Marco Rubio

U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan 12 ended a decades-old policy that allowed Cuban migrants who arrived illegally on U.S. soil to stay.

In one of his final acts before leaving the White House, he scrapped rules allowing those fleeing communist Cuba and reaching American territory a fast track to permanent resident status.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu held a meeting with visiting U.S. Senator for Florida Marco Rubio, also a former Republican presidential candidate, on May 5 focused on regional issues and the U.S.-led coalition's fight against jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Hillary Clinton took a monumental step toward clinching the Democratic party's White House nomination on March 15, while Donald Trump's seemingly unstoppable rush to victory hit a bump in Ohio.

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz split victories in four nominating contests with front-runner Donald Trump on March 5, bolstering Cruz's argument that he represents the party's best chance to stop the brash New York billionaire. 

Former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump as "a fraud" on March 3 and urged primary voters to keep the outspoken New York billionaire from getting the nomination, paving the way for possible horse trading at a party convention in July. 

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations  on March 1 with a series of state-by-state victories, but their rivals vowed to keep on fighting.

On Super Tuesday, the 2016 campaign's biggest day of nominating contests, Trump, 69, and Clinton, 68, proved themselves the undisputed front-runners. 

Americans began voting on March 1 in what is deemed the most pivotal day in the presidential nominating process, with frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hoping to wipe out their rivals.

Americans vote Tuesday in what is deemed the most pivotal day in the presidential nominating process, with front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hoping to finish off their challengers.

U.S. Republican rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz ganged up on front-runner Donald Trump at a raucous debate on Feb. 25 in a last-ditch bid to keep the billionaire from winning victories next week that could set him up to clinch the presidential nomination.

Donald Trump stormed to victory in Tuesday's Republican caucuses in Nevada, giving the billionaire businessman his third straight win in the race for the White House.