A special election in Michigan on Tuesday could decide whether Democrats maintain their slim majority in the state Senate for the final months of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s term WASHINGTON --

Vance gets a chance to woo Iowa GOP voters ahead of 2028 in a campaign stop with congressman FILE - Vice President JD Vance speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, April 23, 2026, in Washington

Indiana Republican state lawmakers who broke with President Donald Trump over his call to redraw the state’s congressional district lines are facing primary challengers who are backed by Trump and nat

President Donald Trump’s campaign to politically punish Republicans who stand in his way moves through Indiana on Tuesday night, when seven state senators face Trump-backed primary challengers Trump'

Armenia hosts the first European Union summit in Yerevan on Tuesday, marking a deepening of ties that's been years in the making Armenia hosts a historic EU summit as it charts a course away from Rus

While all eyes are on the Middle East and the risk of a global recession, a possible scenario with significant downside risk for the UK economy after the next general election is building: the impact

Labour should not be “doomscrolling” through leaders like the Conservatives, the communities secretary, Steve Reed, has said, urging MPs not to move against Keir Starmer after the May elections. MPs

From 51m ago 05.41 EDT Starmer says universities will be expected to publish audit of of antisemitism on campus, and how it's being tackled Keir Starmer has said that universities will now be expected

DES MOINES, Iowa — Vice President JD Vance lands here Tuesday in an effort to boost the re-election campaign of Rep. Zach Nunn — the latest development that underscores Republicans’ midterm jitters in

President Donald Trump's effort to defeat Republicans who have opposed key priorities turns Tuesday to Indiana's state Senate primaries, in which he and his allies are trying to unseat seven GOP state

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security immigration leaders disagreed so vehemently over how to accomplish President Donald Trump’s goal of deporting 1 million people during his first year back in office that

The note was allegedly from Epstein’s unsuccessful suicide attempt in 2019. Undated pictures of Jeffrey Epstein provided by the US Department of Justice, January 30, 2026. Undated pictures of Jeffre

 Donald Trump has called on all presidential candidates to take a cognitive test, as he faces questions on his own capacity to do the job. Speaking today, Trump said he was the only president to tak

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Voters in the home counties will “regret it for a long time” if they do not back the Liberal Democrats and wake up to a Reform-led council, Ed Davey has said. The Lib Dems leader has identified five

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Trump’s version of the American Dream says the winners are being stolen from: by immigrants and globalists, and by institutions that no longer serve the people who built them. His opponents mostly arg

Starmer to host Downing Street summit to address antisemitism Sir Keir Starmer will host senior business, culture and policing figures in Downing Street on Tuesday as part of coordinated efforts to ta

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday, in granting an unusual request made by Louisiana Republicans, allowed last week's major voting rights ruling to go into effect immediately. Subscribe to read

Jenna Ellis Says Religious Freedom Only Applies To Christians During Friday's episode of her "Jenna Ellis In The Morning" radio program, former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis declared that only

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Florida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state cons

Corporate America witnessed the first major casualty of Donald Trump’s Iran war oil shock this weekend, with the shuttering of Spirit Airlines — the steerage-in-the-sky budget carrier that pioneered t

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Keir Starmer will call for a whole-of-society response to rising antisemitism on Tuesday, saying that it is not enough simply to condemn the scourge, but people “must show it” through their actions to

Cabinet ministers have warned mutinous Labour MPs that any attempt to oust Keir Starmer after a potentially disastrous set of election results this week would unleash chaos for the party that would no