Moldovaโs Prime Minister Dorin Recean warns that Russia is spending heavily to influence an upcoming parliamentary election.
Costa Ricaโs congress fell short Monday of the supermajority required to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of immunity in order to prosecute him on corruption charges.
Moldovan authorities have conducted 250 raids and detained dozens of people as part of an investigation into an alleged Russia-backed plan to incite mass riots.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has arrived in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly.
Vote counting was underway in Guinea Sunday evening in some polling stations in a referendum on a draft constitution that could allow the leader of the countryโs junta to run for the presidency.
The leader of the Unification Church has been questioned by investigators over allegations that the church bribed the wife of South Korea's jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him in an effort to secure business favors.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has criticized the U.S. after it added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war.
Malawi has begun counting votes in a presidential election that's expected to be a tight race between two old rivals and could go to a runoff.
A San Francisco supervisor who pushed to turn a 2-mile stretch of highway into a car-free park faces a recall vote in his district.
Malawi is to hold a presidential election this week as the impoverished African nation grapples with an economic crisis and food and fuel shortages.
Nepalโs president has appointed former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as interim prime minister.
Ex-Vice President Kamala Harris says it was reckless for Democrats to let President Joe Biden decide whether to seek reelection last year.
As Donald Trump prepared to return to the White House, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham encouraged him to send a message to drug cartels.
The dismissal of fraud charges against 15 Michigan Republicans is the latest and most dramatic setback in the cases against the fake electors who were part of President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A Democratic mayor secured a comfortable win in a primary election despite days of intense backlash following the deadly stabbing of a young Ukrainian woman on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat who has been mentioned as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, has officially announced his reelection campaign for governor.
Missouri's Republican-led House has passed a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump.
A Michigan judge has dismissed the criminal cases against 15 people accused of acting falsely as electors for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has advanced in Tuesday's preliminary election and will face the son of the Patriots owner in November.
The Department of Homeland Security is trumpeting the start of a new immigration operation in Chicago that's stirring up fresh confusion and anxiety.
Norwegians are heading to the polls in the main day of voting for a new parliament, after a campaign in which the future of a wealth tax that dates to the late 19th century has been a central issue.
The party of Argentinaโs libertarian President Javier Milei has suffered a sweeping setback in the Buenos Aires provincial election that is viewed as a barometer of the party's performance in congressional midterms next month.
Norway is holding an election for parliament with inequality and the future of a century-old wealth tax in focus.
Japanโs Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he will step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in Julyโs parliamentary election.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani rallied supporters at a town hall in Brooklyn, slamming President Donald Trump and boosting their shared progressive message.
President Donald Trump has been using his second term to amass and wield unprecedented power.
Nigel Farage has made a bold pitch to his Reform UK party, echoing themes that helped Donald Trump rise to power.
Democrats and Republicans are testing dueling playbooks in fall elections that will decide the leadership of Virginia and New Jersey โ and perhaps a new direction for the parties heading into next yearโs midterms.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has agreed to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free trip to Hawaii and other complimentary trips while serving as the stateโs attorney general.
Boston voters will narrow the field of candidates for mayor in a municipal primary that pits incumbent Michelle Wu against Josh Kraft, son of billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
Voters in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington will choose a replacement Tuesday for the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, who died in May after battling cancer.
Japanโs Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's order to implement lower tariffs on automobiles and other Japanese imports.
Fox News seemed to be dealt a crippling blow in a $787 million settlement of a libel lawsuit more than two years ago, but has instead thrived.
President Donald Trump says he thinks Democrat Zohran Mamdani is likely to become New York Cityโs next mayor unless two of the three candidates running against him drop out of the race.
Gabriel Sterling, known for defending Georgia's 2020 election results, is running for the state's secretary of state.
Argentinaโs senate has dealt a blow to President Javier Mileiโs libertarian agenda overriding his veto on raising disability benefits.
Some Missouri residents are denouncing a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump.
