WASHINGTON (AP) - Ben Carson ran for president, and his consultants won. The political newcomer, who said Friday that he was ending his bid for the White House, raised $58 million, more money than any other GOP contender raised. But an Associated Pr...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he is effectively ending his bid for the White House Wednesday, concluding a roller-coaster campaign that briefly took him to the top of a chaotic GOP field but ended with a Super Tuesday whimpe...

The Democrats' primary election race for U.S. Senate has been in part a competition to compare backgrounds and experiences among the three candidates vying for a shot to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk. Two-term U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Ho...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexicans backed former President Vicente Fox in his verbal spat with Donald Trump on Friday, after Fox called the Republican front-runner "crazy" and a "false prophet" and Trump replied that he ought to be "ashamed of himself" for...

ZURICH (AP) - The support of most nations in Africa and Asia and the backing of one of sports' biggest power brokers should be enough to put Sheikh Salman of Bahrain in charge of the world's most popular sport on Friday, as FIFA elects a president t...

SEVNICA, Slovenia (AP) - Melania Trump has seen more of the world than most people - a journey propelled by her own big dreams concocted as a young girl growing up under Communism. Now she is a glamorous former model swathed in couture, a woman fami...

ZURICH (AP) - FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman supports the crackdown on corruption in world football, but doesn't want it overshadowing the elections this week. "We don't want to see a PR stunt," Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa of Bah...

As Donald Trump won his third straight primary Tuesday in Nevada, it was unclear which of Illinois Republicans' preferred candidates might emerge as the real estate mogul's most serious challenger here. Some of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's local d...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Latest on the 2016 presidential race a day before the Republican caucuses in Nevada. South Carolina Democrats vote for their presidential nominee on Saturday (all times local): 10:30 p.m. Republican presidential candidate Donald...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) - Voting has begun in the West African nation of Niger, where President Mahamadou Issoufou is touting his record of defending the country from Islamic extremists as he vies against 14 other candidates for a second five-year term. ...