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The results are in and shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been following this election: 2016 delivered the most viewers of any presidential debate cycle in U.S. TV history.

Donald Trump's campaign manager says the GOP presidential nominee is willing to do another debate against Hillary Clinton.

"Did you see the debate and the way of their speaking, accusing and mocking each other? Do we want such a democracy in our country? Do we want such elections in our country?" Rouhani said, speaking to a crowd in the Iranian city of Arak.

National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has said it still intends to organise a presidential debate ahead of the 2016 general elections.

Frank Fahrenkopf promised me a good story, but one he could not share until after the final debate.

YouTube’s airing of the U.S. presidential debates via news organizations’ live streams have clocked in as the most-viewed political live streams of all time, the company says.

Rarely have seven minutes so encapsulated the complexity and the craziness of an entire presidential race, let alone this one. But they did on Wednesday night.

Here are five takeaways from a historic, and possibly decisive, final debate of 2016.

In interviews with over a dozen senior Republican strategists, not one said Trump did anything to change the trajectory of a contest that is growing further out of reach. And many said they were deeply distressed by Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the Nov. 8 election, an eyebrow-raising

In an election season where Trump’s trouble with women has taken center stage, it took just seconds for his dig to blossom into an empowering feminist slogan.

Yet, in its own way, the event was an apt reflection of America’s elaborate process of choosing a president — an exhausting, 18-month marathon of elections, debates and TV-driven rituals costing hundreds of millions of dollars, now grinding toward its climax with the vote on Nov. 8.

After surveying footage of past presidential debates on YouTube, the Miami Herald‘s “Naked Politics” blog found “an unbroken streak of handshakes dating all the way back to the first time Gerald Ford faced Jimmy Carter in 1976″—the year that established debates as a regular event—and concluded that