Rev Al Sharpton warns of an epidemic of ‘amnesia’ over the struggles of the civil rights generation

In another turbulent week for the Republican Party, including controversy over a ‘deeply troubling’ ad in Ohio, Donald Trump went to a pocket of Iowa and felt the love

Democrat Josh Turek is mounting an unexpected challenge in Iowa, a traditional Republican bastion

Polls suggest Democrat Adam Hamilton is on the cusp of a sensational Senate win amid Republican disillusionment with Trump

In Flint, birthplace of General Motors, voters wrestling with healthcare costs and economic decline may determine control of the US Senate

The Democratic candidate, derided by Donald Trump, belongs to none of the traditional American political archetypes and is aiming to win in a state where Republicans have dominated for decades

Protests greet arrival of Donald Trump for an Ohio event that is greatly reduced in scale and intensity from mega-rallies two years ago

Georgia senator verbally pummeled his ‘bigot’ Republican rival in recent debate and has become a chief thorn in Trump’s side ahead of midterms

I drove across Ohio on Route 40, one of the many states in which Republican strategists are responding to distant sirens

US president’s essential message to Maga voters on campaign tour has been ‘pretend I am on the ballot’

Case suggests college years are more challenging and, in some cases, troubling than ever

Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for murder and now lies in hospital after two lethal doses failed to kill her

Fourteen members of US Congress say failing to act decisively risks ‘reopening one of the most painful chapters in North’s history’

The transformation of Steve Hilton, former strategy guru for David Cameron, into a renegade Republican candidate is one wacky story

Steakhouses such as Sparks, outside which Paul Castellano was shot dead in 1985, are untouched by food fads or the 21st century