British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he is open to calls for a formal apology for Britain's historical role in slavery, before attending next week's Commonwealth
October 31, 2026Why the Alaska Senate race could be so slow — and controversial — to decide
October 31, 2026President Donald Trump rallied with Republican supporters in Florida on Friday while former President Bill Clinton spoke to Democrats just two states over in Mississippi
October 30, 2026Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Friday called for a rapid ceasefire in the Black Sea that would allow safe passage for grain shipments from
October 30, 2026Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Friday that inviting Poland to attend G20 meetings was counter-productive and broke with diplomatic practice of
October 30, 2026A judge has ordered the federal government to pull three taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads from television, social media and elsewhere that she says appear to have been made for political or propaganda purposes
October 30, 2026Tens of thousands of people, mostly students and workers, took to the streets across Italy on Friday to demand higher wages and stronger public services, protest against the rising
October 30, 2026Leo XIV has become the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election, casting a mail-in ballot in Chicago
October 30, 2026Israel's final election results show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc lost its majority in parliament
October 30, 2026President Donald Trump is signaling to states that his administration may be far less likely to help if their voters put Democrats in power on Election Day
October 30, 2026Many standard measures of economic health are strong, but voters in both parties are increasingly pessimistic.
October 30, 2026Japan is pushing a global financial crimes watchdog to remove Myanmar from its blacklist to make it easier to do business there
October 30, 2026President Donald Trump called it the biggest oil deal in history: 17 Venezuelan oilfields holding
October 30, 2026Markets have long been stuck in a wait-and-see mode ahead of the US midterm elections, another potential round of fighting in Iran and the latest sweep of AI
October 30, 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his party have amplified claims that the country's election was “stolen” by Arab-led parties
October 29, 2026The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to California officials in an escalation of its scrutiny of local election administration
October 29, 2026‘Ghoul’ is a political insult with real bite
October 29, 2026Spain faces fresh concerns about rail safety after a second high-speed train crash this year killed 69 people
October 29, 2026A lobbying group that says it represents farmers and meat companies is helping to fund $3 million in attack ads against Republicans in some of the most
October 29, 2026President Emmanuel Macron has accused far-right politicians including in Marine Le Pen's National Rally of fostering an "atmosphere of
October 29, 2026The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged in a well-telegraphed move on Thursday, and said inflation risks were on the rise from surging energy costs, which
October 29, 2026China's Communist Party confirmed the expulsion of 33 officials, including former Politburo member Ma Xingrui and former senior military leader Zhang Youxia, from the party
October 29, 2026He’s styled everyone from Rihanna to Naomi Campbell. Carlos Nazario’s first book isn’t what you might expect
October 29, 2026Donald Trump roared back into office two years ago partly on the power of immigration
October 29, 2026Neither man is on the ballot but Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama
October 28, 2026Pentagon watchdog declines bipartisan request to investigate Starshield slowdowns in Ukraine
October 29, 2026President Donald Trump told Texans they’d better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton
October 28, 2026President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has been scrambling before the midterm election with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that some critics say reeks of politics
October 28, 2026Israel's election results show no clear winner, leading to likely weeks of coalition talks
October 28, 2026Officials say that a six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine has held for its first day and night
October 28, 2026A US judge appeared skeptical on Tuesday of the Justice Department's request to block California from counting any mail ballots for the November 3 midterm
October 27, 2026Argentina's Migration Department said on Wednesday that Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his family briefly entered the country before boarding a private flight bound for
October 28, 2026Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year’s midterm elections
October 28, 2026President Donald Trump wants midterm voters to imagine he's on the ballot and has seized the political spotlight in a way that makes such make-believe seem a bit more real
October 28, 2026France and Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe has drawn public lines against extremism and police violence in his home country, but a joke about his own
October 27, 2026Republican attack ads mocking Troy Jackson’s relationship roil Maine Senate race against Susan Collins
October 27, 2026A clutch of ultra-wealthy executives who made fortunes in and around the cryptocurrency business have become influential players in US politics, collectively spending more than $56
October 27, 2026President Donald Trump is in Mississippi, as he continues a closing midterm campaign blitz that highlights Republicans’ challenges ahead of an election that could drastically shift power in Washington and statehouses across the country
October 26, 2026Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won reelection in Brazil's presidential runoff
October 26, 2026Brazilian stocks and the real currency posted their sharpest losses in years on Monday after the surprise
October 26, 2026Israelis are in the final hours of an intense election season amid reports of a clash between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli military over Iran
October 26, 2026The stakes for Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Party are enormous in this year's midterm elections
October 26, 2026Republicans in the US House of Representatives are defending a narrow majority in November's midterm elections.
