Hanna Kozlowska

The streak is broken.

A rising star within the Democratic ranks, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, cut herself off from the party’s establishment by resigning from her post as vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee and endorsing Bernie Sanders for president.

Whether it’s the advent or demise of the GOP, Republicans have to start realizing that Donald Trump will likely become their nominee for president.

Donald Trump is not very popular in Britain—in fact, so many people signed a petition to ban him from coming to the UK last year that it triggered a parliamentary debate on the matter. But British gamblers have been closely watching the Republican presidential candidate as he pulls ahead of his rivals in primary voting, and betting on him to win the party’s nomination. The odds that the blustery billionaire could go on to become president have also shortened considerably.

Gemma Soldati, a 25-year-old who works in marketing and is a comedian, posted an open letter to her parents on Facebook. “Dear Mother & Father, I’ve studied at your school for 25 years,” she starts.

US president Barack Obama announced his plan to finally shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and transfer its prisoners stateside. But his attempt to move forward on his 2008 campaign promise in the final year of his presidency is not expected to make any headway in Congress, where Republicans have opposed the plan for years.

Claire McCaskill, senior Democratic senator from Missouri, announced today (Feb. 22) she had breast cancer. In a post on her Tumblr, she explained how she plans to balance her treatment with her work load.

Hillary Clinton, who took the Democratic caucus vote in Nevada, the gambling capital of the country, owes at least two precincts to luck. In Carson City and Pahrump the races were tied and had to be decided by chance, which in Nevada’s case appropriately involves a deck of cards.

Donald Trump entered the South Carolina Republican primary race with a strong standing among the state’s many conservatives, despite the establishment backing his rivals. Exit polls suggest there’s one Trump stance that voters particularly favor: his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

Politicians aren’t always honest, but luckily they do so much eating on the campaign trail that it’s nearly impossible for them to hide their true selves.

What if corporate executives whose companies wrecked the environment and economy actually ended up serving prison time?

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Next week’s Nevada Democratic caucus will probably need a few tiebreakers, and in a state devoted to games of chance, the race for the White House is no exception.

Media mogul and former New York city mayor Mike Bloomberg is a perennial non-candidate candidate in US presidential elections. He usually denies rumors that he might be running, but this month, he told the Financial Times that he was “looking at all the options.”

Until recently it seemed like Hillary Clinton had learned a lesson from the 2008 presidential campaign—she hasn’t shied away from women’s issues and is explicitly embracing the historical importance of potentially becoming the first woman president of the United States.

Amid ads for Pokemon, AXE body spray, Bud Light, and Skittles, the National Football League’s Super Bowl championship this Sunday (Feb. 7) will feature a powerful public service announcement against domestic violence.

To save his rather awkward campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Jeb Bush his bringing out the big guns: specifically his mother, Barbara.

Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves knows the life of a refugee: His parents left Soviet-occupied Estonia for Sweden, where he was born, and then moved to the United States. His youth in Leonia, New Jersey happened to give him a perfect American accent—which he used this week to deliver one of the most eloquent and powerful speeches yet about Europe’s refugee crisis.

Marco Rubio is enjoying a bit of a surge following his third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, and is looking to score points among conservative voters ahead of the New Hampshire primary. Yesterday, Rubio accused Barack Obama of inciting religious and ethnic conflict by making a high-profile visit to a mosque, deploying some particularly convoluted logic about racism in America.

The political meme of the moment suggests that Hillary Clinton narrowly edged out her Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucus due to six consecutive coin tosses wins.

Martin O’Malley is reportedly suspending his presidential campaign after a meager showing during the Iowa caucuses, with initial counts showing him with less than 1% of the vote.

A group of 300 plumbers took action this weekend in Flint, Michigan, after authorities took months to react to dangerously high levels of lead in local tap water.

Donald Trump has been repeatedly accused of sexism, after calling women “slobs,” “bimbos,” “ugly,” “disgusting,” objectifying them, and generally commenting on their appearance and bodily functions. Now, an Iowa staffer who was fired last month says his campaign paid her less than her male counterparts, and that Trump himself made a sleazy comment on her looks.

Bernie Sanders has a big week ahead. In Iowa, which will kick off voting with its caucus next week, he is almost neck-and-neck with Hillary Clinton. In New Hampshire, the second state to vote, he leads her by double digits, though nationally he trails by a wide margin.