A bipartisan warning came out of a House committee Tuesday that the U.S. election system remains vulnerable to attacks from Russia and other foreign adversaries as the 2020 elections nears.
Read moreVoting rights advocates, including former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, urged the House of Representatives on Tuesday to pass legislation restoring provisions of the Voting Rights Act struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013.
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Boris Johnson embarked on a media blitz Tuesday, hoping to shift the subject away from allegations of domestic abuse and back to Britain’s pending departure from the European Union.
Read moreNew York City’s most ethnically diverse borough, the landing point for and home to many of the city’s immigrants, will head to the polls Tuesday for a primary that will help decide whether their next top prosecutor will target U.S. immigration officials who violate civil rights.
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Senator Bernie Sanders, considered a frontrunner in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential race, announced a plan Monday to cancel all existing student loan debt and send everyone to college.
Read moreSpeaking Thursday afternoon in Montgomery, former judge Roy Moore, twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court, announced that he will once again run in 2020 for a seat in the U.S. Senate after losing a special election two years ago when several women accused him of decades-old sexual misconduct.
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Boris Johnson, a 55-year-old former mayor of London and a reviled Tory party figure in European political circles, tightened his grip Thursday on becoming the next British prime minister.
Read moreThe race to become Britain’s next prime minister is down to the final four on Wednesday, as Boris Johnson stretched his lead among Conservative lawmakers and upstart Rory Stewart was eliminated from the contest.
Read moreA poll released Tuesday shows former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump slipping in three key Midwestern battleground states.
Read moreThe similarities are striking. They were both born in New York. They both have colorful hair styles and handsome girths. Both have led outrageous private lives. Both have fascinating, and international, biographies. Both are accused of being charlatans. Both come from privilege and are ruthlessly ambitious. Both came to prominence as liberals, libertines and TV personalities.
Read moreFour city council members in a Detroit suburb lost their spots on the ballot because of an incorrect interpretation of term limits, their supporters claim in a federal lawsuit filed over the weekend.
Read moreFlexing his muscle as the former head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro shifted his focus Monday to a familiar issue: housing challenges facing Americans that he says have worsened under President Donald Trump.
Read moreHaving been elected president of Latvia on May 29, Judge Egils Levits tendered his resignation Monday from the European Court of Justice.
Read moreSenator Amy Klobuchar and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg pitched their bid for office before a sold out crowd of Virginia Democrats Saturday night, just a week and a half before the first debates take place.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Julian Castro put on his hat as former head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in a visit Friday to a mobile home park where residents were recently stunned by rent increases by the new out-of-state owners.
Read moreBetsy Sweet, a progressive Democrat who ran for governor of Maine last year, has announced her bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.
Read morePresident Donald Trump says if a foreign power were offering dirt on his 2020 opponent, he’d be open to accepting it and would have no obligation to call in the FBI.
Read morePromising to undo what he calls an assault on LGBTQ rights under the Trump administration, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke rolled out a new plan Wednesday to strengthen federal protections for gay and transgender people in the United States that calls for the reversal of several Trump policies, including the transgender troop ban.
Read moreWhile national headlines may point to the re-election of the state’s most notorious legislators, Virginia voters made a number of surprising choices in Tuesday’s primary election that some say paved the way for Democrats to take full control over the once deeply red state.
Read moreSeeking to rebut President Trump’s attempts to cast him and Democrats as too liberal, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to give a speech Wednesday on democratic socialism, the economic philosophy that has guided his political career.
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