Kenya heads to the polls on August 8 with incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta battling to secure a second five-year term. But while many expect Kenyatta to prevail once again, his opponent and longtime ...

“One goal, one nation, one people – together we can make things peaceful.” This is the message being spread by local peace committees in Liberia as they work to maintain peace before and during the ...

Sheila Oliver, left, was elected New Jersey's first black woman lieutenant governor on Tuesday. Here, she stands with Gov.-elect Phil Murphy at their victory party. This story is part of our 2017 ...

Until Tuesday, the president mostly stayed away from Democratic wins. — -- As Democrats celebrated sweeping victories in state and local races across the United States Tuesday, at least one ...

A version of this news analysis originally appeared in the Inside Politics newsletter, out Fridays. Sign up here to get it first to your inbox. Last Tuesday night, Democrats chalked up two moral ...

Republican mayoral candidate and Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis addressing the Conservative Political Action Committee. Every municipal office in New York City is up for grabs this ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing renewed criticism over a tweet from 2017 claiming that the presidential election the year before was “hijacked.” “Our election was hijacked,” said Pelosi’s 2017 ...

Congo's government has said it will be too expensive to hold national elections in 2017, suggesting that an already-delayed vote will be pushed back even further. The country's budget minister, Pierre ...

The outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s center-right party won the most votes (33 seats), while populist Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration party came in second with lower-than-expected results.

The 2017 French presidential election remains the clearest failed attempt by a foreign entity to influence an electoral process in recent years. Taking aim at presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, ...