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February 2015: My time in America was coming to an end; I was sure of it. My one-year visa would soon expire, my fellowship would soon end, and I would [...]

* Donald Trump will meet Tuesday with Mitt Romney, a candidate for secretary of State who is distrusted and almost universally opposed by the president-elect's inner circle. The possibility of [...]

* Donald Trump has amassed the biggest small-donor fundraising army in the history of the Republican Party. No matter what happens on Election Day, the GOP will inherit this network [...]

* Campaign operatives who competed against Donald Trump in the Republican primaries are bristling at suggestions they failed to fully investigate the businessman during his march to the nomination. Trump's [...]

* A victorious Donald Trump coming out of the Republican National Convention would have a hard time raising the money he needs to beat the Democratic presidential nominee in November. [...]

* Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have become their parties' presidential front-runners with diametrically opposed campaign organizations. Trump has been getting by with an unconventional operation and very little investment [...]

* The biggest super-PAC supporting Hillary Clinton is sitting on its cash and preparing to launch the largest general election spending effort by an outside group in Democratic Party history. [...]

* More than half of Americans are dissatisfied or embarrassed when they look at the 2016 presidential candidates, a new poll shows. The survey of national sentiment, run by the [...]

* Donald Trump swept to victories in Mississippi and Michigan on Tuesday, tightening his grip on the GOP presidential nomination despite an unprecedented wave of attacks from his rivals. Trump [...]

* A snowstorm expected to blow through Tuesday's voting in New Hampshire threatens to dampen turnout and scramble an already turbulent presidential contest. Granite State TV station WMUR reported the [...]

* On the eve of Monday's Iowa caucuses, campaigns and super-PACs are due to make an important set of financial disclosures. The reports will at last show how much money [...]

* Republican donors are quietly coming around to the idea that Donald Trump could be their party's nominee for president. While many major Republican donors still cannot abide the idea [...]

* Major GOP donors and fundraisers are wondering whether they're wasting their money on super-PACS. They say they're not ready to abandon the super-PACs, but they're starting to look for [...]

* California's top Senate candidate Kamala Harris has been using her campaign account| to fund stays in upscale hotels and first-class airfares during her nearly five-year tenure as state attorney [...]

* Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina disagree on just about everything, but some donors are nonetheless supporting both presidential candidates. In interviews over the past several weeks, a number of [...]

* Hillary Clinton's well-financed ally David Brock has a team that claims to be coordinating with moles inside the corporate and political empire of the billionaire brothers Charles and David [...]

* The Koch brothers' powerful donor network spent $129 million in 2014, more than five times what in did in the previous, non-election year. A new IRS filing released on [...]

* The Koch brothers are on a publicity tour to change their image. Long caricatured by Democrats as shadowy billionaires who buy Republican politicians so they can grow their profits [...]

* Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer plans to invest at least as aggressively in the 2016 presidential election as he did last year, when he became the biggest individual donor on [...]

* The most popular presidential candidates among the Koch brothers' conservative donor network are Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who each received contributions from more than 12 percent of 190 [...]

* A number of the most generous donors from the 2012 presidential campaign are sitting on their checkbooks, unsure of which candidate to support after a summer that scorched establishment [...]

* Destroy The Donald. That threat has been coming for months from the Club for Growth, but on Tuesday the influential free-enterprise advocacy group finally put its money where its [...]

* Ben Carson's rise to second place in national polls has been fueled by a small-dollar grassroots fundraising operation unrivaled in Republican politics. But the retired neurosurgeon turned novice politician [...]

* Ben Carson's presidential campaign says it raised $3.5 million in grassroots donations in just the first week of September, more than half of what it says it raised for [...]

* Rick Perry's super-PACs register voters in Iowa and take on the lion's share of campaign activities since Perry's official campaign began running out of cash a few weeks ago. [...]

* President-elect Donald Trump appears likely to have avoided a confirmation battle over Homeland Security secretary by picking a retired fourstar general instead of a conservative immigration hawk. By choosing [...]

* Donald Trump and Mike Pence will take a victory lap in Indianapolis on Thursday to tout what they are presenting as a successful negotiation with Carrier to keep nearly [...]

* By picking Georgia Rep. Tom Price as his point man on healthcare, Donald Trump calmed conservatives who have been concerned about the president-elect's commitment to overturning ObamaCare. Trump's announcement [...]

* Former Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon is poised to play a significant role in foreign policy and national security in the Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump named the controversial [...]

* Donald Trump faces enormous challenges uniting a bitterly divided country in the wake of the nastiest presidential election many can remember. Trump must deal both with Democrats who view [...]

* The FBI is investigating an alleged illegal donation scheme involving a wealthy Saudi family that supports Democratic Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy. The Hill has found no evidence that [...]

* Federal government employees are opening their wallets to help Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump on Nov. 8. Of the roughly $2 million that federal workers from 14 agencies spent [...]

* Steve Bannon, the chairman of the right-wing news outlet Breitbart who became CEO of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, gave explicit orders to his staff to destroy Speaker Paul Ryan [...]

* Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, Donald Trump's presidential campaign released its latest financial report, revealing an operation rushing to professionalize as Election Day nears. Trump lags well behind Democratic [...]

* Nate Silver, the ESPN journalist behind the FiveThirtyEight website, gave a presentation on the 2016 battleground map to a group of powerful Republican donors in Manhattan last week. Silver [...]

* Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) says he has not talked to Donald Trump about serving in a potential Trump administration despite growing speculation about an alliance between the two [...]

* Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the front-runners for each party's presidential nomination, but while Clinton is grinding through the old-fashioned way--paying a large ground staff, buying television and [...]

* Marco Rubio's presidential campaign is on life support after a terrible night in Tuesday's primaries. His home state of Florida's winner-take-all contest on March 15 is shaping up as [...]

* Florida is set to become a lastgasp state for Republican donors desperate to stop Donald Trump, with major anti-Trump groups coordinating their strategies and pouring millions into a frantic [...]

* INDIAN WELLS, Calif.--Donald Trump is so fiercely opposed by the Koch brothers' network that some donors believe the powerful group will intervene to stop him if it looks as [...]

* Republicans running for president are redirecting focus to national security after Friday's terror attacks in Paris, with establishment figures seizing on the incident to separate themselves from the inexperienced [...]

* Clinton World is stepping up its attacks on Sen. Marco Rubio, signaling the Democratic presidential front-runner sees the rising Florida Republican as a significant threat. Priorities USA, a super-PAC [...]

* GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush's biggest donors were taken through a 45-slide PowerPoint presentation on Monday designed to show them that the campaign is not in such a dire [...]

* Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spent his summer rejecting attempts by journalists to goad him into a fight with Hillary Clinton, saying he liked and respected his Democratic rival and [...]

* Hillary Clinton's pledge to curb the influence of billionaires on American politics is dividing the donor community, with support splitting sharply down party lines. Major Clinton donors Jeffrey Katzenberg [...]