"You mean the 'Opportunity Society' and 'We're not going back' didn't stir the hearts of people living paycheck to paycheck, who can't afford healthcare, and who each month are squeezed through rising prices and inflation?

The U.S. Supreme Court passed up a chance to give politicians more power over how federal elections are conducted, declining on Friday to hear a Republican challenge to a Pennsylvania judicial decision requiring the counting of provisional ballots cast by voters who make mistakes on their mail-in ballots.

Democratic state attorneys general are seeking to block President Donald Trump’s proposal for an overhaul of U.S. elections in a case that tests a constitutional bedrock — the separation of powers.

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean state media on Thursday reported for the first time on the outcome of South Korea's presidential election held earlier this week. Lee Jae-myung, the candidate of the Democratic Party,

South Koreans are voting in a snap presidential election, seeking to restore stability after six months of turmoil sparked by a shock martial law.

After months of political turmoil, South Korea will elect a new president Tuesday to succeed conservative Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted over his brief but shocking imposition of martial law.

Both Lee and conservative Kim pledged change for a country deeply scarred by a shock martial law briefly imposed by former leader Yoon Suk Yeol.

A vote seen as a test of the power of populist nationalism in Europe was too close to call, with exit polls putting the two contenders neck and neck.

Texas will no longer have a three-day gap between the end of early voting and Election Day under a bill that is heading to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Karol Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian and amateur boxer, is new to politics and ran as an independent but was backed by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.

A historian and populist firebrand who boasted about his brawls with soccer hooligans has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, in a political upset that could torpedo the centrist government’s efforts to unspool the legacy of authoritarianism in the country.

Foreign inflows into South Korean stocks this week hit the highest since March 2024, despite a shortened trading week, as Tuesday’s presidential election ushered in an end to a months-long political leadership vacuum.