Brazil's presidential candidates have kicked off their campaigns ahead of a tight October election.

The national redistricting competition between the parties means California's conservative voters are going through the same thing as Democratic voters in Republican strongholds.

A piece of Miami architectural history has sat largely abandoned and covered in graffiti for more than three decades.

Democratic voters are turning out for this year’s primaries at levels not seen in more than 20 years.

Democrats seeking the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 will need to prove themselves early on in states where Black and Latino voters and union members are key supporters.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his government has triggered an economic reciprocity law against U.S. tariffs.

Congressman Russell Fry says he's supporting Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina's Republican Senate primary runoff.

Vote counting in Zambia’s presidential election was suspended and then restarted under heightened security over reports of violence against election officials and the theft of ballot boxes.

Nigel Farage has regained his seat in Parliament, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties.

Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for Iowa governor, says he's bringing a different message to Iowans.

A judge has dismissed Nevada’s fake electors case.

Former Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is scheduled to be the featured speaker at a Labor Day rally in what may be one of his first public appearances since a sexual assault allegation ended his candidacy.

David Jolly, a former Republican now running for Florida governor as a Democrat, is trying to revive the state's political battleground status.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema and his main rival Brian Mundubile have cast their votes in a crucial presidential election that will test whether Hichilema’s economic reforms were enough to overcome widespread frustration over the cost of living.

A special election is taking place Thursday in the seaside town of Clacton, just east of London.

Democrats are gathering to finalize their 2028 presidential primary calendar this week, setting the stage for a wide-open contest to succeed President Donald Trump and chart a path ahead as the party’s voters oscillate between progressive and more moderate candidates.

Republicans in Minnesota see a chance to regain influence after a fraud scandal rocked state government.

The attorney general’s campaign said he wants strong border security that considers Big Bend’s “unique characteristics” — but did not say whether he supports building a wall there.

Results in Democratic primaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Connecticut have reiterated that Democratic voters are hungry for change, even as they remain divided over the party’s ideological future.

David Crowley’s razor-thin primary win over a democratic socialist in swing state Wisconsin sets up a match against a congressman who has voted with President Donald Trump 100% of the time.

Texas plaintiffs’ lawyers are bankrolling populist GOP insurgents. Tort reform groups like Texans for Lawsuit Reform are aghast.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has survived a leadership vote among his party’s lawmakers less than three months before an election.

During a one-on-one with State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, she addressed several key issues during the interview, including public schools, data centers, energy and the economy.

In this week's episode, the TribCast crew is joined by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and economy reporter Paul Cobler. They discuss the anger in rural Texas over data centers and power lines, and ask Miller why he thinks it means Democrats could win a statewide race in November.

Primary elections are taking place in six U.S. states — Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has selected a Republican-turned-independent as her running mate in a tough reelection campaign.

The Democratic Party's ideological divide remained unresolved even as the establishment candidate eked out a narrow win in the Wisconsin governor's primary over a democratic socialist.

Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman have advanced to a runoff in South Carolina’s special Republican primary to replace the late Lindsey Graham in the Senate.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment.

Moderate Democrat David Crowley has won the Wisconsin primary for governor.

Russia’s highest court has ordered the only party opposing the Kremlin’s military action in Ukraine to be removed from the ballot in next month’s parliamentary election.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that certain shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election.

President Donald Trump says Will Scharf will be the new White House counsel, replacing David Warrington.

The Democratic Senate primary in Minnesota is heating up and immigration has become a central issue.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says he's spoken with Barack Obama and hopes the former president will campaign with him.

Myanmar’s military-backed government has rejected ASEAN's call for the unconditional release of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, is running in a crowded Republican Senate primary on Tuesday.

The Senate has passed a short-term measure to keep federal agencies funded into early December and avoid a government shutdown during campaign season.

States are debating whether to crack down on social media influencers making political advertisements without disclosing that they were paid.

Mississippi does not top the list of hotly contested U.S. Senate races this fall.

Michigan Democrats are showing unity behind their statewide candidates.

Scott Colom is a Black man and a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, a state traditionally led by white conservatives.

The latest poll has Paxton leading by one point, after a number of polls showed Talarico with a slight advantage.

Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio is calling on Rep. Max Miller to resign his House seat and abandon his fall reelection bid.

Wisconsin is the latest state where the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party will play out.

