COMMENT: Trump's post-Orlando massacre tweets congratulating himself for having warned of the Islamist terror threat was just preposterous.

COMMENT: There are two certainties about next week's referendum in Britain on whether to leave the European Union.

COMMENT: Dear land of the free and home of the brave, gidday from New Zealand.

COMMENT: To maintain stability in South China Sea, outside interests must have the same goal.

Clinton's top State Department aide added a major Clinton Foundation donor to a national security board despite having no experience.

COMMENT: Hillary Clinton strode out with just a bit of upper-middle-aged swag.

COMMENT: When it comes to the general election, Hillary will have no need to labour her gender.

It had been billed as Bernie Sanders' big day in Washington. Making a last stand as a presidential candidate, he was set to meet Obama and other Democrats.

Hillary Clinton has never been a dazzling campaigner, and an FBI investigation into her email certainly didn't help. But the presumptive nominee had faith in her plan.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers and strategists fear that Trump's remarks about minorities and his unorthodox strategy have imperiled his campaign.

Pity the British. Here in NZ we have referendums on subjects such as the flag; they have them on the make-up of their nation and its place in the world.

COMMENT: Four months of primaries turn out Clinton versus Trump. America has 350 million people - is that the best it can do?

Donald Trump has taken his message of walls and deportations to the doorstep of America's busiest border crossing.

Barack Obama has chosen to break an unwritten rule by talking about Donald Trump while on foreign soil, writes Juliet Eilperin.

President Barack Obama taped the second part of an interview with CNN celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain before leaving the Vietnamese capital.

Hours before the relevant authorities had a clue what had caused EgyptAir Flight 804 to plunge into the Mediterranean, one man was in little doubt.

COMMENT: According to the person who may well be the next leader of the free world, the only things that would survive nuclear war are cockroaches and Helen Clark.

Melania Trump calls TV anchor's ogling of her "unbelievable", says the Clintons did not get her a wedding gift and recounts the time Jacko tried to make out with her.

COMMENT: Although these three races are captivating, the most important is for the presidency of the most powerful country on Earth, writes Alexander Gillespie.

Desperate anti-Trump Republicans seek a third-party challenger but keep hearing "no".

Michel Temer, is a career politician with a reputation as a skilled negotiator and smooth behind-the-scenes operator.

The constant spotlight fixed on Donald Trump for the last year would have overwhelmed any other candidate, particularly one so evasive. But not him.

Today - The man accused of killing his ex-partner Pakeeza Yusuf and her three-year-old daughter Juwairiyah Kalim has been found guilty. Te Puia is set to get $2.5m from the Tourism Growth Partnership fund for new facilities and Donald Trump’s butler of 30 years says he wants to kill Obama.

COMMENT: 20th century totalitarian ideologies of left and right were quasi-religious movements that replaced an absentee God with flesh and blood messiahs.

A majority of Brazil's Senate had indicated by last night that they will vote to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws

COMMENT: Trump may be a sinister clown, but he has unleashed a potent strain of resentment among millions of voters who feel cheated by political elites.

COMMENT: Showing leadership on this issue, and working with states in the region, will lead to stronger relationships across the board. That has to be in NZ's wider public interest, writes Michael Timmins..

Over 15 years, radio shock jock Howard Stern and Donald Trump periodically carried on like towel-snapping "bros" in a locker room, rating women's tops and bottoms.

In London tomorrow Police Minister Judith Collins will represent the Prime Minister at the London Anti-Corruption Summit.