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Michigan Democrats are ending their final days in control of the state government bogged down with disunity and inaction.
Democrats in North Carolina were celebrating big wins in the swing state after the November election, including victories for governor and other top statewide offices.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says Democrats should think less about partisan politics and more about meeting people’s needs.
South Korea’s acting leader has vowed to convey to the world that things are back to normal following parliament’s impeachment of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.
South Korea’s opposition leader has offered to work with the government to ease the political tumult, a day after the opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol over a short-lived attempt to impose martial law.
South Korea’s parliament voted to impeach embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree this month, a shocking stunt that paralyzed the country’s politics, halted foreign policy and spooked financial markets.
South Korea’s president has defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied rebellion charges, vowing to “fight to the end” in response to attempts to impeach him and intensifying investigations into last week’s dramatic move.
South Korea’s previous defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week’s martial law declaration.
South Korea’s Justice Ministry has imposed an overseas travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol as authorities investigate allegations of rebellion and other charges in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law last week.
A short-lived martial law decree by South Korea's leader last week raised worries about budding authoritarianism around the world.
South Korean prosecutors have detained a former defense minister who allegedly recommended last week’s brief but stunning martial law imposition to President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is running to become the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.
South Korea’s opposition leader has questioned the state of mind of President Yoon Suk Yeol and vowed to make all-out efforts to get him impeached as soon as possible.
In the groundswell of fury and defiance that erupted among South Koreans after their president declared martial law, it was perhaps the iconic moment.
South Korea’s president has replaced his defense minister as opposition parties moved to impeach both men over the stunning-but-brief imposition of martial law that brought armed troops into Seoul streets.
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s stunning martial law declaration lasted just hours but has cast doubt on his ability to govern for the remaining 2 1/2 years of his term and whether he will abide by democratic principles.
It may seem that the wild scenes in Seoul, with hundreds of armed troops and frantic lawmakers storming South Korea's parliament building after the president suddenly declared martial law, came out of nowhere.
South Korea’s opposition parties moved to impeach the president over the shocking and short-lived declaration of martial law that drew heavily armed troops to encircle parliament.
A South Korean National Assembly member has called for a moratorium on wood pellet imports from Indonesia and an investigation into South Korea’s biomass use after government data and satellite analysis linked the country’s biomass imports to deforestation in Indonesia.
Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni suffered election setbacks in two regions as the opposition Democratic party won a tight race in the central Umbria region and deepened its control of the traditional left-leaning stronghold of Emilia-Romagna.
Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence.
Joe Biden’s name wasn’t on the ballot, but history will likely remember Vice President Kamala Harris’ resounding defeat as his loss, too.
The former president captured 55% of Latino voters in the state, according to exit polls. He also won 14 out of the 18 counties within 20 miles of the border, a number that doubled his 2020 performance in the Latino-majority region.
Democrats spent billions of dollars warning American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy, that his economic policies would benefit only his wealthy friends, that he was literally a fascist.
Republican and Democratic voters in Maryland largely agree on one thing: the state's U.S. Senate race between Republican Larry Hogan and Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has unusually high stakes this year.
More than a month before the election, Jim Justice declared victory in his U.S. Senate race in deep red West Virginia.
An Arizona prosecutor says the man arrested in the three-time shooting of a Democratic campaign office had more than 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home.
Pennsylvania has the biggest Jewish population of any swing state, and any shift could have enormous implications in a state decided by narrow margins the past two presidential elections.
Vice President Kamala Harris is getting ready for her first campaign appearances with Barack and Michelle Obama this month in Georgia and Michigan.
The same candidates will be running in Texas’ 15th and 34th Congressional Districts, though the presidential and Senate races could mix things up.
A behind-the-scenes battle is underway between Democrats and Republicans for supermajority control of state legislatures across the country.
Opposition supporters in Albania have protested again and demanded that the government be replaced by a technocratic caretaker Cabinet before next year’s parliamentary election.
Democrats and civil rights groups are asking election officials in the states ravaged by Hurricane Helene to give voters more time to register for the Nov. 5 presidential election.
Conservative Christian churches in California and prominent figures around the United States like activist Charlie Kirk are urging congregations to get involved in ballot gathering or ballot harvesting.
Georgia's Supreme Court says presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz aren't qualified to be on the state's ballots and votes for them should not count.
Authorities are analyzing evidence collected from a Democratic campaign office in a suburban strip mall in Arizona that has twice been shot at over the last week.
Georgia Supreme Court justices are expressing skepticism that votes for presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz should count.
In suburban Philadelphia's Bucks County, a critical area in a vital state, the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is producing hard thinking about what to do in November.