October 12, 2026Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long looked on course to lose power in Israel's election, but the race has narrowed as the vote approaches and his
October 26, 2026US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome
October 26, 2026Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Sunday he would not concede defeat to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who secured a fourth non-consecutive term, and would
October 26, 2026President Donald Trump at a Sunday campaign rally ratcheted up his push to link US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to Muslim extremists,
October 25, 2026Plaintiffs' attorneys challenging President Donald Trump's plans to close the Kennedy Center claim his administration is withholding records that document the scope of his influence over the center's management
October 25, 2026How the conservative Supreme Court has rewritten the rules for the midterms
October 25, 2026Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces re-election this week, is drawing criticism from economists and political rivals after suggesting Israel
October 25, 2026Serbia is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday, in which a popular student movement is seeking to end the rule of longtime
October 25, 2026Americans vote on Tuesday in midterm elections that will determine who controls Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term.
October 19, 2026Albanian riot police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who threw rocks at officers and started a fire at the door of the agriculture
October 24, 2026Just days before his 81st birthday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week took ownership of a brand new smartphone, one that former aides said
October 24, 2026Israel’s military says it killed two gunmen who fatally shot two Israeli soldiers near Hebron in the West Bank on Friday
October 23, 2026Costa Rica will deepen cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration to target what the nation's newly re-elected attorney general calls "
October 23, 2026Aung San Suu Kyi's son said that they spoke about health concerns when he spoke with the detained former leader of Myanmar by phone for the first time in five years
October 23, 2026The Israeli army says two soldiers have been killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank
October 23, 2026US consumer sentiment edged down to near a record low in October as rising prices because of the Middle East conflict soured households' views of the economy on the
October 23, 2026Canadian jet maker Bombardier plans to invest $270 million in the United States and add 300 jobs, the company said on Friday, days after President Donald Trump dropped
October 23, 2026Markets are battening down the hatches.
October 23, 2026Moody's spared France a credit rating downgrade on Friday, easing pressure on a government struggling to contain social unrest and shore
October 23, 2026President Donald Trump has accused LeBron James of disrespecting the United States
October 22, 2026Conservatives funded efforts to undercut Sherrod Brown with Black voters in Ohio, filing shows
October 22, 2026With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America’s technology giants are promising to take fewer taxpayer handouts, keep fewer secrets or shower more money onto the communities willing to allow the server warehouses
October 21, 2026Sen. Susan Collins and Troy Jackson condemn use of attack ads in Maine's Senate race
October 22, 2026The International Criminal Court and its officials won the EU's 2026 Sakharov human rights prize, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Thursday, less than
October 22, 2026The International Criminal Court and its embattled staff have won the European Union’s top human rights honor
October 22, 2026A neatly packed cardboard box of pasta, dry beans, canned goods and powdered milk made Tonya King cry.
October 22, 2026A possible merger between Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX and carmaker Tesla may face bigger obstacles from politics than from regulation,
October 22, 2026Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, is in the final stretch of his presidency as France faces intense protests
October 22, 2026If Deb Haaland wins New Mexico’s race for governor, she’ll make history as the first Native American woman to lead a state
October 22, 2026President Donald Trump has unleashed more than $277 million in a last-minute TV and direct mail advertising blitz over the final six weeks of the midterm
October 21, 2026A Tunisian military court sentenced opposition politician Olfa Hamdi to four years in prison on charges of plotting against state security and inciting the
October 21, 2026President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Wednesday to prevent a repeat of last weekend's violence at protests planned in the coming days,
October 21, 2026Mexican federal prosecutors charged a former state prosecutor with treason on Wednesday after accusing him of allowing US personnel to take part in a drug
October 21, 2026President Donald Trump has arrived in Greenville, North Carolina
October 20, 2026Women are less ambitious for local office than men, mirroring an ambition gap that exists at the state and federal level, too. A group of scholars documented this gap and investigated why it exists.
October 21, 2026Money or other material benefits are often not enough to override a voter’s preferences and partisanship.
October 21, 2026Trump’s approval rating hits a new low as midterms enter final stretch: CNN poll
October 21, 2026Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has written a memoir he's calling “One Day Free.”
