President Donald Trump is rehashing longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term.
Georgia's State Ethics Commission is declining to investigate Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over a $10 million loan to a campaign committee.
Wall Street inched to another record following some mixed profit reports, as General Motors and other big U.S. companies gave updates on how much President Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting or helping them.
Australia’s Parliament has resumed for the first time since the Labor Party's historic majority win in May.
U.S. stock indexes inched to more records to kick off a week full of profit updates from big U.S. companies.
Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session that starts Monday.
A federal judge has modified part of a previous ruling that blocked much of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to overhaul elections in the U.S. The minor change affects just one aspect of a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Court Judge Denise J.
The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there's a clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest in doing so.
A Republican candidate for Georgia governor accuses his rival of illegally lending $10 million to a campaign committee.
Republican Ralph Alvarado has reentered Kentucky politics by announcing his bid for a congressional seat targeted by Democrats in 2026.
President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps to help ensure the party keeps its majority in the U.S. House in next year's midterm elections.
Bangladesh was at the precipice of charting a new beginning last year after its former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was removed from power in a student-led uprising.
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie has stockpiled more than $1.7 million for his re-election bid as the Kentucky Republican gears up to face President Donald Trump’s vaunted political operation.
The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.
One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.
A surprise move by the IRS that would allow pastors to back political candidates from the pulpit without losing their organization’s tax-exempt status is drawing praise from conservatives and even some progressive religious groups but concern from other leaders of faith, along with tax and legal experts.
The Trump administration has announced it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories.
An investigation by Wisconsin's elections commission has concluded that unlawful actions by Madison's former city clerk led to nearly 200 absentee ballots going uncounted in the 2024 presidential election.
A federal appeals court has overturned a self-styled right-wing propagandist’s conviction for spreading falsehoods on social media in an effort to suppress Democratic turnout in the 2016 presidential election.
Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics since almost the beginning.
Former labor union leader and independent candidate Dan Osborn has announced his bid for a Nebraska U.S. Senate seat, challenging Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a two-day tour in South Carolina, urging rural voters to stand up to President Donald Trump and challenge Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
Five Democrats and three Republicans are running in a July 15 primary election in southern Arizona to succeed the late Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day.
A newly released report from the CIA challenges the work intelligence agencies did to investigate Russia's support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government struggles after its major defeat in last year’s snap election.
Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer has announced a GOP primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Republican businessman Nate Morris says Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is undeserving of a lifetime achievement award from their home state political party.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks a year in office this week, facing challenges from within his party and the public.
Casting mailed ballots remained popular among voters in last year’s presidential election, even as President Donald Trump has tried to undercut the process through a wide-ranging executive order.
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement over the weekend that he won't seek reelection is heating up the campaign on both sides of the aisle.
South Dakota’s lone member of the U.S. House, Dusty Johnson, has announced that he is entering the race to become South Dakota governor in the 2026 election.
Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska has announced he will not seek reelection next year.
The Supreme Court will take up a Republican-led drive to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.
Chilean Communist Jeannette Jara, the country’s former labor minister, has won the primary election for left-wing parties with surprising ease, beating out a more moderate rival to clinch over 60% of the vote.
Democrats and Republicans in northern Virginia have chosen candidates who will vie to replace the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly.
Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is the expected Democratic nominee for mayor in America’s most Jewish city and that's raising alarms among some in the New York's Jewish community.
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania isn’t even up for reelection until 2028, but already a one-time primary foe, Conor Lamb, is crisscrossing Pennsylvania looking and sounding like he’s preparing to challenge Fetterman again.
Republican businessman Nate Morris has entered Kentucky’s competitive campaign to succeed longtime Senate power broker Mitch McConnell.
A leaked intelligence memo contradicting President Donald Trump's assessment of U.S. strikes on Iran is the latest conflict with a part of the federal government he views with deep suspicion.
People across the country are still learning about Zohran Mamdani, who stunned the political world and is poised to become the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor after sweeping past Andrew Cuomo.
The stunning success of Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, in the race for New York City mayor has exposed the fiery divisions plaguing the Democratic Party as it struggles to repair its brand.
Zohran Mamdani has claimed victory over a wounded, but still perhaps formidable Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary.
Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill has announced plans to run for the northeast Ohio congressional seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. David Joyce.
Zohran Mamdani had been a state lawmaker unknown even to most New Yorkers before announcing his run for mayor.
Zohran Mamdani has declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race in a stunning upset.
Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, kicked off his bid for the state’s first open gubernatorial race in 16 years.
President Donald Trump and his political operation are working to unseat their first Republican incumbent: Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who has drawn Trump’s wrath by saying the president lacked the authority to attack Iran’s nuclear sites without congressional approval.
President Donald Trump is calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden, repeating his baseless claim the contest was marred by widespread fraud.
Voters across New York state Tuesday will pick nominees in municipal primaries that include high-profile comeback bids in New York City by a former governor and a former congressman who both left office mired in scandal.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has launched a sweeping anti-Ukraine campaign he hopes will sway voters ahead of elections next year, and discredit his chief political rival.
Democrats have spent the early months of Donald Trump's second presidency trying to find the right messages and messengers to counter an aggressive administration.
Bridget Brink, who stepped down as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine this year in protest of what she said was President Donald Trump’s unfair treatment of the the war-torn country, says she’s running for Congress in one of Michigan’s most competitive districts as a Democrat.
Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez, a conservative Republican, has officially launched his bid to run for U.S. Senate in 2026.
Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, is set to enter the state’s open gubernatorial race in 2026.
As Election Day unfolds in the Houston area, voters are sharing photos of their ‘I Voted’ stickers to showcase their participation.
The Trump administration's Justice Department has begun targeting Democratic and presidential swing states with demands for election data or changes to voter registration procedures.
Guinea’s military junta has created a new institution that will be responsible for managing elections, including a constitutional referendum in September and the general and presidential elections set for December.
A political consultant who sent robocalls that used artificial intelligence to mimic former President Joe Biden has been acquitted of 22 criminal charges in New Hampshire.
The attorneys general for California and New York are praising a federal judge's decision to block President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections.
Getting to know the candidates in New Jersey’s race for governor may offer insights about the national mood on President Donald Trump’s agenda, as well as how voters are reacting to Democrats’ messaging.
A government watchdog group in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from ever again offering cash payments to voters in the battleground state like he did in this spring’s hotly contested Supreme Court race.
New Jersey primary voters chose their nominees — and President Donald Trump notched a win in his endorsement belt — in one of two high-stakes governor's races being held this year.
President Donald Trump in recent days has sent thousands of National Guard troops and 700 active duty Marines to quell Los Angeles-area protests over immigration enforcement actions, despite the objections of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and local leaders.
Votes won’t count for Democrat Daniel Blackman in the June 17 primary election for Georgia Public Service Commission.
U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill has won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s race for governor.
One of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, is sticking by his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
President Donald Trump is moving swiftly to act on his immigration promises with little internal restraint, determined to test the bounds of his executive authority in order to fulfill the promises of his reelection campaign.
The conservative Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay has been shot and seriously injured at a campaign rally in the capital, Bogota.
Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a possible candidate in the country’s presidential election next year, was shot and wounded at a campaign rally in Bogota on Saturday.
