Councils to watch in the 2024 local elections

At the local elections on 2 May, 2,660 council seats are being contested across 107 areas, with Labour and the Conservatives defending almost 1,000 seats each. Locally, politicians are campaigning on ... Read More

Why third-party candidates struggle to break through U.S. elections

From Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in 2024, third-party candidates have struggled to break through the two-party system that dominates American politics and elections. Read More

Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he fights criminal charges in the 2020 election case

Donald Trump has lost a bid to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington ... Read More

Election Updates: Democrats retake full control in Michigan; Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania.

Former President Donald J. Trump returned to a courtroom in lower Manhattan on Tuesday for the second day in his sex scandal cover-up case. He has continued to use social media to attack the judge in ... Read More

Election Updates: Biden, competing with Trump to be tough on China, calls for new steel tariffs.

Mr. Biden’s stop in Pittsburgh is part of a three-day swing through Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state that he narrowly won in 2020 and has visited more than any other. The president’s ... Read More

Up close and personal with AI ‘fake news’

Those people are also more confident in their ability to distinguish between real news and AI deepfakes. The top five countries for confidence in that ability (in descending order) are Indonesia, ... Read More

Local elections 2024: Is there an election in my area?

There is no general election but there are council and mayoral elections in some parts of England and Police and Crime Commissioner elections in most areas of England and Wales. There are no scheduled ... Read More

Will Joe Biden and Donald Trump debate this fall? News outlets call on candidates to compete

Former President Donald Trump's campaign has requested debates to be moved up. President Joe Biden's campaign has not yet committed to the current debate schedule. Read More

Pa. election 2024: A complete guide to the primary candidates for attorney general

Pennsylvania voters will elect a new attorney general this November, but Democrats and Republicans first must pick their candidates this spring. The attorney general represents the interests of the ... Read More

Wait … who’s calling for a recount in the tied House election?

Voter Jonathan Padilla, who agreed to pay more than $300,000 for the recount, worked for Liccardo’s 2014 mayoral campaign and as a policy director for the City of San Jose in 2015 and 2016 while ... Read More

New presidential ballot battles in Ohio and Alabama trigger fears election laws are being weaponized

The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio and Alabama notified President Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in recent days that Biden could miss qualifying for their states' ... Read More

How Turkey’s Local Elections Turned Into a Defeat for Erdogan

Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a fresh mandate in parliamentary and presidential elections last summer. But he suffered a stinging defeat against the main opposition party in municipal ... Read More