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In one of the biggest days of this year’s primary campaign season, red-state Kansas rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion, and voters in Missouri repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a Senate seat.

With headlines about abortion, mass shootings, the climate crisis, and economic woes virtually inescapable, Gen Z and young Millennials are more engaged with politics than their parents’ or grandparents’ generations ever were at their age. But a number of new indicators, related to political frustrations and disengagement from the system suggest many of those young, politically-engaged Americans still may not…

Former spokesman for the Oath Keepers extremist group Jason Van Tatenhove testified Tuesday before the Jan. 6 committee that he believes that without intervention, domestic extremism groups could incite violence in future elections. “We’ve gotten exceedingly lucky that more bloodshed did not happen.”

A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Two of Congress’ staunchest conservatives repelled more centrist challengers to lock up Republican nominations on Tuesday.

Colorado Republicans have rejected two prominent election deniers in primaries Tuesday night. It’s a setback for the movement to install backers of former President Donald Trump’s election lies in positions with power over voting. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters lost the Republican primary for secretary of state to Pam Anderson, a former clerk in suburban Denver. Peters was indicted for...

This week’s gripping testimony to Congress about threats to local election officials following the 2020 presidential election had a rapt audience outside Washington — secretaries of state and election clerks across the U.S who said the stories could easily have been their own.

The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans. It could increase the power of state lawmakers over races for Congress and the presidency, as well as redistricting. It also could cut state courts out of the equation.

Both Abrams and Kemp are already talking about what they need to do to mobilize voters after primaries that drew heavy turnout.

A new round of primary elections across the U.S. this week is exposing heightened tensions within the Democratic Party.

Two-thirds of Americans, according to the AP poll, feel the country’s diverse population makes the U.S. stronger, and far more favor than oppose a path to legal status for immigrants brought into the U.S. illegally as children.

Republicans backing Donald Trump’s false statements about the 2020 election are now campaigning for votes by preaching skepticism about elections.

The RNC announced voted to require GOP presidential candidates to abstain from presidential debates sanctioned by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has overseen the process for decades.

President Vladimir Putin’s immense power has turned out to be a key weakness for the leader, with those around him seemingly too scared to tell him the truth.

Strategists are asking whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could backfire spectacularly on Putin, leaving him vulnerable to an uprising or a coup.

A federal judge said Donald Trump likely broke the law by “corruptly” attempting to obstruct the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College win.

Two weeks to go to the first round of France’s presidential election and the political debate is heavily focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump also is seen negatively by a large group of Americans, which might be the one bright spot for President Joe Biden.

CNBC interviewed John King, who served as Education secretary in the Obama administration, about why he’s come to believe student loans must be forgiven.

France’s finance minister said pushing back the retirement age from 62 to 65 was the “best way of protecting our social model.”