CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is convinced he can win July’s presidential elections without resorting to fraud.

But, if he’s wrong, he also has backup plans to cling on to power, according to people who are in contact with the administration, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive political strategy....Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Donald Trump headlined the state Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday in St. Paul, repeatedly ripping President Joe Biden and promising to fight to turn Minnesota red for the first time since 1972.

"This is an official expansion of the electoral map," Trump said of his appearance in ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered enough signatures.

Advocates for the measure turned in 159,930 valid signatures last month — more than enough to place the ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump recently told a crowd of thousands in Wildwood, New Jersey, the baseless claim that Democrats want to pass an abortion law that enables doctors to “execute” newborns.

“If the radical Democrat extremists get their way,” Trump said during his May 11 rally, “they will have a federal law — an abortion in ...Read more

President Joe Biden erroneously said twice in one week that inflation was at 9% when he took office in 2021.

In reality, inflation stood at 1.4% when Biden assumed the presidency in January of 2021.

Biden made the false statements in interviews with CNN on May 8, and with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday.

“No president has had the run we’ve had...Read more

Americans give Donald Trump the edge over Joe Biden on the economy in poll after poll.

That’s even as the Biden years have been the best time to find work since the 1960s, and the U.S. has bounced back from the pandemic with stronger growth than international peers such as the European Union, United Kingdom and Japan and stronger growth ...Read more

BOSTON — President Biden plans to travel to Boston next week after making a stop in New Hampshire, according to a schedule released Friday morning.

Exact details of what Biden will do in the hub were not immediately available but he is expected to head to New Hampshire on Tuesday. It will be the president’s second trip to the Granite State ...Read more

BOSTON — A Republican-led House committee that has put Harvard University under the microscope is calling out university leadership for not addressing “the explosion of virulent antisemitism” on campus.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee — which grilled the Harvard, MIT and Penn leaders over their handling of antisemitism ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has kicked off a series of actions and public appearances aimed at selling his record to Black voters, a key bloc that typically votes Democratic but could tip the election by staying home in November in big numbers.

“We have a whole group of people out there trying to rewrite history, trying to erase ...Read more

ATLANTA — House Speaker Jon Burns on Friday appointed Janelle King, a media personality and former deputy director of the Georgia Republican Party, to the State Election Board, which investigates allegations of fraud and creates election rules.

King is the co-chairwoman of the conservative political action committee Let’s Win For America ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Former President Donald Trump's visit to Minnesota is energizing Republicans as they prepare to battle for control of the state House in November.

They're hoping Trump's presence on the ticket, and his reported focus on winning Minnesota, will help them pick up House seats in rural areas and possibly some blue-collar suburbs —...Read more

ATLANTA — President Joe Biden plans to meet with Black voters in Atlanta on Saturday ahead of his closely watched commencement speech at Morehouse College, the latest in the Democrat’s escalating efforts to shore up his support with a crucial constituency.

The campaign announced the visit on Friday in tandem with a memo outlining Biden’s ...Read more

The world’s largest election is currently under way in India, with more than 960 million people registered to vote over a period of six weeks. Spearheading the campaign for his Bharatiya Janata Party, incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi is spending that time crisscrossing the country, delivering a message he hopes will result in a ...Read more

Five of the seven states widely expected to be political battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election have populations very much like that of the U.S. overall, in a range of demographic and socioeconomic measures.

For decades, the presidential selection season has begun with the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. But in ...Read more

The assassination attempt against Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has been widely condemned by world leaders as an attack on democracy.

In Slovakia, the violent act similarly saw a unified response from the country’s deeply divided political leaders. But how long this lasts is uncertain. Just as outgoing Slovakian president –...Read more

The last time the Democrats and the Republicans held a White House rematch with the same two contenders was 1956, when Ike beat Adlai Stevenson for the second straight time. Earlier, there were redos with William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan (McKinley won both in 1896 and 1900) and Grover Cleveland vs. Benjamin Harrison (in 1888, Harrison...Read more

ATLANTA — On Sunday, President Joe Biden will step foot on a college campus for the first time since student protests over the war in Gaza at dozens of American universities, including some in Georgia, escalated to encampments, arrests and concerns about rising antisemitism.

Biden’s remarks at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he is ...Read more

Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on at least one thing. I know what you’re probably thinking: a little more consensus might be good for the country. But when we’re talking about both major presidential candidates calling to limit the flow of goods to U.S. consumers, shouldn’t we be worried? Each has been touting trade policies that could ...Read more