Missouri has become the third state to embrace a mid-decade redesign of its U.S. House districts in a quest for partisan advantage.
A new paper from Vanderbilt University suggests Americans could save about $100 billion annually if credit card interest rates were capped at 10%, as proposed by President Donald Trump.
SiriusXM is giving a national boost to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's podcast, announcing it will begin distributing it and host Beshear for a regular call-in show on the satellite radio network.
The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is insisting that he isnโt dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has secured a third term following a tight race on an island shaken by corruption, inequity and economic concerns.
Curtis Sliwa is the bombastic creator of New York Cityโs Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol group who lost his last election battle with Mayor Eric Adams by almost 40 percentage points.
Collin, Bastrop and Williamson counties say theyโre proactively changing their voting procedures and equipment following a federal attempt to limit barcodes or QR codes on paper ballots.
Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year, according to an interview published Monday night by The New York Times.
Centrist Bolivian presidential front-runner Rodrigo Paz is hoping to attract a diverse group of voters with catchall rhetoric to fix Boliviaโs worst economic crisis in decades.
Thousands of voters in Guyana have participated in what many say is the South American countryโs most consequential election in decades.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration will soon expand immigration operations in Chicago.
A new AP-NORC poll finds that while most Democrats disapprove of how Trump is handling the issue, a large majority, 68%, see crime as a โmajor problemโ in large cities.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has endorsed Derek Dooley for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat in 2026.
California voters will decide in November whether to OK a new congressional map that would benefit Democrats.
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is highlighting her connection to President Donald Trump in her first campaign ad for the state's gubernatorial race.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is expected to announce next month she won't seek reelection, leaving another vacancy in an Iowa seat that could have ripple effects down the ballot as Democrats look to the state for pickup opportunities.
In a story published Aug. 29, 2025, about Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley announcing she will not seek reelection, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Bradley voted with the majority in upholding Act 10, a law that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most state workers.
New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is out courting Black voters, trying to do better with them in the general election than he did in the primary.
Samoa went to the polls in a critical election that could decide the future of its first woman leader, prime minister Fiamฤ Naomi Mataโafa.
The United States is boosting its maritime force near Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels.
The first Black mayor of an Alabama town has won election by a landslide, four years after he ran unopposed and white residents locked him out of the town hall.
A federal judge has thrown out Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr's campaign finance lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.
President Javier Milei of Argentina has fired back at his political opponents and defended his influential sister against claims that she and other close associates profited from a bribery scheme within the countryโs disability agency.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nationโs third-largest city doesnโt need or want military intervention to fight crime.
A judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board.
The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the partyโs next presidential primary calendar.
Democrat Catelin Drey has won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat in a district that previously leaned Republican.
Voting-rights advocates are suing to overturn all of the redistricting plans drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor Republicans in 2026 midterm elections, saying the map weakens the electoral influence of Black voters.
Bill Pulte, the country's top housing regulator, has been using his position to target President Trump's political enemies.
The father of Miguel Uribe, the Colombian presidential candidate fatally shot at a political rally earlier this year, has launched a campaign for Colombia's presidency.
The measure comes four years after the stateโs highest criminal court ruled the agency could not bring election cases without an invitation from local prosecutors.
A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
A watchdog investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith over his prosecutions of President Donald Trump is based on an โimaginary and unfoundedโ premise.
The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the stateโs congressional boundaries after a judge ruled the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put in place by voters to ensure districts arenโt drawn to favor any party.
Legislation pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott would bar voters at the polls from immediately casting a ballot based on a last-minute update to their address.
Jorge โTutoโ Quiroga was once seen as a sideshow in Boliviaโs presidential races, his pleas for free markets and small government falling on deaf ears in a country dominated by leftism.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress.
The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the stateโs 2026 Senate campaign.
A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.
The Associated Press has used an "efficiency gap" analysis to examine congressional elections in 2024 and other recent presidential election years.
Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics.
