The Vatican today executed a speedy climb-down in its feud with Donald Trump – handing the Republican White House hopeful a major political victory. Pope Francis’s suggestion that Trump was ‘not Christian’ because of his views on immigration was not a personal attack on the candidate, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Friday. Lombardi told Vatican radio that... 

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary with a 10-percent lead over his closest competitor Senator Marco Rubio, according to the official results published by the Decision Desk website. Trump received 32.5 percent of the votes, while Rubio and Ted Cruz received 22.5 percent and 22.3 percent, respectively, Decision Desk reported on Saturday night. The South Carolina... 

Donald Trump says that if he were black, he would be angry at President Obama, the first black president. “People don’t know I’m a unifier,” Trump, the GOP front-runner, said at a rally in Myrtle Beach, S.C. “You know, Barack Obama, African-American. If I were African-American, I would be so angry at him.” Trump said black unemployment has gone up under Obama’s watch. “African-American... 

Presidential candidate and former Florida State Governor Jeb! Bush raised his hand at a South Carolina campaign event Tuesday after supporter and South Carolina Rep. Lindsey Graham polled the number of Democrats in the crowd. Jeb Bush had a face-palm moment Tuesday during a town hall event in South Carolina, raising his hand when his audience was asked to indicate if they were Democrats considering... 

President Barack Obama says he doesn’t think Donald Trump will succeed him in the Oval Office. Speaking with reporters at the ASEAN Leaders Summit in California, Obama said he doesn’t think Trump will win the general election come November. He said he has faith in the American people as they decide who is best to hold a “serious job”: “I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president.... 

Donald Trump is threatening to sue Ted Cruz over his presidential eligibility if Cruz doesn’t apologize for claiming Trump will appoint liberal Supreme Court judges if elected. “[Cruz] just comes out and BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, absolute lies,” Trump said during a press conference on Monday. “Now, he’ll apologize but I don’t want an apology after the election; I want the apology before, and... 

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has lambasted German Chancellor Angela Merkel for admitting hundreds of thousands of migrants, saying this could be “the end of Europe.” He also said America could have “very good relations” with Russia. The real estate billionaire was speaking to the French conservative magazine Valeurs Actuelles, saying the German chancellor had made “a... 

Donald Trump attacked the Bush family during the Republican presidential debate Saturday night, accusing the George W. Bush administration of lying to the public before going to war in Iraq. “Obviously the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake,” Trump said, launching into a fierce critique of rival Jeb Bush’s brother. “George Bush made a mistake,” the billionaire continued. “Obviously we... 

The neocons are furious with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. He refuses to call for military interventionism like all the other Republican candidates (with the exception of Rand Paul, who is now out of the race) and says Iraq and Libya are a mess because of American foreign policy. There is little difference between the parties on foreign policy. Hillary Clinton is as belligerent or more so than... 

US Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush is not yet dead as a viable candidate but he is in a coma and still running his 2016 campaign on a discredited 2004 platform, an international lawyer and political analyst says. Barry Grossman, who is based on the Indonesian island of Bali, made the remarks during an interview with Press TV while commenting on a an article titled “Jeb Bush is not dead”... 

The leftist media reacted with vitriol to Donald Trump’s crushing victory in New Hampshire – stooping to a new low by labeling his supporters racist, sexist zombies. Trump trounced nearest contender John Kasich, taking 34 per cent of the vote, with establishment favorite Marco Rubio lagging behind in fifth place. The Huffington Post exploded with resentment, running with the headline ‘NH GOES... 

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump confronted a Republican debate audience that repeatedly booed him during an exchange with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Trump shushed Jeb Bush during their exchange. His large gathering of supporters did not like that. Trump then took on the GOP debate audience. Business Insider reported: The audience loudly booed Trump, driving the back-and-forth off the rails. Trump... 

Donald Trump, the leading US Republican presidential candidate, has criticized President Barack Obama for apologizing to Muslims during his first visit to an American mosque. At a campaign rally in South Carolina on Friday, the Republican billionaire defended his controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,... 

The establishment finally struck back. But not in the way anyone might have imagined. The first Republican debate since voting began revealed a still-unsettled field with as many variables as quarrels among the candidates. Marco Rubio’s post-Iowa momentum likely stalled in a flurry of repetition while the three governors in the field made strong, final pitches for New Hampshire to revive their candidacies. By... 

Trump now has more than double the support of Rubio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s lead widened in New Hampshire just days before the primary, according to the latest CNN/WMUR tracking poll. Thirty-three percent of likely Republican primary voters said they support Trump, giving the billionaire a 17-point lead over his closest GOP rival. Trump gained 5 points from a similar tracking...