COMMENT: With the first Presidential Debate done for 2016, here's some independent advice for the major party candidates ahead of round two.

Donald Trump has shamed an ex-Miss Universe who he previously called "Miss Piggy" and encouraged Americans to check out what he called her "sex tape".

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump looked to land damaging blows in the battle to become US president yesterday.

What exactly could Trump say on this subject that would not be worse for him than for Hillary Clinton?

COMMENT: As the US decides possibly to elect the worst human being, it felt pertinant to consider the worst fictional US presidents offered by Hollywood.

As Trump and his surrogates taunt her, Clinton finds herself in a familiar place.

During the presidential debate Donald Trump filled the role of loudmouth class clown and decided to wing it. Was that the best idea?

According to Rosie O'Donnell's Twitter feed, the comedian spent Tuesday night "not watching" the debates.

Beer commercials, bad jokes and multimillion-dollar deals: TV ads turned the presidential debate into a new Super Bowl.

A round-up of 22 suspect and interesting claims in the first debate clash between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump - what checks out and what doesn't.

It was a question so big and bad that the Republic candidate was unable to recover from it.

Donald Trump supporters are up in arms at what they claim was favourable treatment of Hillary Clinton by the NBC anchor Lester Holt.

COMMENT: The first US presidential debate between reality-television star and wealthy builder Trump and former Secretary of State Clinton was mind-blowing.

If Hillary Clinton wins the US presidential election in six weeks' time, a great deal of the credit could go to her demeanour in last night's first debate.

Hillary Clinton won the debate inasmuch as she represented something that resembled common sense, writes Steve Braunias.

Today’s televised debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be like no other in the history of American politics. While no previous candidate has the temperament or unpredictability of Trump, here’s a look back at some of the other more memorable presidential debates.

The United States is very much at the centre of our political attention at the moment. For us we're watching the rise and fall of

COMMENT: Politics throws up some strange bedfellows and that's certainly the case with Helen Clark and John Key.

Donald Trump's threat to seat a woman who had an affair with Bill Clinton at tomorrow's debate could raise his own history of infidelity.

For a moment there, it seemed that Hillary Clinton had lost the Kim Kardashian vote.

There's a new last minute complication for Clinton as she prepares to face Trump.

Helen Clark faces her fifth Security Council ballot Tuesday to choose the next UN Secretary General , amid rumours that another contender is set to join the contest.

Professor Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984, is pretty sure who will win on Nov. 8.

Prime Minister John Key reflects on his big week at the United Nations.

A stunned Hillary Clinton is asked, "What happens if you become pregnant?" during wayward interview.

...he's neck and neck in polling with Hillary Clinton, so it's about time to ask whether he would really be so face-meltingly terrible...

Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, slammed the United States at the special Security Council meeting.

Many New Zealanders might wonder why we bother with the UN, until they hear Key lament the council's performance on Syria in his speech.