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Nine individuals were arrested Thursday for their alleged roles in a 2017 voter fraud scheme involving the municipal election in a Texas border town.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said it had blocked an Iran-linked effort to influence US and British politics with posts about charged topics such as immigration and race relations.

A flood of donations has allowed Democratic candidates to outspend GOP candidates by almost 2:1 in 80 competitive districts since July, according to an analysis by the Associated Press. 

Howard Schultz told CBS News in his final interview as Starbucks chairman that his future “perhaps,” will include a run for public office. 

Malcolm Turnbull has been ousted as Australia’s Prime Minister and replaced by his former treasurer Scott Morrison.

ANKARA, Turkey — The winner of Sunday’s presidential election will be the first Turkish head of state to govern with expanded powers after constitutional changes were approved in April 2017.

President Donald Trump reaffirmed his belief that NFL players should stand for the national anthem and not get politics involved on the football field.

Actress Roseanne Barr rebuff her bosses at ABC Entertainment on Tuesday, promising that the next season of her hit sitcom Roseanne will be “even braver” and politically ‘timely’ than the last.

A greater proportion of Europeans believe their society is more divided than 10 years ago than in any other world region, with immigration being the largest source of division in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden.

When country star Toby Keith was asked to weigh in on the gun debate in our country, he politely declined, saying, “I’m not that guy.”

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton believes her experience in politics serves as a model for women around the world.

Hollywood rising star Scott Eastwood says that, unlike his conservative father Clint Eastwood, he does not plan to involve himself in politics.

In his latest campaign ad, Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Gavin Newsom seeks to counter the narrative that he would not be where he is without the help of a very wealthy family friend by playing down his privileged past and focusing on his single mom who “worked three jobs” and “waitressed at night to make ends meet.”

Democrat California Assemblyman Matt Dababneh (D-Woodland Hills), 36, announced his resignation on Friday, just days after he was accused of masturbating in front of a lobbyist at a party in Las Vegas.

Former Pussycat Doll Kaya Jones, who was at the Route 91 country music festival near the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas when a gunman opened fire, told Breitbart News she wished she was armed during the devastating attack that left 58 people and scores more injured.

Even before this catastrophic Labor Day weekend is factored in (more on this below), the domestic 2017 box office is in hideous shape. This year is -6.3% behind 2016 and continues to fall behind 2015, 2013, and 2012.

Country music superstar Miranda Lambert says she wants nothing to do with using her platform to promote her personal politics.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) used her speech at a citizenship ceremony for 41 children aboard the U.S.S. Iowa in San Pedro to blast President Donald Trump’s policies on Monday.

California State Treasurer and 2018 gubernatorial candidate John Chiang began his campaign by taking aim at Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who is so far seen as the frontrunner in the Democrat-heavy race.

The country’s relatively peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy inspired great expectations for its future. But now South Africa has entered a deep political and economic crisis for which it seems to have no easy answers.

Actor Josh Duhamel is the latest Hollywood star to open up about why he doesn’t use his celebrity platform to push politics.

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump does not plan on hosting a trilateral summit with Israel and the Palestinian Authority during his trip to Jerusalem next week, senior Trump administration officials told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday.

Former President Barack Obama blamed the polarization present in the current political climate on social media, cable television, and monetary influence from special interests in a speech Monday.

Joining the growing chorus of those hoping sportscasters will stop injecting left-wing politics into their sports announcing, Fox Sports’ Joe Buck recently said that sports announcers need to dump their focus on politics and stick to sports.

Chelsea Clinton has stoked speculation in Democratic circles about her foray into politics.

Pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday to discuss the state of American politics, as well as the newly installed Trump administration and how “the legitimate dissent of the American people” led to his election.

Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he plans to stay involved in politics after leaving the White House.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has increased fundraising for his run in the wide-open race for governor of California in 2018, but notes that it’s been a trying task.

Most people know that Christmas is the celebration of Jesus coming to Earth as a human. They also know that we mark Easter to celebrate Jesus’s death and resurrection which conquered death and gives us forgiveness for our sins. And there is so much more good news from his life and work — conquering politics, for one!

My friend and former law professor Jedediah Purdy has published an attack at Politico, “The Anti-Democratic Worldview of Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel,” targeting President-elect Donald Trump’s chief adviser and major tech backer, respectively.

Actor Mark Wahlberg believes his fellow celebrities should stick to entertaining Americans and stop trying to push their politics on the country.

A Hillary Clinton supporter, who describes herself as a “liberal democrat, lawyer, skeptic, feminist, LGBTQ ally, wine-lover [and] comedy geek” has started the #GrabYourWallet movement to boycott Ivanka Trump’s fashion line from major shopping outlets like Nordstrom over her father’s presidential candidacy.

TEL AVIV – Egyptian press has come out against the handshake snub by their country’s judoka, saying the Olympic athlete’s refusal to shake his Israeli opponent’s hand shows Egypt to be a “diseased culture” and only served the “Zionists” who leveraged the incident to portray Egyptians as “extremists and uncultured.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti discussed his views on law enforcement, and his efforts on police reform, during a candid interview with Breitbart California Editor Joel B. Pollak at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.

Odessa, Texas, realtor Michelle Blackwell posted an online advertisement seeking to appeal to #NeverTrump supporters, those who have pledged to leave the country if Donald Trump is elected President of the United States.

The government has backtracked on plans to stop teaching feminism as a “major political philosophy” in A-level politics. Following a typically noisy online campaign, feminism “will now be compulsory” and the number of “female thinkers” on the syllabus will be