Myanmar’s military regime said it has scheduled Dec. 28 for the first phase of a general election, despite ongoing civil conflict and boycotts by democratic opposition groups.

The Union Election Commission announced Monday that seats in both chambers of parliament as well as at the provincial level would be contested in the “multi-party ...Read more

The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official and other people familiar with the matter, in a move that could see the U.S. become the beleaguered chipmaker’s largest shareholder.

The federal government is considering a potential investment in Intel that would ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Dave Min faced criticism over the weekend for a since-deleted X post that appeared to use a joke about same-sex couples to criticize recent world events.

The X post, shared Saturday morning, included a link to The New York Times’ live updates of the meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will start sharing records related to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with Congress by the end of this week, House Oversight and Government Reform Chair James R. Comer said Monday.

The committee, led by the Kentucky Republican, voted to subpoena the Justice Department for records ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he would renew his assault on mail-in voting after Russia's autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week.

The president provided few details, but wrote on social media that he would "lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday held a crucial meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a united front of European leaders at which he agreed to consider providing security guarantees to any peace deal after his controversial Alaska summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

With Trump adopting Russian points that Ukraine should ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he would renew his assault on mail-in voting after Russia’s autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week.

The president provided few details, but wrote on social media that he would “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while ...Read more

NEW YORK – Mayor Eric Adams is suing New York City’s Campaign Finance Board over its latest refusal to give him public matching funds for his reelection effort, claiming the panel has shown a “deplorable and anti-democratic bias” against him by withholding the critical cash, the Daily News has learned.

The board first started denying ...Read more

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Voters sent two pro-business candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election runoff, ending two decades of almost-uninterrupted socialist rule and likely transforming both the nation’s economic model and its relations with Washington.

With 92% of ballots tallied, opposition senator Rodrigo Paz, 57, led with 32%, compared to ...Read more

The vote count is underway in Bolivia’s presidential and congressional elections that may end years of socialist rule and herald warmer relations with Washington.

The election took place amid unrest, shortages and the steepest inflation in more than three decades. The economic crisis has undermined support for the ruling MAS party, which has...Read more

Count South Carolina among the states that is supporting President Donald Trump’s executive order to restore “law and order in the District of Columbia.”

On Saturday, S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster said that he approved of sending members of his state’s National Guard to Washington to enforce Trump’s order.

McMaster authorized the ...Read more

Tens of thousands of refugees, victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, and others who legally immigrated to Pennsylvania and New Jersey will lose Medicaid coverage next fall, when new eligibility rules established under President Donald Trump’s signature “big beautiful bill” take effect.

Currently, people with certain legal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — West Virginia is sending several hundred National Guard troops to Washington to bolster the federal deployment that President Donald Trump has ordered in his effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey was responding to a request from the Trump administration in sending 300 to 400 of the state’s ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump made his expectations clear entering a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday: “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire,” he said aboard Air Force One.

Yet he did, emerging from their meeting in a diplomatic retreat, endorsing Russia’s territorial ambitions ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference with Democratic leaders when the Border Patrol showed up nearby to conduct a showy immigration raid.

In Washington, D.C., hundreds of National Guard troops patrolled the streets, some in armored vehicles, as city officials battled with the White House over ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump made his expectations clear entering a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday: "I won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire," he said aboard Air Force One.

Yet he did, ending his meeting with the Russian leader with curt remarks, taking no questions from the press and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday appeared to back off of its attempt to install a new “emergency” head of the Washington police force after local officials challenged the move in federal court.

The Justice Department identified Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, as the new “emergency police ...Read more

Hillary Clinton said she would nominate President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he can end the war in Ukraine under certain conditions.

“I understand from everything I’ve read he very much would like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,” the former secretary of state said in an interview on the “Raging Moderates” podcast ...Read more

NEW YORK — KISS has apparently had a change of heart about Donald Trump amid the president’s announcement of the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors, which include the induction of the beloved ’70s glam-rock band.

Founding members of the Grammy-nominated group, who have previously called the MAGA leader “abhorrent” and referred to his ...Read more