Election 2016

Clearly, it’s been a long time since retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was a fifth-grader, and he forgot that they operate without filters. But the flagging Republican presidential candidate got a reminder during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when he asked private schoolers to identify the worst student.

“I regret it every day, but it was the right decision for my family and for me,” he told an NBC affiliate in Connecticut on Wednesday.

Donald Trump continues to insult his way to the GOP presidential nomination.

One-time Republican presidential front-runner Ben Carson on Wednesday brushed back reports that he is planning a major shakeup of his campaign staff, but he did not deny the possibility that changes to his operation could come soon, CNN reports.

Thanks to a question about bullying, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday was able to respond to indirectly to Republican rival Donald Trump's latest crude comments directed at her.

During a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Monday, Donald Trump made "astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton."

At what is likely to be his last news conference of the year before leaving for a family Christmas vacation, President Obama on Friday vowed to destroy ISIS, reports NBC News.

The DNC says Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign improperly accessed confidential voter information gathered by rival Hillary Clinton.

Trump endured repeated attacks from one-time presumed front-runner Jeb Bush and other competitors as they joined in opposition to his call to ban Muslims from the United States. The debate came in the aftermath of terror attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Paris.

It's clear who had the best year ever in politics. Here are a few unforgettable moments from the president's last full year in the White House.

New poll numbers that show Texas Sen. and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz ahead of Donald Trump in the important primary state of Iowa has sparked a war of words between the men on social and mainstream media.

Atlantic City, New Jersey pastor Regena Thomas, and a Democratic political operative, told NewsOne that she knew immediately that Trump played the ministers when she heard about the alleged endorsements.