A former Republican congressman and vocal critic of Donald Trump says he wants to become governor in the president’s adopted home state of Florida and is running as a Democrat.

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature has voted overwhelmingly to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and criminal allegations against his wife.

Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a voice at one of the highest levels of government.

A political consultant who sent voters artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden last year is set to go on trial.

In a bipartisan move, Nevada's Democratic-controlled Legislature has passed a last-minute bill supported by the Republican governor that will require photo ID to vote in person.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block President Donald Trump's administration from implementing an executive order Democratic Party officials claim could undermine the independence of the Federal Election Commission.

Students from around the world say being an international student in American today comes with feelings of fear, anxiety and insecurity that have made them more cautious in their daily lives.

Dutch opposition parties are calling for fresh elections as soon as possible, a day after anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders sparked the collapse of the country’s four-party coalition government.

New South Korean President Lee Jae-myung described his victory as the start of the country’s return to normalcy, after winning a tense election that capped off months of political turmoil.

Images from the election of South Korea's new president are as peaceful and orderly as you’d expect to see in any vibrant democracy.

Preliminary vote tallies from Mexico's first judicial elections indicate the ruling Morena party is headed toward control of the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump implored voters in New Jersey’s primary for governor to vote for Republican Jack Ciattarelli when early in-person voting begins Tuesday and said the state was ready for a change from years of Democratic control.

New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado says he will challenge his boss, Gov. Kathy Hochul, in the governor’s race next year, months after a feud between the two Democrats erupted into public view.

Liberal opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung has been elected president of South Korea.

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they are received up to two weeks after Election Day.

Poland has elected Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist conservative, as its next president — a win that signals a turn to the right in one of the European Union's member states.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has defended a judicial election meant to transform the country’s court system.

Conservative Karol Nawrocki’s victory in Poland’s presidential runoff has set the country on a more nationalist course.

After months of political turmoil, South Korea will elect a new president Tuesday to succeed conservative Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted over his brief but shocking imposition of martial law.

The winner of Tuesday’s presidential election in South Korea will take office just a day later, forgoing the usual, two-month transition to serve a full, five-year term at a time when the country faces a deepening political divide and external challenges such as U.S. tariffs and North Korea’s expanding military partnership with Russia.

Exit polls in Poland’s presidential runoff show the two candidates in a statistical tie with the election too close to call.

Mexico is holding its first ever judicial elections, which have sowed confusion among voters as they struggle to understand a process set to transform the country’s court system.

Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for the country’s future.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has keynoted the Democratic state conventions in South Carolina.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency is a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as an “extraordinary human being."

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has announced he's running for the U.S. Senate.

Democratic and Republican candidates for New Jersey's primary for governor are offering a glimpse of where the general election campaign could go.

South Carolina Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews says she’s running against Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2026.

Poland’s presidential election has come down to a stark ideological choice: a liberal pro-European mayor versus a staunch nationalist conservative.

A man who blamed exposure to far-right extremist content for leading him to threaten Democratic election officials in Colorado and Arizona has been sentenced to three years in prison.

South Korea’s presidential race has devolved into personal attacks and petty disputes, drowning out meaningful policy debate after Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted over his martial law fiasco.

Tommy Tuberville is a U.S. senator running for Alabama governor.

Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy.

The Trump administration has accused North Carolina’s election board of violating federal law by failing to ensure that registration records of some applicants contained identifying numbers.

President Donald Trump’s campaign against the legal profession has hit another setback as a federal judge struck down yet another executive order that sought to sanction one of the country’s most prestigious law firms.

Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville says he’s running for governor of Alabama next year.

Calin Georgescu, the controversial populist whose bid for Romania’s presidency last year resulted in the annulment of an election in the European Union and NATO member country, has announced he is stepping away from political life.

Samoa’s prime minister says she will seek to dissolve Parliament, prompting an early election, after a budget vote failed.

Four months into the Trump administration, some top Democrats are rethinking their approach to podcasts.

Romania’s newly elected president Nicusor Dan has been officially sworn in, ushering in a tentative close to the worst political crisis to grip the European Union country in decades after the annulment of the previous election.

Poles have traveled from across the country to join dueling patriotic marches in Warsaw.

Venezuelans still reeling from the outcome of last year’s presidential election did not respond to government calls to get out and vote for lawmakers, governors and other officials.

Venezuelans are again finding themselves as pawns in their country’s political game.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville plans to run for governor of Alabama in 2026, according to people familiar with his plans.

Between a barrage of executive orders, foreign trips and norm-shattering proclamations, President Donald Trump has also been busy raking in cash.

After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thrusday asked all of his Cabinet secretaries to submit resignations in a “bold reset” of his administration following last week’s mid-term elections, which saw more opposition candidates win crucial Senate seats.

A former Florida Republican congressional candidate accused of stalking and plotting to have his primary opponent murdered by a purported foreign hit squad has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

With just weeks to go until New York City’s mayoral primary, one of the leading candidates, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, finds himself under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Wisconsin could go down as billionaire Elon Musk’s last big spend on a political campaign.

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key financial supporter of President Donald Trump, says he’ll be spending less on political campaigns.

Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump aren't new foes.

A pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania’s presidential election, beating out a hard-right nationalist who had channeled people’s anger at the political establishment to surge in the polls.

