If you ever wondered how Donald Trump managed to get as far as he did in the race to the White House, you can be assured you're not alone.

I've studied tax filings for decades. What I found most stunning about Trump's 1995 taxes isn't what everybody's talking about, writes Allan Sloan.

Donald Trump just had a week to forget, capped off by a bombshell report about his tax returns.

If Trump has as much acumen as he claims, how is it possible he lost over $900m during an economic upturn? Here's what regular voters think.

Alec Baldwin has made a mockery of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live when he parodied the brash billionaire's debate with Hillary Clinton.

In the age of Donald Trump and online conspiracy theories, how one voter came to believe in what's being said in the dark corners of the Internet.

Big mouth strikes again. Donald Trump's latest attack on presidential rival Hillary Clinton included mocking her recent collapse due to ill health.

Theresa May will announce she will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act.

Trump plunged into a feud with Alicia Machado, a Miss Universe winner he mocked and humiliated for her weight gain two decades ago.

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

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

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.

COMMENT: The biggest surprise from the first American President debate is that those who watched it are divided on who actually won the day.

While a photo of the pair appears to show them in deep, intelligent conversation, social media had other ideas as to what they were talking about.

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.

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.

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

As Clinton prepared to face the most unconventional candidate of her career, her aides engaged in a deep study of Trump's personality to glean insights.

A record audience is expected to tune in tomorrow, amid great uncertainty about what they'll see.

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.