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No German chancellor had ever failed to win a first round ballot for leader - but Friedrich Merz has become the first.

As a young adult, I entered the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order, where among other missions, I worked with orphaned ...

German lawmakers are set to vote on the country's next chancellor again on Tuesday afternoon, hours after conservative leader ...

The religious head described the Manusmriti as the core of Sanatana Dharma and said that Rahul Gandhi had not apologised for ...

A federal judge ordered North Carolina's election board to certify a sitting Democratic justice's electoral victory to the ...

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) described a transformation at the border in the San Diego region between the Biden administration ...

A federal judge has ruled that disputed ballots in the still unresolved 2024 race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat ...

Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January 2025, a sweeping policy blueprint known as Project 2025 ( developed ...

The billionaire heir and the former bartender. Many Democrats have been in and out of the spotlight as the party looks for ...

Charlie Bailey, newly elected chair of Democratic Party of Georgia, talks about the party's future, the possibility of Stacey Abrams running for governor again and voters.

Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney, who won with a promise to confront U.S. President Donald Trump's aggression, has the opportunity to do that in Tuesday's face-to-face Oval Office meeting. The ...