Portugal’s president has convened political parties for consultations after a general election delivered another minority government.

There’s a long way to go yet in Poland’s presidential election but Sunday’s first round was a good day for candidates on the right and far right.

Portugal is headed for yet another minority government after the incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance won a general election but failed to secure a majority in Parliament in a vote that saw surge by a hard-right populist party.

An exit poll shows that the liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and a conservative historian, Karol Nawrocki, are the front-runners in a presidential election in Poland.

The incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance has won Portugal’s general election but it fell short of a majority in Parliament and was set to take office as a minority government.

Pro-European Union candidate Nicusor Dan has won Romania’s closely watched presidential runoff against a hard-right nationalist.

Beginning next school year, the curriculum standards for Oklahoma high school students will including conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.

A decade ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a volunteer organizer for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.

Street clashes have erupted in Bolivia's capital of La Paz as hundreds of supporters of ex-President Evo Morales marched toward the country's top electoral court to push for their leader’s candidacy in presidential elections later this year.

Pennsylvania’s two largest cities will hold primaries Tuesday for high-profile municipal offices.

As Romania heads into a critical presidential runoff on Sunday between two starkly different candidates, many view the final vote as a geopolitical choice between East or West.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez provided Democrats a rare bright spot last fall when she won reelection against a MAGA diehard in a Trump-leaning district in southwestern Washington state.

Joe Biden’s time in public office is now behind him, but his age and mental acuity have become a litmus test for the next leaders in his party.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a term-limited Democrat with national ambitions.

When President Donald Trump addressed U_S_ and Qatari troops at a military base in Qatar, he assured the rank and file “we don’t care if you’re politically correct.”.

European Union regulators are accusing TikTok of breaching digital safety rules because of shortcomings in the video sharing app’s online ad database.

Voters in Poland will cast ballots Sunday in a presidential election to choose a successor to conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda.

An ethics complaint stemming from Republican Daniel Cameron’s failed run for Kentucky governor has resurfaced as the former state attorney general campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky.

A Michigan congressman is on a doomed mission to impeach President Donald Trump as he faces challenges at home in his Detroit-area district.

A court in Moscow has convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of organizing the work of an “undesirable” organization and sentenced him to five years in prison.

Georgia’s governor and a lightning-rod congresswoman decided last week to not run for the U.S. Senate.

Gunmen have killed a mayoral candidate from Mexico’s governing party in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and four others who accompanied her.

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV.

Young people have consistently turned out to vote at lower rates than older Americans.

Even though he is detained in The Hague, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was among candidates who vied for some 18,000 national and local seats in Monday’s midterm elections.

Democrats will pick their next presidential nominee in 2028, but before that happens, the party will have to decide which state gets to go first on the nominating calendar.

Voting has ended in Albania’s parliamentary election after a boisterous campaign dominated by the country’s uphill effort to join the European Union and Prime Minister Edi Rama’s bid for a fourth term.

President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry have discussed the possibility that Julia Letlow, a congresswoman elected in 2021 after her husband died of COVID, might challenge Sen. Bill Cassidy in next year's Republican primary.

South Korea’s embattled conservative party has canceled then reinstated the presidential candidacy of Kim Moon Soo within hours, after a failed attempt to replace him with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene won't challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia in next year’s midterms.

Federal agents investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams were still seizing phones and applying for search warrants days before Justice Department leaders ordered prosecutors to drop the corruption case.

The former North Carolina elections director who was ousted this week after a politically motivated move by Republicans said Friday she hopes the new leadership will approach elections in a nonpartisan way and called for an end to verbal attacks against those who oversee the voting process.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told his government colleagues that reducing student debt will be the first legislative priority for his administration that was returned to power in the nation’s first election in which the Baby Boomer generation was outnumbered by younger voters.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, the lawmaker known for his unconventional and irreverent brand of politics, is in the news again after a blowup at a closed-door meeting with union allies and former staff aides who aired concerns about his mental health.

Congressman Buddy Carter has become the first Republican to jump into the race to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2026.

Albania’s main opposition leader has hired Trump-linked campaign consultants and a lobbying firm to help him in the country's May 11 parliamentary election.

Supporters said the bill would protect poll workers who continue to face violent threats.

Six people in a rural Texas county have been indicted in a widening elections investigation led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.

North Carolina's elections board has ousted the agency’s executive director after Republicans gained control.

The county judge, two city council members and others are accused of vote harvesting.

The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat has conceded last November’s election to the Democratic incumbent.

Cornyn’s move to stockpile his campaign team with seasoned GOP operatives signals he is digging in for a serious fight against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he’s informed the White House that he won’t support Donald Trump’s pick for top federal prosecutor in Washington, stalling the nomination in the Senate weeks before the temporary appointment expires.

Romania’s interim president has appointed a new prime minister.

Bangladesh’s ailing former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned to the country from London on Tuesday after four months of medical treatment, adding to pressure for its interim leaders to hold elections.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor in 2026 and sharing new anecdotes in her upcoming political memoir, “The Purposeful Warrior,” including her experience with miscarriage.

Issues about control of book purchases and how curriculums teach race and gender have led to change on many boards, including Keller, Katy and Mansfield ISDs.