October 21, 2026A new poll shows Democrats have lost faith in the accuracy of U.S. election results over the past four years
October 21, 2026Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is actively pursuing former officials accused of corruption and power abuses
October 21, 2026One US measles outbreak is proving particularly deadly. Here’s why
October 21, 2026Australian lawmaker has both legs amputated after allegedly deliberate attack by car rammer
October 21, 2026France is known for its vibrant protest culture, where activism is seen as a social duty and part of the national identity
October 21, 2026US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday said the court's conservative majority has undermined democracy and "created a race to the bottom" in how
October 21, 2026Democrats fear slippage with Black voters makes Michigan Senate race feel ‘far closer than it should’
October 20, 2026Poland's lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to allow abortion in case of foetal abnormalities and to decriminalise providing help in getting an abortion, as
October 20, 2026Though human rights groups call it sportswashing, analysts say Formula 1’s choice of Rwanda to host its first African race since the 1990s can become a watershed moment for the continent’s sports industry – if it can deliver lasting development
October 20, 2026Brazil's Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said in a post on X on Tuesday that he would restore Perse, a tax break program for the events sector, if he wins Sunday's presidential
October 20, 2026Israel's central bank is expected to hold the line on short-term interest rates on Wednesday after three successive reductions, as policymakers will
October 20, 2026T-shirts and silver balls: Politics get mixed in with the profane at a Trump store
January 16, 2024Vowels have become the latest players in partisan politics, a barometer of how beliefs and values fit within the old vs. new South.
October 20, 2026Iran has deliberately prolonged talks with the US to try to weaken Donald Trump politically ahead of November's US midterm elections, senior officials say,
October 20, 2026Can Trump change New Mexico’s name to ‘New America’? What to know
October 19, 2026The United States and Cuba have clashed at the United Nations as the Trump administration sought once again to build opposition for an upcoming annual vote condemning Washington's decades-long economic embargo against Havana
October 19, 2026A new AP-NORC/AAPI data poll finds that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander adults have become more disillusioned with President Donald Trump and Republicans as the midterm elections approach
October 19, 2026Obama calls Trump administration’s investigation into Ilhan Omar ‘appalling’
October 18, 2026US President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed his ally Benjamin Netanyahu as the longtime Israeli prime minister struggles
October 18, 2026An airstrike has killed at least nine people in an area of Yemen controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels as fighting escalates with Saudi-backed forces
October 18, 2026President Donald Trump has a new pitch for Republican candidates: they’re easy on the eyes
October 18, 2026Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that his presidential term would end in 2030 and that the question of his departure from office was settled,
October 17, 2026Ethiopia's government has set up a six-month caretaker administration for Tigray following renewed fighting in the region
October 16, 2026Qatar is stepping in to help Lebanon revive its struggling economy
October 16, 2026Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery on Thursday after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering
October 15, 2026Arab parties could win enough seats in Israel's Oct. 27 election to help decide who the next prime minister is
October 16, 2026FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate are suing to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”
October 15, 2026Somalia's electoral commission said on Thursday the Horn of Africa country will hold a presidential election on May 15 next year.
October 15, 2026The FBI and Postal Service are investigating “potentially hazardous” letters with “suspicious substances” mailed to congressional and election offices across the nation
October 15, 2026More than 3 million Medicare Advantage enrollees need to find new plans for 2027 in third year of turmoil
October 15, 2026Brazilian authorities are investigating whether a recent surge in Amazon wildfires was orchestrated
October 15, 2026Exclusive: US considering using ‘mother of all bombs’ against Iran, sources say
October 15, 2026The US Supreme Court again sided with Republicans on Wednesday in the latest clash over a new Federal Communications Commission policy that gives party
October 15, 2026Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro was seen slightly ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva heading into the October 25 presidential runoff, a Quaest poll showed on
October 15, 2026Colombia opened its embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, becoming the 10th government to do so, as new President Abelardo De La Espriella reversed his predecessor's break
October 14, 2026Lawyers for a Ukrainian ex-military officer accused of leading the bombing of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline in September 2022 argued at the start of his
October 14, 2026Thelma Brenes grew worried when her father in Nicaragua did not return her messages.
October 14, 2026Yemen's Houthis vowed on Wednesday to press on with attacks on airports and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, a day
October 14, 2026Republicans are retreating from several key U.S. House races, while Democrats are racing to raise funds for candidates who seemed unlikely to win earlier this year
October 14, 2026New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has faced reporters for the first time for a very brief turn at the lectern
October 13, 2026Former President Barack Obama is heading to Ohio to support Democratic candidates in the Senate and governor's races
October 13, 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday he was ready to sacrifice his popularity in opinion polls to push through long-overdue welfare system reforms that
October 13, 2026GOP senator said gas prices would decide the midterms. Now they’re threatening his reelection
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