Hundreds of Democrats cheered Sen. Ruben Gallego in eastern Iowa as the Arizona Democrat criticized President Donald Trump's tax bill at a town hall meeting in Davenport.

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is in his fifth decade in Congress and the veteran Democrat is showing no inclination to step aside.

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

President Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation.

Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer has suspended his GOP primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham.

At the core of the fight in Texas over redrawing the state’s congressional districts is a debate over a time-honored right spelled out in the Constitution: Every two years, “the People” get to pick someone to represent their interests in the U.S. House of Representatives.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have appeared shoulder-to-shoulder with Texas Democratic lawmakers in a show of support for their nearly weeklong walkout.

A Belarusian journalist was convicted of treason and revealing state secrets and was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a closed trial.

Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterparts were a regular occurrence early in his tenure.

California Democrats are rushing to schedule an election to remake U.S. House districts to counter plans to boost Republican seats in Texas.

The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and accusing him of working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine.

Dean Cain wants to join the U.S. and Immigration Customs Enforcement agency.

Women in Liberia are leading the charge against the rampant drug abuse ravaging youths in the West African nation.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is suing Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over how Jones is financing his campaign as both Republicans run for governor in 2026.

President Donald Trump has recognized nearly 100 Purple Heart recipients at the White House.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has been a career Democrat in the battleground state of Michigan but is now planning to run for governor as an independent.

Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a Republican plan for congressional redistricting are pleading for donations to help cover their costs.

Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has announced that she is entering the open Tennessee governor’s race in 2026.

Bosnia’s electoral authorities have removed separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik from his position as president of the Serb entity in Bosnia, following an appeals court verdict sentencing him to one year in jail and a six-year ban on all political activities.

Conservative Karol Nawrocki has been inaugurated as Poland’s new president, which could set the country on a more nationalist course.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to criminally investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe from the Obama era.

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on Brazil in defense of the country's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has marked a low point in U.S.-Brazil relations.

The race for Detroit’s next mayor is set to pit a longtime City Council member against a popular pastor.

Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Trump's second presidency.

President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial for an alleged coup plot after losing the 2022 election.

Libertarian President Javier Milei has vetoed attempts to increase spending on pensions and expand protections for people with disabilities in Argentina.

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony and that positive numbers reported before the 2024 election were manipulated to make him look bad.

Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have scattered across the country in a last-ditch effort to prevent Republicans from adopting U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants in place before the 2026 midterm elections.

Republican Nate Morris warmed up a recent crowd of party faithful by gushing about President Donald Trump and recounting his own life’s journey.

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina says she plans to start a statewide series of town halls this week in Myrtle Beach now that she's running for governor.

Democrats are out of power in Washington but hold 23 governors' seats, including in five of the seven presidential battlegrounds Donald Trump swept last year.

Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley has announced his 2026 Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.

Texas Democrats have prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump.

Texas Democrats have left the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

The Justice Department is ramping up an effort to get election data from the states.

An independent watchdog agency responsible for enforcing a law against partisan political activity by federal employees has opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who brought two criminal cases against then-candidate Donald Trump before his election to the White House last year.

Democrats are arguing that a Republican plan for redrawing districts in Texas to create more winnable U.S. House seats for the GOP is an attack on Black and Hispanic voters.

Detroit voters will take a key step toward choosing a new mayor in the municipal primary on Tuesday, when nine candidates will appear on the ballot in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper jumped into the race for that state’s newly open seat with a vow to address voters’ persistent concerns about making ends meet.

The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has approved constitutional changes to allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend terms to six years.

The race to become California’s next governor has kicked into a new gear.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley has launched his campaign for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat.

U.S. fashion retailer American Eagle Outfitters wanted to make a splash with its new advertising campaign starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney.

A New York businesswoman has pleaded guilty to ripping off over $30 million from foreign investors and funneling some of the stolen funds to U.S. political campaigns.

U.S. Rep. Danny Davis won’t seek reelection next year after 15 terms in office.

The Secretary of the Army has directed the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to review its hiring practices and rescind the appointment of a newly announced hire who led the nation's cybersecurity agency under President Joe Biden.

The agency responsible for President Trump's mass deportations agenda is launching a recruiting campaign.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she will not run for California governor next year, leaving open the possibility that she could mount a third run for the White House in 2028.

A Senate committee has advanced the nomination of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline a major Republican event in South Carolina.

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara says he will seek a fourth term leading the West African nation, which is due to hold elections in October.

A chief architect of Project 2025 is launching a Republican primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.

Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will run for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, giving Democrats a proven statewide winner in an open-seat race that is expected to be one of the most competitive 2026 contests.

Georgia Republican Mike Collins is joining the GOP field to challenge Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff in 2026.

Syria plans to hold parliamentary elections in September, according to the head of the election organizing body.

Redistricting usually happens after the once-a-decade population count by the U.S. Census Bureau or in response to a court ruling.

Taiwanese voters have rejected a bid to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers from the opposition Nationalist Party in a recall election.

Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez is the first Democrat to officially enter the race for governor.

Republican congressman Ralph Norman is entering South Carolina's 2026 governor's race.

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King has dropped out of the 2026 Republican race for the U.S. Senate.

The Trump administration’s milestone settlement with Columbia promises to bring stability to a university embroiled in scrutiny.

Michael Whatley, chairman of the national Republican Party, plans to run for an open Senate seat in North Carolina in 2026, with the blessing of President Donald Trump, after Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara, passed on the seat.

A longtime critic of voting machines and local government has been charged with arson for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail-like device into an office holding voting equipment in his Colorado mountain community.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room and targeted President Donald Trump’s political enemies.

President Donald Trump is urging House members in competitive seats to stay put and not run in other races.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to remain in power to oversee the implementation of a new Japan-U.S. tariff agreement.

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.

Hunter Biden has criticized prominent Democrats and party advisers in a recent interview.

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.

Republicans can't stop talking about former President Joe Biden.

U.S. stock indexes inched to more records to kick off a week full of profit updates from big U.S. companies.

Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson has entered the 2026 race for governor as the Republican primary field gets more crowded.

Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session that starts Monday.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition has lost its majority in the upper house of parliament.

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami have held a major rally in Dhaka.

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.

Former Missouri congressman Billy Long was ceremonially sworn in as IRS commissioner on Friday.

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.

Britain has announced plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national election.

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.

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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.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced he will run for New York City mayor as an independent candidate.

The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.

Cameroon's 92-year-old president, Paul Biya, announces he will seek an eighth term in October's elections.

Debate over President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package is over on Capitol Hill.

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.

Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders.

Voters in southeast Washington, D.

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.