Another Africa election this weekend will showcase the tension between a longtime leader and frustrated youth.

North Carolina Republican leaders are almost complete with redrawing the state's U.S. House map to help the GOP gain another seat.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency has withdrawn from consideration after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted.

New Jersey Republicans have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a county that is key to the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race between Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill.

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has revealed in a podcast that he was tattooed years ago with an image widely recognized as Nazi symbol.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit that seeks to get Democrat Adelita Grijalva sworn in as the state’s newest member of Congress after House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to seat her for a month since winning the post.

Democrats have rallied against a proposed U.S. House map by North Carolina Republicans in Raleigh.

A California man has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government in Southern California while working as a campaign advisor to for a local politician.

President Donald Trump’s choice to challenge maverick Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has announced his candidacy.

Progressive groups are launching an effort to reconnect with Latino voters to regain support in places where President Donald Trump has made inroads.

Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill in the final stretch of their statewide campaigns for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's memoir is coming out in January.

Simone Ehivet Gbagbo is seeking a return to the presidential palace in Ivory Coast's election this week.

Japan's parliament has elected Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister.

A spokesperson for Joe Biden says the former Democratic president has completed several weeks of radiation therapy to treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature has formally begun redrawing the state's congressional district map.

The national chair of the Democratic Party says online comments made by a Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, criticize police officers, and express other controversial views were wrong, but not disqualifying from office.

President Donald Trump has encouraged a retired Navy SEAL to challenge Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in next year’s Kentucky primary.

Iraq’s prime minister says a small group of U.S. military advisers will stay in the country to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria against the Islamic State group.

Virginia is the last Southern state that has not passed new abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a national constitutional right to the procedure.

Bolivia’s first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, has injected a sharp note of realism into his plan for solving Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in four decades.

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her party secured a crucial coalition partner.

Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift have been buoyed after Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who campaigned on getting back to negotiating a two-zone federation with rival Greek Cypriots after an eight-year stalemate.

Preliminary results show that Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, has won Bolivia’s presidential election, galvanizing voters outraged by the country’s economic crisis and frustrated with 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party.

Jack Ciattarelli has been endorsed by Donald Trump in next month's New Jersey governor's election and is a strong supporter of the Republican president and his agenda.

Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party has chosen Cheng Li-wun as its new chairperson.

Heavy security has been deployed to Kenya’s western city of Kisumu ahead of the final public viewing of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, after five people died in the last two public funeral events.

New York City’s mayoral candidates have duked it out in their first general election debate, with contenders Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa sparring over everything from the Israel-Hamas war to the city’s education system.

Barack Obama has endorsed Democratic candidates Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.

Kentucky Senate candidate Daniel Cameron is banking on his familiarity with voters to overcome lackluster fundraising.

Voters in Bexar County, Texas, are set to decide on November 4 whether to allow $311 million in venue taxes to go toward helping build a new arena for the San Antonio Spurs.

Two people have died and more than 100 others were injured during a stampede at a state funeral service for Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who died this week at 80.

After nearly two decades of one-party rule and a worsening currency and fuel crisis, Bolivia is shifting to the right.

Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares and former Democratic Del.

Venezuelan government officials floated a plan in which President Nicolás Maduro would eventually leave office, a bid aimed at easing mounting U.S. pressure on the government in Caracas.

Republican leaders in North Carolina have proposed a new U.S. House district map that could thwart reelection prospects of a Democratic incumbent in the state's only swing seat.

The United Nations chief has condemned the military takeover in Madagascar as an army colonel who led the coup is set to be quickly sworn in as president three days after announcing soldiers had taken charge.

An unprecedented number of states are considering redrawing their congressional district lines mid-decade.

The Department of Energy says it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy.

Democrat Jackie Norris has ended her campaign for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat.

France’s latest political crisis has eased, for now.

New York City mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa tried to blunt Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s momentum during a highly contentious first general election debate Thursday evening.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived two votes of no-confidence that could have toppled his fragile new government.

The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has appeared in public for the first time since being sentenced to death in absentia for treason and war crimes.

