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In a bizarre start to the first Republican debate, the front-runner got booed and Sen. Rand Paul went on the attack.

Bobby Jindal got hit quick during Thursday's candidate forum for his low Louisiana polling. Is that a problem for everyone else?

For your pleasure and edification, here's an updating stream of tweets about the #GOPDebates.

While no guests have been officially announced, Twitter has given fans some pretty telling hints.

The 2016 general election isn't for another 460 days, but it's already wildly defying expectations.

Donald Trump was "the elephant not in the room" -- and Carly Fiorina got off the best shot at him during what was billed as a second-tier debate.

Among the candidates who exceeded the word limit while describing Hillary Clinton during the first GOP debate was former N.Y. Gov. George Pataki, who replied, "Divisive and with no vision at all."

"This is a rogue Supreme Court decision," Santorum said in the first GOP debates. He has said the court's gay marriage ruling "put the nail in the coffin" of the nuclear family.

"If I have to monitor a mosque, I'll monitor a mosque," Sen. Lindsey Graham said.

"America is worth the wait," is the Republican candidate's message to immigrant families.

The seven GOP presidential hopefuls who didn't make the top 10 may be looking at their last, best chance to punch through.

When Hillary Clinton launched her campaign on YouTube in 2007, many GOP contenders were baffled. Now they're signing up for every social network — most notably, Snapchat.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's camp calls the schedule too thin.

Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera fires back in a Twitter war against Nixon-operative-turned-Trump adviser Roger Stone.

The Democratic presidential candidate, a self-described democratic socialist, wants to discuss income inequality and other issues at Virginia's Liberty University.

The first Republican debate on Thursday is being held in Cleveland — and inside a battleground state that could make it or break it for the GOP.

In the highly anticipated first primary debate for the 2016 election Thursday night, the Republicans' top 10 presidential candidates square off in Cleveland. 

A new Rutgers-Eagleton poll found that only 30 percent of New Jersey's registered voters hold a favorable opinion of Gov. Chris Christie, a 2016 Republican presidential hopeful.

The alleged incidents date back to 2007 and continued through last August.

Police are working to confirm more details about the suspect 29-year-old Vincente David Montano, who is said to be homeless.

The famous redhead would have been 104 On Thursday.

The law required voters to have specific IDs and rejected many kinds commonly used by minorities and students.

A close ally of the Republican presidential candidate is taking heat from the Justice Department.

Intense search efforts persisted for two days, but her son Alexey Molchanov said Tuesday afternoon that she was not expected to be found alive. 

"Politics has always been a mixture of jokes and ridiculous things and policy and character and war and peace,” said BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith.

The 2016 presidential candidate said he'd be the "greatest representative of Christians in a long time" -- and evangelicals want to believe him.

The New Jersey governor's Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts might help explain why voters, including those in his home state, don't view him as a leader.

Ten Republican candidates with no military experience will go head-to-head Thursday in the first televised debate ahead of the GOP primaries.

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