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State Department spokesman John Kirby said there was no quid pro quo with the $400 million payment, which he said was tied to a claim Iran launched in an international tribunal.

Capital murder trials and executions had been on hold awaiting this decision. The justices found that juries, not judges, should have final say in whether to sentence someone to death.

Bratton, who has also served as the police chief in Boston and Los Angeles, will step down in September, likely marking an end to a 45-year career in public life.

Hillary Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, speaks Spanish, including on the campaign trail. Clinton's team considers his skill a way to reach out to Latino voters, but how do they see it?

The rhetoric on the stage at both conventions was dramatized by interactions between protesters and police on the streets.

We asked women — as young as 4 and as old as 77 — how much the weight of history factored into their decision.

Clinton's nomination completes the field for an American political campaign without precedent. She has now officially become Republican Donald Trump's Democratic rival for the presidency.

Everyone from President Obama to Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine contrasted the Democratic vision of America to the vision offered by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

"Speaking Spanish doesn't mean that he understands the issues," one DNC attendee said. Other Latinos say his second language reveals a deeper ability to understand issues important to them.

The former president painted a portrait of Hillary Clinton as a fighter who works relentlessly to make the world better.

It is a historic first 150 years in the making, starting when suffragettes demanded the right to vote and Victoria Claflin Woodhull became the first woman to run for president in the United States.

Outside the convention, supporters of Bernie Sanders demonstrated against what they said was a rigged system, while the atmosphere turned chaotic inside the convention hall.

President Obama praised Wasserman Schultz's service, saying that "her leadership of the DNC has meant that we had someone who brought Democrats together."

In a press conference Friday, Donald Trump also referred once again to a conspiracy theory linking Cruz's father to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

One man at the Republican National Convention said supporting any other candidate "would be the definition of insanity," because something has to change. Hear his and other voters' responses.

As Republicans made overtures to Latinos inside the convention hall, protesters outside denounced what they said was Donald Trump's racism.

In the halls of the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, there was shock and disappointment from some in the Texas delegation. But others said Cruz did exactly what Donald Trump would have wanted.

The program will feature Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, as well as Govs. Rick Scott and Scott Walker riffing off the theme "Make America First Again." Gov. Mike Pence headlines.

Melania Trump isn't the only political figure who has given a speech that matched another person's words a little too closely. This is a short list.

Despite protesters bearing arms in public and tension over recent police shootings, the mood in Cleveland was celebratory as the GOP convention opened Monday afternoon.