Many Palestinian Americans, in recent months, have been reeling from the double blow of the rising Palestinian death toll in Gaza and their own government’s support for Israel in the war against Hamas.
The Houston Democrat lost her seat amid backlash from primary voters over her support for a GOP bill barring transition-related care for minors.
The state and national Democratic parties are suing to block two recent rules adopted by Georgia's State Election Board.
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential bid, furthering her shift away from the party she sought to represent in the presidential race four years ago.
Chicago has a longstanding tradition of protest — and college student YM Masood has been immersed in it in recent months, including at the Democratic National Convention.
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the war in Gaza in her convention speech, attempting to defuse one of the most divisive issues within the Democratic Party on the biggest political stage of her life.
If you think you’re seeing a lot of women wearing white during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, you don’t need to adjust your television set.
The Democratic National Convention’s third night showcased a familiar former president in Bill Clinton and introduced more Americans to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton headlined the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party’s choreographed rollout of a new candidate, Kamala Harris, and her pitch to voters.
Convention roll call votes can be staid and cheesy, but Democrats turned theirs into the ultimate dance party on Tuesday.
Warning of a difficult fight ahead, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have called on the nation to embrace Kamala Harris in urgent messages to the Democratic National Convention that were at times both hopeful and ominous.
The Democratic Party has been riven for months by the war in Gaza, giving rise to a protest movement that threatened President Joe Biden’s electoral coalition.
Presidential conventions can be memorable for floor fights and bloody battles on the streets outside or for scenes that stand out as outlandish or awkward.
The race to succeed the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for the 18th U.S. Congressional District of Texas is intensifying, with several prominent candidates declaring their intentions to run.
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono and Hawaii's incumbent congressional representatives have won their state Democratic Party primary races.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ first campaign stop in Wisconsin with her new running mate this week put her in a critical part of a swing state.
It’s a 2024 election battleground where millions of dollars are being spent and some of the biggest names in American politics are sure to pop up.
Gov. Tim Walz and his fellow Democrats have enacted big changes in the two years that they’ve had full control of the Minnesota Legislature, from expansions of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights to initiatives aimed at making life easier for families.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ choice to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate disappointed fans of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was one of Harris’ finalists for the job and seen as someone who could help Democrats win a key swing state and make history by electing the first Jewish vice president.
Democrats have unified with remarkable speed behind Vice President Kamala Harris as she’s taken over the top of the party’s ticket.
The race to succeed the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for the 18th U.S. Congressional District of Texas is intensifying, with several prominent candidates declaring their intentions to run.
Vice President Kamala Harris has put a charge in Wisconsin's most powerful Democratic stronghold, Dane County, where enthusiasm and volunteer support for President Joe Biden had been slipping.
Congressional Democrats in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and beyond are seeing an outpouring of volunteers to help Vice President Kamala Harris and counter Republican Donald Trump.
Vice President Kamala Harris is putting her own stamp on the campaign that she inherited from President Joe Biden.
Kamala Harris is already facing a wave of Republican-backed attack ads questioning her leadership, her progressive record and what she knew about President Joe Biden’s decline.
At least three Democrats are considering bids for the Houston-area seat. But Texas Democratic officials — not voters — will decide who will be on the November ballot.
Delegates to the Democratic National Convention are rallying behind Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's new presidential candidates.
As many people in the city mourn the loss, they're waiting to learn who's going to take her spot in Congress to explain the next steps of finding a new candidate.
If you’re trying to get up to speed on Vice President Kamala Harris’ swift emergence as Democrats’ possible nominee this fall, you really need to know your memes.
When President Joe Biden told America that he was pulling out of the 2024 Presidential election race, he also endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the same breath.
The Congressional Black Caucus has become a bedrock of support for President Joe Biden as he faces calls from congressional Democrats to stand down as the party's presidential nominee in November.
As President Joe Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, most Democrats think his vice president would make a good president herself.
President Joe Biden insists that only “the Lord Almighty” can convince him to quit the presidential race.
President Joe Biden will shift this week from focusing on campaigning for reelection to hosting a NATO summit.
Younger Mongolians helped deliver a setback to the ruling party in last week’s parliamentary elections after three decades of democracy but it’s unclear if the country is headed for a major changes.
A South Korean court says a man who stabbed the country's opposition leader in the neck earlier this year has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The governing Mongolian People’s Party has won a slim majority in the country’s parliament, with the opposition Democratic Party making major gains in elections.
A divided North Carolina election board has blocked for now the official party recognition of political groups that collected signatures and want Robert F.
President Joe Biden and his allies are trying to replicate their success with suburban women, who helped the Democrat beat Donald Trump in swing states like Pennsylvania four years ago.
North Carolina is one of a handful of tightly contested states that could determine this year's presidential election.