Former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher has defeated Congressman Andy Ogles in a Republican primary.

Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a tradeoff between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.

House Democrats are adding a dozen Republican-held seats to their list of targets for the November midterms.

After hitting his GOP foe for voting under an address where he no longer lived, the Tribune and ProPublica found the Democratic Senate candidate also appears to have done so.

Missouri’s top election official has rejected a petition for a statewide referendum on new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump.

Maryland voters will decide in November whether to clear the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats in all eight of the state’s U.S. House districts.

The House Ethics Committee says it has opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations made against Republican Rep. Max Miller.

The Democratic Senate race between Rep. Haley Stevens and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is one of the clearest tests yet of the party’s future.

President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy and other issues.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has cleared a critical hurdle in his bid to be confirmed to the post after swaying Republican holdouts on a Senate committee to advance his nomination for a floor vote.

In the survey released Tuesday, just 7% of Black Texans who voted in recent elections said they are less likely to vote in November due to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Democratic primary loss.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed are in a close race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan.

Virginia Democrats picked establishment candidates to take on Republican incumbents in two congressional districts the party hopes to flip in November.

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is the latest and perhaps biggest example yet that the party’s voters are looking to turn the page on establishment-backed candidates in must-win battlegrounds.

Washington state will hold a primary Tuesday for the U.S. House and other offices as firefighters battle wildfires that have devastated the Spokane area and forced local election officials to operate under a state of emergency.

Maryland lawmakers have opened a special session to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are spending the final hours of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary in settings that reflect their starkly different campaigns.

Kay Granger, the first Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and who served for nearly three decades, has died.

Key senators have unveiled a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has confirmed his candidacy for what is likely his last reelection bid.

National Democratic Party Chair Ken Martin is said to be in survival mode.

Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to elect state Supreme Court justices rather than have the governor appoint them.

President Donald Trump is threatening to push forward with a fund to compensate his allies if two Republican holdouts won’t support his nominee for attorney general.

Democrats are seeing a fresh opportunity for an upset in a northeast Ohio congressional seat.

Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland says he's concerned that President Trump might use federal power to influence the fall elections.

Missouri voters are deciding on a measure that could make it much harder to amend the state constitution.

Mandela Barnes has dropped out of Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor.

Despite sending more Republicans to Congress than any other state, Texas has elected only five GOP women to the U.S. House in its history. Redistricting and retirements could change things.

Voters in Manchester are electing a new mayor Thursday to replace Andy Burnham, who left the job to become Britain’s prime minister.

President Donald Trump says car companies are thriving due to tariffs and other key policies he's instituted as president.

A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that voters who have already returned their absentee ballots for the state’s primary election are not allowed to void those and request a new one.

The U.S. Postal Service is emerging as a pivotal player as the midterm elections approach.

Officials in Pakistan administered Kashmir are accusing an outlawed political group of trying to sabotage elections for the region’s constitutional assembly.

Keiko Fujimori has been sworn in as Peru’s president after a narrow victory in the June runoff election.

Newly released audio tapes appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020.

The poll found the Austin Democrat with a commanding lead among independents and a surprising edge with non-college-educated voters, who have consistently favored Republicans.

Democrats casting in-person absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s chaotic Democratic primary for governor are divided over whether a democratic socialist can win in the swing state’s general election.

The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation’s intelligence agencies.

The GOP race to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham on the November ballot is heating up.

President Donald Trump remembers Sen_ Lindsey Graham as “a giant of the United States Senate" and a "true American original.”.

A new platform from the progressive Democratic Socialists of America is sparking Republican attacks.

Democrat James Talarico is challenging Republican Ken Paxton in a closely watched U.S. Senate race in Texas.

President Donald Trump says his economic policies have revived the auto industry and American manufacturing.

A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that halted President Donald Trump's efforts to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.

Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online.

Former Rep. Cori Bush, outside the courthouse where the Dred Scott case was argued, promises to reverse her ouster from Congress.

The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has returned to his country to face corruption charges.

House leaders are sending lawmakers home for the August recess after one of the rockiest sessions in recent memory to campaign for reelection.

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has been confirmed as the presidential candidate for his father's Liberal Party.

Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson has secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine.

The Trump administration has again acknowledged in court documents that it terminated $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state,” in this case, 16 states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate over progressive Abdul El-Sayed.