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With a trimmed-down field, Democratic hopefuls sparred over Iraq, Iran, military deployments, and the threat from climate change.

World leaders converged at the G-20 summit in Osaka, the Trump administration released its Middle East peace plan, and Democratic presidential contenders took the debate stage.

A fiery drama played out between Le Pen and Macron on live television.

The hot mic tape, dissension in the GOP, and another defense of an aggressive Russia has put Donald Trump on the ropes. But whether or not Hillary Clinton landed her political punches remains to be seen.

“I have no words,” said Ameer Mohamed, a swing-state, Muslim-American voter, to Donald Trump — and Mike Pence — painting immigrants as threats.

A combative Kaine challenged Pence to defend Trump as the unflappable governor blamed Clinton for security crises.

But good God, man. Get your act together.

Neither of the candidates said much that was new.

Neither candidate committed a major new foreign policy gaffe — just, alas, a bunch of old familiar ones — but the debate did not offer much insight.

Why the party can breathe a sigh of relief.

The one thing that was clear about the democratic candidate's answers on the hard questions of foreign policy is that they didn't want to talk about them.

This election isn't about the problems Obama inherited. It's about the ones he's passing along.

The Republican front-runner met stiffer resistance in the second GOP debate.

The 2016 presidential campaign is full of bluster about a bigger, badder military for America. And it shows the candidates don't know much about winning the peace.