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... 

US Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush (left), Ted Cruz (center) and Donald Trump participate in a CBS News GOP Debate on February 13, 2016 at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina. US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump continues to expose the Bush family’s role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in an effort to destroy Jeb Bush’s campaign, an American scholar... 

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... 

Don’t put too much credence is Trump’s loss in the Iowa caucus. It really isn’t significant. Why? Because the votes in Iowa were restricted to registered Republican voters and a lot of them are sticking to the party line. Trump’s support among Republicans is out on the periphery. The Democrat establishment knows a lot of registered Democrats favor Trump. According to The Upshot by Civis Analytics,... 

Donald Trump supporters think that Microsoft’s involvement in last night’s Iowa’s caucus helped Marco Rubio achieve a third place finish that some are predicting could turn the Florida Senator into the Republican frontrunner. For many, Rubio’s far better than expected performance was more noteworthy than Ted Cruz’ triumph, leading to suspicions about vote tampering. “Polling indicated... 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event January 23, 2016 in Pella, Iowa. US presidential candidate Donald Trump has hit a new high in the race for the Republican nomination, with 41 percent of GOP voters supporting the billionaire businessman from New York, according to a new national poll. Trump’s support among Republicans is now more than double that of his... 

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has lost ground to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) in the Republican presidential primary, criticized his colleague today for introducing an amendment to the 2013 immigration bill that would have barred citizenship for anyone who entered the country illegally — something Cruz described as a way to call the bluff of reformers. “Without question, Rubio and Cruz have been for amnesty,”... 

The issue of government surveillance was one of the key issues discussed at the Republican debate in Las Vegas. While Donald Trump wants to close parts of the internet, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were at odds as to how far the NSA should be allowed to go. Cruz was adamant he did the right thing in supporting a vote in the Senate to implement the USA Freedom Act, to end “the federal government’s... 

Turkey strives for a resurgence of the Ottoman Empire. Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio told Fox News earlier this week if push comes to shove the United States must side with Turkey in a confrontation with Russia. “They are a member of the NATO alliance,” Rubio said, “and if we were not to come to Turkey’s defense in any instance, it would undermine the NATO alliance and that... 

Jeb Bush’s numbers are in the single digits. Jeb Bush, who was the early frontrunner for the Republican nomination, has plummeted to the low single digits in a latest national poll. The Quinnipiac University survey released on Wednesday found Bush taking only 4 percent support, down from 10 percent in September. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Ben Carson continued to lead the crowded Republican field,... 

US Senator Marco Rubio as he speaks at the Foreign Policy Initiative breakfast in New York, August 14, 2015. Republican US presidential candidate Marco Rubio has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “gangster” and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “lunatic.” In an unusual attack on the Russian leader, Rubio said, “Russia is governed today by a gangster. He’s basically an organized... 

After a significant thaw between the US and Cuba, the states decided to restore their embassies. However, some believe that opening an embassy in Havana would avert one of the American’s important allies. Thus, the presidential candidate from the Republican party Ted Cruz claimed, that reopening is a “slap in the face” of Israel. Cruz called Obama’s announcement “unacceptable... 

The death of Argentina’s Federal Prosecutor Alberto Nisman who had accused the country’s President Cristina Kirchner of attempting to cover-up the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center back in 1994, stirred up a new dispute with the United States after Buenos Aires decided to carry out an independent investigation into the death and rejected the US Republicans’ demands to sever diplomatic... 

A majority of US senators submit to Israel’s demands to please the Israel lobby and do not represent the interests of the United States, an American scholar says. “It’s really embarrassing that so many American senators are willing to carry water for Israel,” said James Henry Fetzer, who is also an editor at Veterans Today and a retired professor in Madison, Wisconsin. “They ought to simply...