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In both theme and target audience, Trump offered a powerful echo of Richard Nixon almost 50 years ago.

United States Vice President Joe Biden touched down in Auckland this evening for the next leg of a tour to reinforce the US presence in the Pacific.

COMMENT: Melania said the Trumps will bring kindness, love and compassion to the White House.

Rage? Rancor? Violence? That wasn't the situation when about 2000 Clevelanders joined hands at the Hope Memorial Bridge.

COMMENT: After the attack in Nice, Donald Trump was able to promote his idea of banning Muslims in the United States.

America's New Black Panther Party has upped tensions in the US race debate by vowing to openly carry guns at next week's Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Outspoken United States Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg's joke about moving to New Zealand if Donald Trump becomes president has embroiled her in controversy back home.

Who's opposed to the Trans Pacific Partnership ? Right wing US Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton has secured an unlikely but powerful wingwoman. And she's just gone to town on Republican rival Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's campaign has just $US1.3 million in the bank, tens of millions of dollars less than rival Hillary Clinton. Source: CNN

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

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.

She's making history - but not in the way Helen Clark has had to.

Hillary Clinton has been part of the United States' national consciousness for so long that it is easy to forget how far she has pushed the edges.

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

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

Republican Donald Trump slammed Hillary Clinton's speech on foreign policy that she delivered on Thursday. Trump called Clinton unpresidential and hard to watch. He also compared her to Sominex, claiming her speeches can put people to sleep.

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking may have a good grasp of the workings of the universe, but he says he can't understand Donald Trump's popularity. Hawking told ITV that he has no explanation for the likely GOP president nominee's success.

A former aide to Hilary Clinton has described Donald Trump as a 'vulgar, demented, pig demon' who only appeals to 'emasculated' middle-aged men.

One of the wildest ideas to hit the US Presidential campaign trail might become a reality sooner than you would think.

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

Today: Donald Trump reaches the number of delegates he needed to secure the party's presidential nomination for the White House and a 31-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Christchurch sex worker Renee Duckmanton. And US President Barack Obama meets with his G7 counterparts in Japan and pushes to finish negotiations on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership before the end of the year.

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump's gun policies are "not just way out there" but "dangerous" and would make America less safe.

Hispanics seem to care less than anyone in the US. Even though they make up 17 per cent of the population.