It was a week of hostilities in the GOP presidential arena. Jeb Bush and Donald Trump traded virtual punches on camera, with both campaigns releasing aggressive video ads. Bush even resorted to his language skills to discredit the real estate magnate. Trump later fired back telling Bush, who is bilingual, he should stop speaking Spanish.

The New York Times also noted that Trump’s relentless bashing of Bush’s personality over his political agenda may have hit home.

Summer 2015 is drawing to an end, with Bloomberg noting that Donald Trump appears to be more than a seasonal fling and Politico reports that some GOP leader are plotting creative ways to neutralize the prospect of his becoming a third-party candidate.

Trump kicked off the week with more tongue-lashing of Fox anchor Megyn Kelly, a move that prompted Fox News president Roger Ailes to demand an apology from Trump for lambasting Kelly on Twitter. Another journalist stirred the ire of the business magnate this week: Fusion’s Jorge Ramos was kicked out of a Trump press conference for asking unwanted questions about immigration. Perhaps not surprisingly, Trump’s approval rates among Hispanic voters are not great.

Photo caption: A man walks past a mural depicting Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas August 13, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s recent move to close border crossings and deport hundreds of Colombians prompted some of his opponents to compare him to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch thinks it’s time for another billionaire to step into the campaign limelight: fellow business magnate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Murdoch, the billionaire owner of News Corporation, took to Twitter on Sunday in what appeared to be an official endorsement of Bloomberg.

Presidential hopefuls pulled no punches as the campaign race heated up this week.

GOP candidates engaged in some Hillary Clinton-bashing  as new details emerged about some allegedly classified emails she sent and received on her private server while she was Secretary of State (Reuters took home an exclusive on this.)

Social media was abuzz on Wednesday with the news of an unlikely presidential candidate climbing the polls in North Carolina.

According to data released by polling company Public Policy Polling, presidential hopeful Deez Nuts is polling at 9 percent in that state, on a par with Florida Senator Marco Rubio and outperforming Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin.

Earlier this week, Benedetta Arese Lucini, the general manager of Uber’s operations in Italy, woke up to news that someone had hung a banner near her home in central Milan, calling her a “slut” and revealing her home address.

The latest incident in a smear campaign against the female executive, who has worked for the online taxi-hailing company for almost two years, was not only an attack against the car service, but also emblematic of Italy’s deeply-entrenched misogyny, commentators say.

Earlier this week, Benedetta Arese Lucini, the general manager of Uber’s operations in Italy, woke up to news that someone had hung a banner near her home in central Milan, calling her a “slut” and revealing her home address.

The latest incident in a smear campaign against the female executive, who has worked for the online taxi-hailing company for almost two years, was not only an attack against the car service, but also emblematic of Italy’s deeply-entrenched misogyny, commentators say.