President Donald Trump is embracing tough-on-crime policies in his second term.

The Supreme Court has indicated a willingness to limit race-based districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the primary way plaintiffs can challenge racially discriminatory election practices.

The campaign of U.S. Sen. Edward Markey says he is focused on the government shutdown in response to the announcement that Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton would run for his seat next year.

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died of a heart attack in India.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are requesting that Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel, appear for an interview.

Barack Obama is entering the fight for U.S. House control.

The New England governor who told President Donald Trump to his face she'd see him in court now plans to challenge Maine’s Republican Sen. Susan Collins at the ballot box.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says he will suspend a much-debated plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Cameroon's opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary has claimed victory in the Oct. 12 presidential election ahead of the release of official results.

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw assistance from Argentina if its internal politics don't align with his interests in upcoming elections.

Los Angeles County officials have declared a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

In some versions of a story published Oct. 13, 2025, The Associated Press erroneously reported that charges were dropped against former DeKalb County, Georgia, Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones following a rape allegation.

A local candidate in the suburbs of New York City will remain on the November ballot, despite vanishing months ago after a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean.

Preliminary results from Kosovo's municipal elections show most key municipalities heading to runoffs.

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

Voters in Portugal have cast ballots in local elections, focusing on the mayoral race in Lisbon.

Cameroon has voted in an election that could extend Africa’s oldest leader’s rule by another seven years.

Authorities in the Ivory Coast have arrested at least 237 people during a protest against what activists call the country's authoritarian drift.

Official results show that opposition leader Patrick Herminie has won the presidential election in Seychelles, defeating incumbent leader Wavel Ramkalawan in Saturday’s runoff vote.

Katie Porter is fighting back.

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

House members' absence during the government shutdown is creating a political dilemma for Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and is testing his leadership.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, to try again to form a government in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock.

Democrats are ramping up pressure on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in the newest member of Congress.

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.

The U.S. Treasury has purchased Argentine pesos and finalized a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina’s central bank.

Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit Indiana on Friday for a second time in recent months as the White House continues to push for redistricting.

A judge has given more time to find a new prosecutor for the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others.

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger have faced off on the debate stage in Virginia’s high-stakes governor's race.

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump.

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says he raised more than $12 million from July through September.

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson says he is running for a U.S. House seat representing Memphis, challenging longtime Democratic congressman Steve Cohen to represent the majority-Black city in a contest of youth versus experience.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has launched her reelection campaign as her party looks to bounce back nationally from sweeping losses in 2024.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to name a new prime minister within 48 hours.

A down-ballot race for New Orleans clerk of criminal court has turned contentious as candidate Calvin Duncan faces attacks over whether he was truly exonerated for murder.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli have repeatedly clashed during their second and final debate in the closely watched race for New Jersey governor.

Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics on the government shutdown could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year.

French President Emmanuel Macron faces increased pressure to resign after the collapse of his latest government.

Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner in Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration, has won a crowded Republican primary in the special election to replace a GOP congressman who left office this summer.

The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Utah’s Republican-led Legislature has approved a revised congressional map that could give Democrats an improved chance at flipping a seat as the party fights to topple the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a judge to immediately put on hold his order that would require elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered Wisconsin voters before the next statewide election in February.

Republicans have seized on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a bid to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally.

Maine's state auditor and former secretary of state, Matt Dunlap, has announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jared Golden in the midterm primary.

President Donald Trump has tapped a career government attorney as the next independent watchdog of the Justice Department.

Democrat and retired Marine aviator Amy McGrath has entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky.

Republicans and Democrats have begun pouring money into an election this November for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Republican congressman Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign.

The fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California.

Syria has held its first parliamentary elections since Bashar Assad was ousted nearly a year ago.

Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has accused the opposition of trying to overthrow his government.

Political leaders in Washington are spending much of their energy these days blaming the other party for what could be a significant government shutdown.

Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general has been widely condemned for text messages from 2022 that revealed him suggesting that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.”.

Georgia's police have used water cannons and pepper spray to push back protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace.