US election: Trump v Clinton

The race to succeed US President Barack Obama pits Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton against Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. Election day is November 8, 2016.

File photo of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during their presidential town hall debate at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri in October 2016. Photo: Reuters

Republicans close House probes into FBI handling of Trump, Clinton

Inquiries looked at agency’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and Donald Trump’s alleged ties with Russia. Lawmakers said they ‘revealed troubling facts’ that need more attention while reviewing thousands of documents and conducting interviews.

29 Dec 2018 - 9:55pm

‘Nude selfie’ among evidence seized by Robert Mueller, says indicted Russian firm with links to Vladimir Putin

‘Nude selfie’ among evidence seized by Mueller, Russian firm claims

29 Dec 2018 - 9:55pm 11

File photo of Michael Cohen outside court in Manhattan. Photo: Reuters

Cohen denies meeting Russians, despite phone data ‘from Prague’

28 Dec 2018 - 12:02pm

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on December 11, 2018. Photo: AP

Trump was at National Enquirer hush-money meeting, source says

14 Dec 2018 - 11:18am

US President Donald Trump answers questions from the press before leaving the White House on December 8, 2018. Photo: EPA

Trump: hush money was ‘simple private transaction’ and not illegal

10 Dec 2018 - 9:58pm 13

US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on December 7, 2018, following a day trip to Kansas City. Photo: AFP

Trump ‘directed illegal hush-money payments’, prosecutors claim

8 Dec 2018 - 10:53pm 5

Michael Cohen leaves federal court after pleading guilty to charges related to lying to Congress in New York on November 29, 2018. Photo: EPA

Mueller: Russian offered Trump campaign ‘political synergy’

8 Dec 2018 - 5:11pm 1

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton checking a device before leaving on a plane to Libya in October 2011. Photo: Reuters

US judge orders Clinton email handling evidence to be made public

7 Dec 2018 - 12:06pm

File photo of former FBI director James Comey. Photo: AP

Ex-FBI director Comey tries to quash subpoena over Clinton emails

30 Nov 2018 - 10:33pm

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16. US Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Photo: Reuters

Why Putin can’t be blamed for Trump becoming US president

4 Aug 2018 - 9:55pm 1

US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen addresses a convention of state secretaries of state. Photo: AP

US official: Russia using social media to divide Americans

15 Jul 2018 - 7:30pm 4

President Donald Trump made his policy intentions clear in his 2016 election campaign. It seems the left hates that he is implementing his stated policies. Photo: Bloomberg

If Trump is guilty of bias, so are his critics

11 Jul 2018 - 9:00pm 3

US President Donald Trump speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in April, 2018. Photo: Bloomberg

Trump says watchdog report ‘total disaster’ for FBI and Comey

15 Jun 2018 - 10:35pm

Cambridge Analytica and WikiLeaks are already subjects of investigation, but the revelations open up fresh questions about the precise nature of the organisations’ relationship

Cambridge Analytica director ‘visited Assange to discuss US election’

7 Jun 2018 - 3:52am

A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower has said firm had done “extensive” work in Indian politics in the past decade, but would not say if Prime Minister Narendra Modi was involved. Photo: Reuters

Big data, Asian politics: colonialism or empathy in a digital age?

12 Apr 2018 - 8:45am 11

The actor’s announcement was made on both his Facebook page and his Twitter account

Jim Carrey is deleting his Facebook page over election meddling

7 Feb 2018 - 11:32am 1

CIA Director Mike Pompeo has warned that Russia may meddle in the US midterm elections later this year. Photo: Reuters

Will Russia meddle with US midterm elections? CIA chief says ‘of course’

6 Jun 2018 - 10:47pm 5

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and her husband former President Bill Clinton, greet supporters after voting in Chappaqua, N.Y. The FBI is investigating allegations of corruption connected to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. That’s according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss it. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

The FBI is investigating donations to the Clinton Foundation - but will charges follow?

6 Jan 2018 - 5:31am

Robert Delaney says Donald Trump has consistently delivered policy gifts to his electoral base, fired up by anti-Muslim bigotry and white supremacy. And the closer the Russia investigation gets, the more generous Trump is going to be

Jerusalem move shows Donald Trump is neither stupid nor mad

12 Dec 2017 - 1:27am 49

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping arrive for a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 8. Photo: AP

Why Donald Trump looks at Xi Jinping with stars in his eyes

30 Oct 2017 - 7:18pm 3

Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Harvard University graduation ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 25. Photo: AP

What Facebook, Twitter and Trump tell us about a polarised world

2 Oct 2017 - 7:27pm 1

Twitter has revealed that nearly 2,000 ads were placed on the messaging service in 2016 by a Russian media group suspected of trying to interfere with the US presidential election. Photo: Reuters

Twitter reveals thousands of Russia-backed ads ahead of US election

29 Sep 2017 - 7:50pm

From ‘big shot’ Donald Trump’s gaudy wedding to hopes for a universal income scheme, the defeated Democratic presidential candidate reveals what was on her mind before, during and after her punishing White House campaign

Ten things we learned from Hillary Clinton’s book What Happened

15 Sep 2017 - 8:33am

Hillary Clinton signs copies of her new book. Photo: AFP

Amazon removes thousands of reviews of Clinton’s memoir

14 Sep 2017 - 8:58pm 3

Hillary Clinton attends a signing of her new book. Photo: Reuters

‘I would’ve won’: Clinton says Comey’s intervention was why she lost

13 Sep 2017 - 10:17pm 2

Hillary Clinton lost last year’s election to Donald Trump. Photo: AP

Clinton’s book revisits election loss, blaming friends and foe alike

9 Sep 2017 - 10:35pm 2

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, on July 7. Alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election is just one of the controversies to have rocked the Trump administration. Photo: EPA

Each time Trump tramples on ethics, he does Beijing a favour

4 Aug 2017 - 6:28pm 3

US first daughter Ivanka Trump takes her place among elected world leaders, including her father Donald Trump, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim (front row, left), at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance event during the G20 leaders’ summit in Hamburg, on July 8. Photo: Reuters

Will American democracy survive the nepotism of the Trump era?

19 Jul 2017 - 8:23pm 3

FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where he said he felt nauseous that he may have tipped the 2016 election to Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

FBI chief Comey ‘nauseous’ he may have tipped election to Trump

4 May 2017 - 12:57am 2

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