allowing candidates to phone it in

Donald Trump pioneered the lightning-round of TV interviews via phone - aka phoners - during his remarkable run to the Republican presidential nomination during the past 11 months. With phone in hand, Trump could be seemingly nowhere and everywhere all at once, "appearing" for interviews on several shows in quick succession.