In the summer of 1881, a gunshot at a Washington D.C. train station set off one of the most dramatic chapters in American ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., was officially sworn into the House on Wednesday, 50 days after she won her special election to take her late father’s seat — the longest time a lawmaker ...

Governor Thomas E. Dewey conceded today that President Truman had been elected in the closest presidential race in 32 years.

The U.S. Senate on Monday approved a compromise that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, breaking a ...

California's governor gambled and won, raised his national profile and fortified his fund-raising base. But Newsom's biggest ...

Self-proclaimed psychic Jeane Dixon made her name by predicting the assassination of US President John F Kennedy. But did her other forecasts also come true?

In an Iraq-like strategy, Donald Trump wants to destabilise Venezuela for oil while dismissing reports and intel ...

LONDON (AP) — Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly, who secured the backing of Ireland’s left-leaning parties including Sinn Féin, has won the country’s presidential election in a landslide ...

A recent study published in Frontiers in Political Science provides evidence that emotions influence voting decisions more strongly than policy preferences. By analyzing data from five United States ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — With no outright winner in Seychelles’ presidential election, the country will hold a rerun vote between the two main contenders, the electoral authority said Sunday.