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Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre — once heavily favored in the polls to become the next prime minister — not only lost to Liberal Mark Carney in Monday’s election, but he appears to have lost the parliamentary seat he has held for 21 years at press time.

Canadian voters handed the nation’s center-right Conservative Party a historic loss on Monday night in an election that, three months ago, the party was winning by over 25 points.

Polls opened in Canada on Monday morning after a turbulent election season in which the ruling Liberals have attempted to make President Donald Trump the top issue of the race, while the Conservatives offer a departure from what they call the “lost Liberal decade.”

President Donald Trump returned to needling former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau” and talked about annexing Canada in his “100 Days” interview with Time magazine, which was posted online Friday.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” House Republican Conference Assistant Whip Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) stated that while nothing has actually changed in terms of the balance of power as a result of Tuesday’s election, cutting government waste, fraud, and abuse

President Donald Trump lauded the passage of an amendment in Wisconsin on Tuesday that will enshrine voter ID into the state constitution.

Democrat-aligned Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford secured a victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday against Trump-backed Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge and former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, the Associated Press projected.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday is considered the most important race of 2025, with wide-ranging consequences for both the battleground state and the nation. 

President Donald Trump endorsed conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel on Friday during early voting and ahead of the highly consequential election on April 1.

Democrat-aligned Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford has the backing of donors and activists who support transgender insanity and sex changes for children, a political attack advertisement declares.

Democrat-aligned Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford is an “extreme abortion activist, not an impartial judge,” read mailers sent out to Wisconsin voters on Wednesday ahead of the April 1 election.

Democrat-aligned Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford defended during Wednesday night’s debate her decision to give a reduced sentence to a pedophile who repeatedly sexually assaulted a five-year-old girl.

Drag queens are planning to raise money for Democrat Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford on Thursday.

The Constitutional Court of Romania has rejected the appeals of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu against a ban on his candidacy in upcoming elections, a move supporters have claimed is an affront to the democratic process.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke down in tears Sunday during his farewell speech during a Liberal Party conference.

Chaos broke out on the streets of Bucharest on Sunday evening as supporters of former presidential frontrunner Călin Georgescu reacted with rage after Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau barred him from running again following the annulled November elections in which he won the first round of voting.

Democrats view the Wisconsin Supreme Court election as a chance to push policy and redraw legislative maps that could ultimately lose Republicans two U.S. House seats and help Democrats close in on the Republicans’ slim majority. 

Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday rolled out his “Canada First” response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, borrowing Trump’s branding strategy while insisting his tariffs on Canadian goods are “unjustified.”

A complaint was filed against Democrat Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford last week related to a nonprofit’s donor event email touting her winning the April 1 election as a “[c]hance to put two more House seats in play for 2026.”

Democrats view the battle as a chance to push policy and redraw legislative maps that could ultimately lose Republicans two U.S. House seats and help them close in on the Republicans’ slim majority.

The ads, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, are expected to aid conservative candidate Wisconsin Attorney General and Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel.

Democrats view the battle as a chance to push policy and redraw legislative maps that could ultimately lose Republicans two U.S. House seats and help them close in on the Republican’s slim majority.

Wisconsin has a state Supreme Court election on April 1 — a race which could determine not only the fate of the state, but the entire nation if Democrats have their way.

West Australian (WA) independent lawmaker Benjamin Letts Dawkins legally changed his name to “Aussie Trump” this week, a move he described as a protest against “the tyranny and systematic corruption of the Labor government in WA.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, launching both the process of his Liberal Party choosing a new leader and his country electing a new prime minister. 

Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre condemned radical leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Monday that he would relinquish leadership of his country and the Liberal Party, dismissing it as a “trick” for the Liberals to stay in power and continue Trudeau’s policies.

The head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group now running Syria, told Saudi media on Sunday that he expects it could take the jihadists up to three years to write a new constitution and four to hold elections.

The Romanian Constitutional Court on Friday annulled the first round of the presidential election after declassified intelligence documents suggested Russian influence operations gave nationalist candidate Calin Georgescu his surprising victory.

A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists and former activists to up to 10 years in prison, concluding the largest case brought to date under the authoritarian “national security law” imposed by Beijing to crush the 2019 pro-democracy movement.

Virginia Democrats have begun the process of trying to put a proposed amendment before voters that would enshrine a right to abortion into the state constitution.

Germany will elect its next government seven months early as the precarious “progressive coalition” of left-wing and centrists collapsed.

Several states passed measures to bar noncitizens from voting as Donald Trump campaigned successfully for curbs on migration.

Unhappy members of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party lashed out at him during a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday.

Canadian lawmakers from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party are pressuring him to step down, even though he has survived two recent confidence votes.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it was filing a lawsuit against the “State of Virginia, Virginia State Board of Elections and Virginia Commissioner of Elections” over the state’s enforcement of a 2006 law, removing non-citizens from voter lists.

Former defense minister Ishiba Shigeru won his bid for leadership of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday, all but guaranteeing he will become the next prime minister.