Following the fourth election loss for Democrats running for seats in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is defiant in her determination to hold onto the power she wields as Minority Leader — even as pundits and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle assert that her days are numbered.
Under the headline “Rosen and Pelosi BFFs,’ the National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a warning to Jacky Rosen, the woman who hopes to unseat Republican Senator Dean Heller in Nevada, citing her ongoing relationship with embattled House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
In a speech to graduating cadets of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is loyal to the ayatollahs rather than the secular government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened harsh consequences for protesters who disrupt the presidential election in two weeks.
Guam must be nostalgic for the Jim Crow South. A federal court has ruled against its unfair voting practices. The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a warning letter demanding that it end its biased housing policies.
A growing list of Democrat challengers have already announced campaigns to replace first-term Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner, and now a fifth candidate has stepped forward.
In the liberal stronghold of California, being anti-Trump is a fad among nervous Republicans, and even retired Democrats re-enter the field have seen the value in championing anti-Trump sentiment as a way to boost themselves in the polls.
Rafael Correa, the socialist President of Ecuador, is threatening to use an obscure federal rule to dissolve both the executive and the legislature should pro-freedom center-right candidate Guillermo Lasso win the nation’s presidency in an April run-off vote.
The UK Independence Party is on track to win a decisive victory in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election, polling six points ahead of its main rival, the Labour Party.
The Supreme Court has stayed an order by a lower federal court which had directed North Carolina’s government to hold new state elections.
TEL AVIV – Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid called Saturday for Israel to make the Palestinians “disappear” by building a “high wall,” and added that he is the only viable alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanians began voting Sunday in a parliamentary election a year after a massive anti-corruption drive forced the last Socialist prime minister from power. The country of about 19 million is one of the poorest in the
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Polls opened Sunday in Macedonia for a general election called two years early as part of a Western-brokered agreement to end a paralyzing political crisis. The crisis began after the opposition accused the conservative government of
TEL AVIV — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was re-elected to lead the Fatah party for the next five years at its first congress in seven years on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump might be Jewish, a co-founder of Gaza-based terror group Hamas told Al Jazeera in an interview following the U.S. elections.
So uh, about that “shy” Trump vote? And the “shy” Tory vote. And the “shy” UKIPers. Sorry, but it looks like they don’t really exist. I mean, they exist. But they’re not really shy. They’re just busy. These people, when
Teachers in California are struggling to calm children down about the election of Donald Trump, after failing to teach them about democracy.
While it’s clear that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, it wasn’t clear until Thursday that he carried Arizona. A quarter of Arizona’s vote has not been counted a full day after the election because of mail-in voting, a fraud-prone practice that disserves the nation and should end.
David Bozell, president of ForAmerica, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss the importance of both social media and base turnout in politics today. Bozell contends that only Donald Trump’s popularity across the Republican base has made 2016 competitive for the Republican ticket in 2016.
Some 70,000 convicted felons in Louisiana could see their voting rights restored if a lawsuit against the Secretary of State is successful.
At a Tuesday editorial meeting, CNN president Jeff Zucker exploded on now former CNN contributor Donna Brazile for the “unethical” and “disgusting” secret collusion with the Clinton campaign that got her fired as a CNN contributor, an insider reports.
Every state but a handful have now asked the Department of Homeland Security to help them monitor their electronic voting systems to prevent cyberattacks, the government has reported.
REYKJAVIK, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Support for Iceland’s Pirates in parliamentary elections has turned out lower than anticipated, making it less likely that the anti-establishment party will be part of a new government, early election results showed on Sunday.
After a week of controversial rulings by United States district judge Mark Walker, a President Obama nominee, he has finally decided to rule against a third pro-Democrat initiative put forth by the Florida Democratic Party in regard to voter ID. On Thursday, Walker ruled against allowing rapid verification to take place during early voting that starts Monday in some major counties in Florida.
As a presidential candidate Obama expressed concerns about the validity of U.S. elections. On numerous occasions before being sworn in as commander-in-chief, Obama decried flaws in the American election system, which included voter ID laws, rhetoric from Bush administration Justice Department officials and the agency’s traditional handling of voter fraud investigations.
Earlier on Tuesday, President Barack Obama accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of “whining” for his repeated statements on the upcoming presidential election being “rigged” at a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. “The notion that somehow if
TEL AVIV – The latest leaked emails reveal that Hillary Clinton believes a facade of a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is better than nothing.
Monday the Supreme Court began its 2016 October Term, which will involve up to 80 cases and continue through next June. While there are already some important cases scheduled for argument, one case not yet on the calendar—a Second Amendment case—highlights more than any other the decades-long impact that November’s election will have on the Constitution and the nation.
The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.
TEL AVIV — A new study found that American Jews contribute half of all donations to the Democratic party and most believe being liberal is part and parcel of being Jewish.
Tuesday on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow weighed in on the upcoming down-ballot Election Day contests. While she did not rule out Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton winning the presidency, she seemed to rule out the possibility of the Democrats
Hillary Clinton says that was “there is no doubt in my mind” that “there is something going on” with Putin, suggesting that Russia would try to hack the election.
After the Alternative for Germany (AfD) populist party handed Angela Merkel’s CDU party a humiliating defeat in her home state Sunday, the victors are saying that the Chancellor brought this on herself with her woeful immigrant policy.
the study used data collected from a survey called the “Latino Immigrant National Election Study (LINES)” to look at the behavior of Latino-non citizens during the 2012 presidential election cycle. Jones-Correa and James McCann’s report will be published in the The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. Its findings were first reported by NBC News.
On Tuesday, an Orange County judge, previously censured for allegedly having sex with two women in his chambers, was re-elected by 56 percent of voters.
TEL AVIV – A new poll shows that if Israel held elections held now, the ruling Likud party would remain in power while main opposition party Zionist Union would be reduced to only eight seats in the Knesset.
The Austrian presidential election result has been a triumph for the cause of extremism in Europe. We were continually assured by the left-liberal media how awful it would be if the (supposed) “far-right” candidate Norbert Hofer won. But actually the
Like President Obama, Virginia Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe has just employed executive action to get around his legislature to restore voting rights to convicts.
Incumbent Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has asked the government to fire Ambassador to Japan Yusron Ihza Mahendra for a tweet in which the latter allegedly incited violence against ethnic Chinese people in Indonesia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin officially endorsed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to continue leading the country, but reminded him to respect Russian laws.
The number of incidents of child sacrifice — in which witch doctors abduct children to use their body parts in potions or rituals — in Uganda increased significantly in 2015 as the nation braced for election season, thanks to desperate political candidates seeking any possible advantage at the polls.
