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Republicans think they may have found a possible female foil to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton after businesswoman Carly Fiorina shone in the conservative party’s second presidential debate. Or was the more conciliatory, less combative tone a sign that Trump is...

In something out of a dystopian nightmare, the US House of Representatives has voted to stop federal funding to Planned Parenthood for a year.

“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation”, replied Carson, who is third in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings.

While Democrats who don’t have fond memories of the Reagan administration would quarrel with the right’s nostalgia over his presidency, current Republican candidates revere it, and nearly all have tried to attach themselves to his persona and memory.

Behind closed doors the Republicans are crossing fingers for a Clinton nomination.

For more than 30 minutes after that exchange, the usually vociferous Trump did not speak as other candidates discussed foreign policy and marijuana legalization. “They both went very well”.

A new CNN/ORC poll released over the weekend shows her surging from near the bottom of the pack to second place behind Donald Trump.

Around mid-August, as Trump’s poll numbers rose even after public statements that would have brought down mere mortal candidates, it dawned on the pundits that he was no summer infatuation.

Clinton tried joking about it earlier this summer. In a shift in tone, Clinton apologized this week for using the server, in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC News. “Like with a cloth or something?”

If Sanders were to emerge victorious in the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire, while certainly damaging to Clinton, it still wouldn’t spell disaster.

The email takes the so-far amiable Democratic race into more hostile territory more often seen within the Republican contest, though the Clinton campaign itself is yet to personally attack Mr Sanders directly.

This has put the Democratic National Committee in a bit of a bind.

In a touch of symbolism, Clinton was joined by Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat who endorsed her over Sanders and has mobilized his own state against heroin and prescription painkiller abuse.

Only 30 percent of poll respondents said they had a favorable opinion of her, down from 45 percent in April.

“If you look at the polls”, he said, “we do nearly as well … as Hillary Clinton … and that will only get better in the future”.