President Joe Biden faces a fresh round of hazards from members of his own party as he seeks to salvage his embattled reelection bid and fend off calls from Democratic lawmakers to step aside.

Biden, 81, remains defiant that he will continue his White House run against Donald Trump, despite a firestorm of concerns over his age and mental acuity...Read more

Tokyo voters went to the polls Sunday to elect a governor in a race that poses a test for struggling Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose ruling party is backing the incumbent over a prominent challenger from the opposition camp.

Gov. Yuriko Koike has been leading in opinion surveys, putting her on the inside track to win a third term. This ...Read more

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez voiced support for the left-wing alliance attempting to stem the rise of France’s populist National Rally party, the latest European leader to make direct remarks about France’s election.

Far-right parties in Europe are imposing their “frameworks on conventional right-wing parties incapable of ...Read more

Few people outside France are paying closer attention to its election than Italian premier Giorgia Meloni — and anyone assuming she and the National Rally leader Marine Le Pen would find common ground as right-wing populists would be wrong.

In fact, people familiar with Meloni’s thinking say she is acutely conscious that, should Le Pen’s ...Read more

With President Joe Biden facing a grave political crisis after his debate debacle against Donald Trump, jittery Democrats are openly considering who could take over their campaign if he drops out — and the smart money is firmly on Vice President Kamala Harris.

The 81-year-old Biden, so far, has been defiant about staying in the race – a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., is the latest member of Congress calling on President Joe Biden to halt his bid for reelection.

"Given what I saw and heard from the president during last week's debate in Atlanta," Craig said in a statement Saturday, "coupled with the lack of a forceful response from the president himself ...Read more

President Joe Biden survived the most critical day of his campaign reset, avoiding major missteps in a pivotal prime-time interview and earning a warm reception at a raucous Wisconsin rally.

It’s unlikely to stifle the increasing calls for him to drop out of the race.

The president flatly declared his intention to remain atop the Democratic ...Read more

In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok – which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland – was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of Poles, Germans, Russians and Yiddish-speaking Ashkanazi Jews. Each group spoke a different language and viewed members of the other communities with suspicion....Read more

Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist politician in favor of reviving Iran’s nuclear deal and improving relations with the West, was elected president of the Islamic Republic in a runoff vote, according to an announcement on state television.

He beat hard liner Saeed Jalili, a long-standing critic of the nuclear accord who’s hostile to the U.S., ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley encouraged President Joe Biden on Friday to drop his bid for a second term, making the North Side congressman the first in Illinois’ Democratic delegation to join a small but growing group of party members urging Biden to abandon his race against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“Mr. President...Read more

Donald Trump denounced a sweeping policy agenda crafted by some of his closest White House advisers that proposes a massive overhaul of the federal government and stacking agencies with loyalists to the former president.

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” the presumptive Republican nominee said Friday in a post on his Truth Social ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday night abruptly scheduled an unusual weekend meeting with top Democratic colleagues as party anxiety festers over whether Joe Biden should remain in the presidential race.

Even as the Democratic establishment on Capitol Hill and elsewhere continued to publicly support Biden’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden dismissed calls to end his reelection bid and denied that his debate performance wrought significant damage to his campaign, a defiant posture that risked further alarming Democrats who fear he has not honestly grappled with his biggest political crisis.

Biden on Friday in an ABC News interview refused to ...Read more

Iran’s only reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian established an early lead in the country’s runoff election against his staunchly anti-Western rival Saeed Jalili, according to initial results broadcast on Iranian state TV.

Pezeshkian had gained 2,904,227 votes, edging out Jalili with 2,815,566 votes. Prior to the announcement,...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden will attend a predominately Black church in Philadelphia Sunday morning before traveling to a campaign event in Harrisburg Sunday afternoon, his campaign announced Friday evening.

Biden will deliver remarks after the church service in Philadelphia, his campaign said. It did not identify the church or provide...Read more

WASHINGTON — As speculation about President Joe Biden’s viability in the presidential race grows, the president insists he’s in for the long haul. But if he did step aside, Democrats are signaling they’re ready to rally around his vice president, Kamala Harris.

The problem is, Harris is viewed by voters even less favorably than Biden or...Read more