The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades is putting pressure on Beijing’s governance system in the city.

The Supreme Court is allowing the challenged Texas congressional redistricting plan to be used in next year’s election, despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race.

A special congressional election in Tennessee this week highlights the power and consequences of partisan gerrymandering.

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is staying in California.

Florida is poised to join the wave of states debating how they might reshape congressional voting districts, as political parties grapple for an edge in next year’s midterm elections.

Republican Matt Van Epps of Tennessee has been sworn as the newest House member.

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations.

Florida is poised to join the wave of states debating how they might reshape congressional voting districts, as political parties grapple for an edge in next year’s midterm elections.

Florida is poised to join the wave of states debating how they might reshape congressional voting districts, as political parties grapple for an edge in next year’s midterm elections.

In heavily Democratic California, one prominent Republican U.S. House member is considering an audacious maneuver — moving to Texas to run for Congress.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is embracing his love for travel in his final month in office.

Republicans have held onto a conservative U.S. House district in Tennessee.

A resistance group in Myanmar has reportedly detained a candidate for the election scheduled for later this month.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has signed his signature crime legislation, his office announced Tuesday.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing six more states in its ongoing campaign to obtain voter data and other election information.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner has announced he’ll seek reelection in what will be a critical race for a narrowly divided Senate.

Haiti’s transitional presidential council has adopted an electoral law in the latest step toward holding a general election for the first time in nearly a decade.

A Democrat who served four years as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and narrowly lost a 2022 U.S. Senate bid is running for governor in the battleground state.

James Solomon has been elected mayor of Jersey City, thwarting former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback.

Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House.

Four Republican-led states have settled lawsuits with the federal government over access to voter citizenship data.

President Donald Trump and top Republicans are making a last-ditch push to prevent embarrassment in a hotly contested Tennessee special election for Congress.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the “2020 election was rigged.”.

Voters in New Jersey’s second-largest city will get another chance to elect a new mayor Tuesday in a runoff election.

Less than a month after Democrats scored big victories in the Nov. 4 general election, voters in a heavily Republican Tennessee congressional district will fill a vacant seat Tuesday in the closely divided U.S. House.

With votes from about 57% of polling places counted in Honduras, preliminary and partial results showed conservative candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla leading the presidential contest early Monday and the governing party trailing.

Poll workers have begun tallying Hondurans’ votes as the country moves to elect a new president only days after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened in a close race with an endorsement of one candidate and announced he would pardon a former president.

Hondurans are buzzing about U.S. President Donald Trump's recent involvement in their presidential election.

The African Union has suspended Guinea-Bissau following a military coup, emphasizing its zero tolerance for unconstitutional changes in government.

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister after seizing power following disputed elections.

Honduras’ homicide and unemployment rates have both improved during the past four years under outgoing President Xiomara Castro.

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a disputed presidential election and led to deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló departing for neighboring Senegal.

Excited families are greeting relatives released from Myanmar’s Insein Prison as part of a mass amnesty granted by the country’s military rulers ahead of next month’s election.

Colorado doesn’t plan to transfer former county clerk Tina Peters to federal custody following a request from the Trump Administration to move her out of a state prison.

Federal judges have allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map designed to give Republicans an additional U.S. House seat.

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.

A judge has dismissed the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others after the prosecutor who took over the case said he would not pursue the charges.

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appeared on state television to say they have seized power in the country following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser says she will not be seeking re-election next year.

President Donald Trump brought insults and grievances to the traditional Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House.

Rights groups have criticized the Trump administration's decision to end deportation protections for Myanmar citizens.

Britain’s Labour Party government is set to deliver a high-stakes budget aimed at fixing public finances and boosting economic growth.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's decision to resign from the House after publicly disagreeing with former President Donald Trump has surprised some in Georgia.

As the first year of President Donald Trump's second term comes to a close, two new polls from the Pew Research Center find that Hispanic adults are increasingly unhappy with the way his administration is handling the economy and immigration, issues that were key for voters during last year’s election.

Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones has announced his candidacy for governor of Alabama in 2026.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces a crucial week of diplomacy, testing his ability to stand his ground while demonstrating to the United States that he is willing to compromise.

Keisha Lance Bottoms is bidding to become the first former Atlanta mayor to be elected governor of Georgia.

The race for California governor features former presidential wannabes, a county sheriff, two women who could become the first female to hold the office, current and former House members and at least one billionaire.

The federal agency that oversees the security of election systems was largely absent from planning before elections this month in several states.

President Emmanuel Macron's promise to win over far-right voters in France is faltering.

Guinea-Bissau has begun counting votes as President Umaro Sissoco Embaló seeks a second term.

