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There must have been something in the air in 1964. Many of the people who shape our world are turning 60 this year

The 78-year-old treasury secretary is the first woman to hold the job and that of Federal Reserve chair, and the first person to also chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, will go head to head with Donald Trump, a convicted criminal, in Philadelphia on Tuesday in their first – and maybe only – debate

Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president’s xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology

The 1960 presidential debates featured John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the first national contest to be televised

Trump's outrageous claims must not stand — Democrats have been far better at managing the economy since FDR

Today’s young women are unleashing their anger not in group chats or over coffee with friends, but in windowless rooms filled with crockery and dinnerware, which can be shattered to smithereens – for a price. Lydia Spencer-Elliott went to one to see what all the fuss was about – and…

The Republican presidential nominee accused Democrats of having engaged in ‘rampant cheating and Skullduggery’ in the 2020 election

Democratic vice-presidential nominee tells the Human Rights Campaign how his time starting a gay-straight alliance moved him to support gay rights

Former president has already complained that ABC, the networking hosting the debate, is the ‘worst network in terms of fairness’

‘What we’re seeing now is a reflection of someone who’s very troubled and very desperate,’ says Timothy O’Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald