US presidential elections 2016

The name of the Democratic nominee, the first woman in American history to win a major party nomination for president, was misspelled on souvenir tickets handed out to students at Hofstra University.

The tickets given to 350 students who won coveted seats in a lottery to attend the debate misspelled Clinton's first name -- "Hilary" -- TV networks NBC and CBS reported.

The 90-minute debate will begin at 6:30am(IST) at Hofstra University on New York state's Long Island. It is the first of three planned presidential debates.

After months of tangling from afar, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will confront each other face-to-face for the first time in Monday night's presidential debate, laying out for voters their vastly different visions for the nation's future. The high-stakes showdown — the first of three presidential debates — comes as both candidates are viewed negatively by large numbers of Americans.

More than 100 million viewers are expected to tune into the first US Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday night despite the low approval ratings of the two candidates. Only a few programmes in US television history have recorded 100 million viewers and Monday's Presidential debate could be the first political spectacle with almost one in three Americans checking in.

Improved chances of actually winning the White House has led the Trump campaign to persuade its maverick candidate to increasingly adopt a Presidential manner, including rolling back some of his wackier ideas and curtailing abrasive and red-blooded rhetoric.

Hillary Clinton's health, for long an obsession of right-wing conspiratorialists who she disdains, has become a legitimate Presidential campaign issue. Her supporters argued that part of the reason for the uproar is the underlying gender dynamics that stereotyped women as being "weak." If a man had a bout of pneumonia, they argued, it would be no big deal.

Donald Trump is a Russian stooge. Hillary Clinton is a North Korean patsy. He's wacko. She's mental. And so on, the US Presidential election continued to plumb uncharted lows, some eight weeks before Election Day.