Sources: The New York Times
Former U.S. President Donald Trump files a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, alleging that her campaign tried to rig the 2016 United States presidential election by creating a false narrative that tied Trump's campaign to the Russian government. Trump is seeking compensatory and punitive damages worth US$24 million. 2022-03-25
Twitter bans all ads from Russian news agencies RT and Sputnik based on U.S. intelligence's conclusion that both attempted to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election on behalf of the Russian government. 2017-10-26
Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote over Donald Trump rises above 2 million. 2016-11-24
Donald Trump is forecast to win the United States presidential election as a result of victories of battleground states. 2016-11-8
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he plans to ban immigration from Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Uzbekistan and Yemen. 2016-08-5
Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton selects Senator Tim Kaine (Virginia) as her vice-presidential running mate. 2016-07-22
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida forcibly reject, as has the White House, candidate Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. military be withdrawn from Japan and South Korea with nuclear weapons replacing them. A small minority in South Korea, such as the think tank Sejong Institute, agree with Trump on this issue, but this is not mainstream policy. 2016-03-31
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is seriously considering a possible independent presidential run if Donald Trump or Texas Senator Ted Cruz face Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the general election. 2016-01-23
Rick Santorum announces he will be seeking the nomination of the Republican Party in the 2016 United States presidential election. 2015-05-27