Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for elections next year and said there was "more than enough time" to prepare for a vote by July, the Financial Times
October 09, 2026Senior members of Germany's governing coalition have vowed to quickly implement reforms, according to a message to lawmakers seen by Reuters on Thursday, as the government
October 08, 2026Thousands of Brazilian students have marched in Rio de Janeiro against the possibility of Flávio Bolsonaro winning the presidency
October 08, 2026Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called on Western nations to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove the rise of Europe and North America to global dominance for centuries
October 07, 2026An armed voter suppression campaign in New Jersey in 1981 finds echoes today in the Trump administration’s persistent efforts to suppress the vote and undermine trust in elections nationwide.
October 07, 2026Spain's Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, on Monday lived up to his reputation as a political gambler by calling a snap
October 05, 2026Thousands of youth protesters and opposition supporters
October 04, 2026The People's House museum exhibit in Washington has updated its replica Oval Office to match Donald Trump’s flashier and more golden design choices from his second term
October 04, 2026Front-runners in Brazil’s presidential race are campaigning in the eve of Sunday’s election in the powerhouse state where a fifth of the nation’s vote is based
October 04, 2026Dan Rather anchored the ‘CBS Evening News’ for over 20 years, starting on March 9, 1981. But he always seemed more in his element as a reporter, and now as a news analyst on social media.
October 01, 2026A growing number of people think social media manipulates and divides people and harms democracy, Pew Research Center said on Thursday, echoing rising concern and tighter scrutiny
October 01, 2026An alliance of India's opposition parties said on Wednesday it would launch protests to "save democracy" after a newspaper report said the Election Commission pushed
September 30, 2026A majority of Supreme Court justices follow originalism, the mode of constitutional interpretation championed by late Justice Antonin Scalia. A former Scalia law clerk explains what originalism means.
September 28, 2026French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Europe was built on a "Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian foundation", invoking the continent's religious
September 28, 2026Indian police used tear gas and water cannons on Friday to disperse opposition Congress party members during nationwide protests demanding the
September 25, 2026Inside Trump’s plan for the ‘biggest DOJ election observer effort in history’
September 25, 2026Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington is getting a much chillier reception on Capitol Hill than at the White House
September 24, 2026Verizon said on Wednesday it would invest $70 million in a nationwide effort to provide AI training to job seekers, small businesses and educators,
September 23, 2026US President Donald Trump met Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez late on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly,
September 23, 2026There are no guarantees that pollsters’ troubles in recent elections and popular skepticism about their dependability will be alleviated anytime soon.
September 22, 2026Brazil has opened a new front against organized crime to keep candidates suspected of criminal ties off the ballot at October's
September 22, 2026Ruling pro-Putin party set to win Russia’s tightly controlled wartime parliamentary election
September 21, 2026Pakistani security forces have ended a standoff with militants inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan
September 19, 2026Russia’s parliamentary election for the first time is being held in Ukraine’s regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the start of its full-scale invasion more than 4 1/2 years ago
September 19, 2026Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin on Thursday condemned an assault on an independent politician as "an attack on democracy" and said the country needed to take very
September 17, 2026Recovering under medical care after her health deteriorated in prison, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi speaks with CNN's Jomana Karadsheh about her new memoir, her years behind bars and why she continues to speak out despite the risks. To avoid further retribution from the Iranian regime, the interview focuses on her book and personal experiences rather than recent events in Iran.
September 17, 2026More than 15 years after the U.S.
September 16, 2026What’s next for mail voting after the Supreme Court ruled against Trump
September 16, 2026Belarusian state institutions have worked together to repress critics of President Alexander Lukashenko's government through every stage of the
September 15, 2026A predominantly Muslim region in the southern Philippines has held its first elections for a regional parliament following years of delays, moving it closer to self-rule after decades of insurgency and violence
September 15, 2026A Hong Kong court has sentenced three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown to prison terms of about five to seven years
September 11, 2026An appeals court has upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s order to limit mail voting
September 10, 2026Will the Trump administration send federal officers or troops to the polls? Here’s what we know
September 07, 2026Journalist and political activist Gloria Steinem told CNN in 2024 that the ability to make decisions over one's physical self is fundamental to democracy
September 03, 2026Across the country and up and down the ballot, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras
September 04, 2026Only a "serious, democratic government" can provide the stability needed by investors in Venezuela's oil sector, opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner
September 03, 2026A Hong Kong court on Thursday rejected the appeal brought by a 94-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and four others over their convictions for failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested in the anti-government protests in 2019
September 03, 2026Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down Germany's world-famous Bauhaus school of design, the art movement has once again become a cultural battleground
September 03, 2026Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong faces longer prison sentence after second national security guilty plea
September 02, 2026Indonesian legal experts and activists voiced support on Monday for an Indonesian court ruling voiding legal provisions that made insulting the government a criminal
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