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President Donald Trump meets with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres during the United Nations General ...

Every year, more Americans are coming of political age in this dreadful time. By the time Trump leaves office in 2029, he ...

Is America’s political future female? Two women from either end of the political spectrum are the subject of chatter online related to the 2028 presidential election. Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, ...

The partial government shutdown has become the second-longest since 1976. The longest shutdown, which happened during Trump's first term, lasted 35 days.

Recent fatal shootings of political figures have highlighted a rise in political violence in the U.S. Experts suggest that most political violence comes from lone extremists rather than organized ...

The new American pope, Leo XIV, has somehow managed, in the four months since his election, to stay mostly out of the news. His predecessor, Pope Francis, had been committed to expanding the church’s ...

On the overall costs and benefits of technological revolutions, the printing press helped fuel the religious wars of the 16th ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An embattled figure in Native American politics has resigned as chairman of the All Pueblo Council of Governors and ended his outside consulting work for the state of New Mexico ...

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...