Ted Cruz

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz split victories in four nominating contests with front-runner Donald Trump on March 5, bolstering Cruz's argument that he represents the party's best chance to stop the brash New York billionaire. 

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations  on March 1 with a series of state-by-state victories, but their rivals vowed to keep on fighting.

On Super Tuesday, the 2016 campaign's biggest day of nominating contests, Trump, 69, and Clinton, 68, proved themselves the undisputed front-runners. 

Hillary Clinton narrowly won the Democratic caucuses in Iowa, outpacing a surprisingly strong challenge from Bernie Sanders to claim the first victory in the 2016 race for president.
     
The former secretary of state and first lady edged past the Vermont senator in a race the Iowa Democratic Party called the closest in its caucus history.
     

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz soundly defeated billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa's Republican nominating contest on Feb. 1, upending the party's presidential race and creating a three-way competition with establishment candidate Senator Marco Rubio. 

Donald Trump was the big winner across social media on the night of Jan. 28 during the seventh Republican presidential debate - despite the fact that he was not even there. 

Trump was the most searched-for candidate on Google during the debate, according to data supplied by the search engine, which co-sponsored the event with Fox News. 

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and top challenger Ted Cruz clashed sharply on Jan. 14 over the Texas senator's eligibility to run for the White House during a tense debate weeks before voters start to pick the party's nominee. 

American billionaire Donald Trump, the dominant  Republican no one can stop talking about heading into the 2016 presidential election, is leaving his rivals far behind in the polls.
 

Republican front-runner Donald Trump defended his provocative call for banning Muslims from the United States in Dec. 15 night's presidential debate as the candidates pushed their own plans for fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.
     

US President Barack Obama skewered allies and rivals alike in a Saturday-night comedy act spiced up with a healthy dash of self-deprecation.
 
Obama appeared before a ballroom packed with journalists, media types and celebrities for his penultimate White House Correspondents' dinner before finishing his second term next year.

Hillary Clinton is planning to announced her candidacy for the 2016 US presidential elections on Sunday, according to the New York Daily Mail, which quotes an anonymous source.

The former First Lady is possibly going to announce that she will be running for president through a video to be posted on social media.