President Donald Trump’s chaotic political universe has at least one consistent law that rises above any other: The president has no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.

As Chileans prepare to vote in a presidential runoff between a communist and a hard-right veteran politician, the man who has emerged as the election’s biggest power broker has refused to support either candidate.

There was a time when presidential hopefuls were coy about their ambitions.

President Donald Trump is resurfacing his argument that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn’t “have the cards” to continue on the battlefield.

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has announced she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026.

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.

President Donald Trump and New York's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani come from opposite parties and have spent months sniping at each other.

Democratic Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii predicts Americans will want a peacemaking leader by 2028.

A special election in Tennessee has gained national attention in a heavily Republican district.

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who served as a House manager in President Donald Trump’s 2021 impeachment trial, has launched his bid for California governor.

Federal judges have upheld several U.S. House districts drawn by North Carolina Republicans in 2023.

New York Rep. Nydia Velázquez — a trailblazer known by the nickname “La Luchadora,” or the fighter — announced that she will retire next year after more than three decades in Congress.

Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

While President Donald Trump has struggled to settle on a way to address Americans’ concerns about high costs, Vice President JD Vance on Thursday offered a more direct and empathetic message, saying, “We hear you” and “there’s a lot more work to do.”.

In attendance at former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral were pews full of former presidents and vice presidents — but neither of the men occupying those offices today.

President Donald Trump is once more targeting former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, and Trump is picking a political fight before next year’s elections.

Officials say two Roman Catholic priests imprisoned on what human rights officials said were politically related charges were freed from prison following talks with the Vatican.

Washington National Cathedral hosted a bipartisan show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarizing vice president who became an acidic scold of fellow Republican President Donald Trump.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has restored a nonpartisan caretaker government system for elections but says it won’t apply to the polls being held early next year.

The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus.

Former president Joe Biden plans to attend Thursday’s memorial service for former vice president Dick Cheney at the Washington National Cathedral.

The House has voted to repeal part of a new law that lets senators sue the federal government for millions of dollars if their personal or office data is accessed without their knowledge.

Billionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer is running for California governor as a Democrat.

Kosovo lawmakers have failed to elect a new government meaning that the country is heading for an early election.

New York City's mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, has quickly become a target of conservative media figures.

Ten Democratic secretaries of state are asking the Trump administration to provide more information about its efforts to seek voter registration data.

President Donald Trump continues to call on Indiana lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional boundaries, even as state senators do not have enough votes to do so.

A panel of three federal judges has blocked Texas from using a new congressional map that Republicans drew in hopes of picking up five U.S. House seats.

A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been sentenced to three years’ probation, including a year of home confinement, for soliciting illegal campaign contributions for Adams’ first campaign.

Chileans face perhaps the starkest choice in the history of their country’s young democracy when they vote next month in a presidential runoff between hard-right José Antonio Kast and communist Jeannette Jara.

President Donald Trump isn't ruling out military action against Venezuela despite bringing up potential diplomatic talks with its leader, Nicolás Maduro.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he hopes to meet with President Donald Trump to find ways the political polar opposites can work together on the central focus of his winning campaign: affordability.

President Donald Trump's political dominance is showing cracks as he faces challenges on affordability and the Jeffrey Epstein case.

A new analysis of consumer data shows that more people in the United States are falling behind on their utility bills.

In Chile, a hard-right former lawmaker and admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump is leading in the presidential runoff.

Hungary is gearing up for a heated political battle as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces an unprecedented challenge from his opponent, Péter Magyar.

Many Republican leaders insist there's no problem with the GOP's policies, the party's message or President Donald Trump’s leadership, despite big losses in this month's elections.

Chile is bracing for a tense presidential runoff after a first-round vote on Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative veteran politician, sharply polarizing the country between the political left and right.

President Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene have fallen out in a public feud.

Climate choices aren’t just individual actions.

President Donald Trump has publicly ended his support for Rep_ Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “Wacky Marjorie” and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in the next midterms “if the right person runs.”.

Sen. Cory Booker is back in New Hampshire, home to two Democrats who broke ranks with their party to end the government shutdown.

President Donald Trump has announced the removal of U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and other commodities.

The leader of the Indiana state Senate, a Republican, has said that his chamber will no longer meet in December as planned to vote on redistricting, citing lack of support from his members.

The Central African Republic’s top court has cleared President Faustin Archange Touadera to run in December’s election.

A longtime Georgia prosecutor has announced that he will take over the state's election interference case against President Donald Trump and others.

The rush to redraw America's congressional maps has put a historically Black neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and a mostly white farming community 100 miles away in the same district.