Pressure is building on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to give up his fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Hillary Clinton savored history Wednesday as the first woman to claim the US presidential nomination for a major party, taking stock before a bruising war for the White House against Donald Trump.

Fresh from sewing up the Democratic presidential nomination, HIllary Clinton takes aim at her Republican nemesis Donald Trump for using divisive rhetoric that belittles women, Muslims and immigrants.

Leading Republicans united Tuesday in an extraordinary denunciation of Donald Trump's attacks on a federal judge, with House Speaker Paul Ryan calling them the "textbook definition of a racist comment." Yet Ryan stood by his endorsement of the presumptive presidential nominee.

Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente should probably be a Republican. The walls in the lobby of his San Diego, California, office are dominated by photos in which he's smiling alongside Republicans - Presidents Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and George W Bush, and 2008 nominee John McCain.

Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic nomination for US president after reaching the required number of delegates, an AP tally suggests.

North Korea backs US Republican nominee Donald Trump, praising him as "a prescient presidential candidate" who can liberate Americans living under daily fear of nuclear attack.

Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking may have a good grasp of the workings of the universe, but he says he can not understand Donald Trump's popularity.

Martin Shkreli, an infamous American pharmaceutical bigshot often considered 'the most hated man in America', endorses Donald Trump for US presidential elections.

Supporters and opponents of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump clashes in the city of San Diego in California.

Donald Trump wins Republican nomination for president, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and sets the stage for a bitter fall campaign.

Protesters outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico have thrown burning T-shirts and bottles and clashed with police.

Can all those years of Donald Trump saying "you're fired" on reality TV actually get him hired - as president?

Donald Trump says he is unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron because the British prime minister cast the US presidential candidate as "divisive, stupid and wrong" for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.

Straining to mend their party after months of chaos, Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan declare themselves "totally committed" to working together after a fence-mending personal meeting on Thursday.

Both Ted Cruz and John Kasich have fallen by the wayside, while Donald Trump dashed to the finishing line of Republican Party nomination for the US presidential race in 2016.

Republican Donald Trump pulled even with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday, in a dramatic early sign that the Nov. 8 presidential election might be more hotly contested than first thought.

Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he's got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side.

Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia primary in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, US media project.

US House Speaker Paul Ryan says he cannot currently support Donald Trump as Republican presidential nominee.