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 country’s junta to run for the presidency.

As Guinea reaches the final days ahead of the key referendum which could open the door for the coup leader to run for president, Conakry, its capital city, is buzzing with campaign events.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says he’s running for governor in 2026.

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.

A U.N. commission reports that billions in public funds have been stolen in South Sudan over the past decade.

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.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to over 27 years in prison for attempting a coup.

Nepal’s president has appointed former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as interim prime minister.

Belarus has freed 52 political prisoners as part of a deal brokered by the United States.

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 Argentina’s 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.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he will step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July’s 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.

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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.

President Donald Trump’s administration says it's looking at ways the federal government can assume operation of the 9/11 memorial in New York City.

Democrats and Republicans are testing dueling playbooks in fall elections that will decide the leadership of Virginia and New Jersey — and perhaps a new direction for the parties heading into next year’s midterms.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said again that he won’t end his reelection campaign.

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 state’s 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.

Japan’s 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.

Veteran Thai politician Anutin Charnvirakul has been elected prime minister in a parliamentary vote.

President Donald Trump says he thinks Democrat Zohran Mamdani is likely to become New York City’s 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.

Argentina’s senate has dealt a blow to President Javier Milei’s 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 isn’t dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government.

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A judge in Utah has ruled that the state must proceed right away with redrawing the state's congressional districts.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has secured a third term following a tight race on an island shaken by corruption, inequity and economic concerns.

President Donald Trump is suggesting that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection next year.

Rudy Giuliani says he experienced the most pain he'd ever felt when he was in a highway car crash last weekend.

Curtis Sliwa is the bombastic creator of New York City’s Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol group who lost his last election battle with Mayor Eric Adams by almost 40 percentage points.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mayor Paige Cognetti is announcing a bid for Congress.

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 Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Thousands of voters in Guyana have participated in what many say is the South American country’s 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 “major problem” 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.

Missouri’s Republican governor is calling a special legislative session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts.

A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court says she will not seek reelection, creating an open race for a seat on the court that’s controlled 4-3 by liberals.

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 Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa.

The United States is boosting its maritime force near Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels.

Former Major League Baseball star Mark Teixeira is seeking the Republican nomination for a House seat in Texas.

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 country’s disability agency.

A new analysis by The Associated Press shows President Donald Trump’s recent focus on crime in Washington and other big cities came as views of his handling of immigration had been souring.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t 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 party’s 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.

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 “imaginary and unfounded” premise.

The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put in place by voters to ensure districts aren’t drawn to favor any party.

Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was once seen as a sideshow in Bolivia’s presidential races, his pleas for free markets and small government falling on deaf ears in a country dominated by leftism.

Donald Trump ran on a promise to use the powers of the government for revenge against those he believed wronged him.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress.

Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016.

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 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.

Gavin Newsom is having a moment.

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.

The Texas Senate has given final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.

President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.

A $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage after the 2020 presidential election focuses on the roles of hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs in spreading false stories about fraud in Democrat Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump.

Before his return to the White House this year, President Donald Trump faced a slew of criminal charges and lawsuits that threatened his finances and freedom.

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia.

Iowa’s state party officials say it was a mistake that the party’s 2024 nominating calendar forced them to ditch the five-decade, first-in-the-nation caucus where community members publicly signal their support for a candidate.