Politics

Donald Trumps relentless, false claims about the 2020 presidential election have sparked fresh urgency in Congress and in both parties for changing the Electoral Count Act to ensure no one can undo a future presidential election.

The election of a veteran lawmaker of the former ruling party to lead the union of state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) moves an influential piece of Mexico's old power structure closer to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who blessed the vote.

As many as 931 candidates, including Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, on Tuesday filed their nomination papers for the upcoming Punjab Assembly polls, officials said. Tuesday was the last day for filing nominations.

The dissent is that demands are being deliberately ignored as the Centre denied funds and several projects.

Uttar Pradesh polls: CM Yogi Adityanath accused the SP of supporting rioters and being responsible for the deaths of Hindu youths during the Muzaffarnagar riots in 2013.

Parties have activated their IT cells and are focusing on making the digital game strong as Election Commission has put restrictions on political campaigning due to Covid-19.

President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are expected to move quickly to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, seizing the chance to energize their voting base ahead of November's midterm elections, when control of Congress will...

Rep. Jim Cooper, DTenn., announced Tuesday that he won't run for reelection, declaring there was no way for him to win his seat under a new congressional map drawn up by state Republicans.

A project that will boost Great Lakes shipping in a crucial bottleneck and another intended to protect the lakes from invasive carp will get big funding increases under the Biden administration's infrastructure package, officials said Thursday.

The Federal Reserve on Thursday released a highly anticipated report on central bank digital currencies that suggested it is leaning toward having banks and other financial firms, rather than the Fed itself, manage digital accounts for customers.

The cadre has been camping at RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary’s house in Delhi that a Jat leader should contest from Siwalkhas instead of SP candidate and former MLA Gulam Mohammad.

Gandhi made the comment days after the Centre in a response to the high court said it was considering a 'constructive approach' to the issue of criminalising marital rape.

The TMC has extended the offer of an alliance to the Congress in Goa, but the grand old party wants to play the big brother in the fight against the BJP.

Concerned but not giving up, President Joe Biden is anxiously pushing ahead to prod people to get COVID19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration's sweeping vaccinateortest plan for large employers.

The late Sen. Harry Reid was buried Thursday at a desert cemetery in his hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, following a week of ceremonies in Las Vegas and at the U.S. Capitol that honored his decades shaping state and national policies.

The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nations COVID19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court...