Iranians were voting for the country's next president on Friday in a race that has turned into a fierce competition and where, for the first time in more than a decade, the outcome was difficult to predict.
Former president Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from a conservative think tank’s plan for the next Republican presidency, as Democrats work to make it a political vulnerability for Trump in the November election.
It's been a week since President Biden's disastrous debate performance, and his political fortunes only appear to be growing worse by the day. His poll numbers are dropping, Donald Trump is gloating, and Democrats are in a full-fledged panic about the future.
There was a time when U.S. President Joe Biden’s allies abroad would make allowances for his age, let the slip-ups slide, gently bring him back to the fold when he appeared to wander off. No longer.
A half dozen seasoned politicians and first-time candidates are vying to represent Spokane Valley and much of eastern Spokane County in the state Legislature, after the incumbent left the seat wide open.
In what’s shaping up to be a close presidential election, analysts are keeping an eye on the “Black vote,” which some polls suggest could be starting to slip away from Democrats after decades of dominance. But when exactly did African American voters first shift their allegiance from the Republican to the Democratic Party?
President Biden’s team continues to believe that tens of millions Americans - perhaps as many as one in every five voters - will cast a ballot for him this year despite their current conviction that he is already too old or not mentally competent to do the job.
A reformist candidate critical of many of the Iranian government's policies, including the mandatory headscarf law, will compete next week against a hard-line conservative in a runoff election for the country's presidency, Iran's interior ministry announced Saturday.
President Joe Biden’s odds to win the 2024 election took a major hit in betting markets after Thursday night’s debate with former President Donald Trump.
More than a dozen people younger than 30 who were interviewed Tuesday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said they’re not enthusiastic about the prospect of either the Democratic candidate, President Joe Biden, or the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, as our nation’s next president.
CNN is hoping Thursday's highly anticipated Biden-Trump debate will become a stature-building moment at a time when the cable news stalwart needs a win.
Sen. Maria Cantwell’s first term in the Senate didn’t come easy, as she defeated incumbent Republican Slade Gorton by a margin of less than 0.1% in 2000. Since then, the Democrat has cruised to re-election three times as Washington has become an ever-bluer state.
Donors channeled tens of millions of dollars to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee following his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, erasing the fundraising advantage that President Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee held.
The Spokane County Democrats are investigating a heated exchange during the June 7 Spokane Pride Festival between the party’s chair, Naida Spencer, and Natasha Hill, a local attorney, activist and interim editor of The Black Lens who is running for a state House position as a Democrat.
It’s been 3 1/2 years since thousands of people marched from a rally by then-President Donald Trump to the U.S. Capitol, where many of them stayed for hours, fighting with police and parading through the building, delaying the certification of the presidential election and forcing members of Congress to flee.
Few events have colored national politics as deeply as the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, stating that there is no Constitutional right to abortion and conferring authority to regulate the procedure to individual states.
