Former President Donald Trump ran away with Michigan’s Republican primary Tuesday night‚ cruising past rival Nikki Haley to secure his sixth consecutive win in a GOP contest. With about two-thirds of the expected vote counted as of early Wednesday‚ the 77-year-old Trump had 68.1% support compared to 26.7% for Haley. The former president has now defeated Haley by double-digits in five states and the US Virgin Islands. Trump thanked his supporters attending a Michigan...

Joe Biden's campaign and top Democratic officials vowed to double down on efforts to win back former supporters after being hit by a much stronger-than-anticipated protest vote in the Michigan primary over the president's support of Israel. About 13.2% of Michigan Democrats cast a ballot for "uncommitted" in the nominating contest‚ following a weeks-long push by activists‚ an Edison Research tally showed after 9 a.m. (1400 GMT) on Wednesday. With about 85% of all votes counted‚ the...

Former President Donald Trump easily won Tuesday’s Michigan primary‚ continuing his march toward the Republican Party nomination. But his opponent‚ Nikki Haley‚ continued to score a significant enough percentage of the vote so as to raise questions about the former president’s standing in the general election. Trump appeared on path to win roughly 70 percent in the state’s GOP primary. That will increase the pressure on Haley to exit the race‚ though the former U.N. ambassador has said...

With the first of two government-funding deadlines coming up this Friday‚ a partial government shutdown is looking more and more possible. The challenge facing House Speaker Mike Johnson is the same as the one that plagued his predecessor‚ Kevin McCarthy. Republicans control only one chamber of Congress‚ by a razor-thin margin‚ meaning that if Johnson cannot unite his caucus around a bill to fund the government‚ he will have to rely on Democrats. Doing so could put his leadership at...