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Shoestring campaign brings Evan McMullin, a Mormon, to brink of a famous upset in Utah

Is the Clinton Foundation a ‘criminal enterprise,’ and has Trump ever spoken with Putin?

Net Results: No California tech firm appears on Trump’s top-25 table of employee contributions

Businessman sells self as beholden to no one but investigation finds debts of at least $650m

About one-third of incumbent’s supporters back Democrats presidential nominee

Union opposing Irish-based airline’s transatlantic plans funded congressman Peter DeFazio

Tycoon fails to score points on rival with Saddam Hussein gaffe and party clashes

Financial position of Whitehouse hopeful Clinton far stronger having raised $240m

Traditional media companies face the increasingly daunting task of hooking already-inundated audiences, but they also have more tools than ever to lure them, writes Joe Rutenberg

Banker recently highlighted as only employee of bank to contribute to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign

Analysis: Collapse of front-runner with the $150m war chest a cautionary tale of miscalculations

Democrats clash in final debate before second nominating contest in New Hampshire

The Republican presidential candidate received a $500,000 loan from Goldman Sachs

American businessman has promised to invest €45m in Doonbeg resort

Billionaire hedge fund founder Tom Steyer is natural arch-nemesis to Koch brothers

Taoiseach attended fundraiser for Republican congressman Mick Mulvaney, a member of the far-right Tea Party faction

British and Irish law meet European human rights standard but at odds with US practice