national elections

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's first parliament in three years is off to a rocky start, with flamboyant displays of support for the president and general rowdin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign jumped at a chance Friday to portray rival Sen. Bernie Sanders as being at odds with Preside...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department produced "inaccurate and incomplete" responses to public records requests while Democratic presidential hopeful...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are fighting for the favor of many of the same undecided voters across Iowa, where even some of the...

CLAREMONT, New Hampshire (AP) — Chris Christie is the Republican presidential candidate to beat in second-to-vote New Hampshire — so say the super PAC...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems like only yesterday that skeptics of Barack Obama's birth in Hawaii rushed to the Supreme Court to try to block the son of ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Unpopular after 11 years in power, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is starting to face some open machinations from would-b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has a vision for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's departure. Even if it works, the president won't be around to...

NEW YORK (AP) — Characterizing Wall Street as an industry run on "greed, fraud, dishonesty and arrogance," Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With his emotional plea for America to embrace some gun control, President Barack Obama on Thursday thrust the contentious issue to ...

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A subdued Bill Clinton offered a deeply personal endorsement of his wife's presidential campaign Monday, telling voters that Hilla...

LONDON (AP) — Iceland's long-serving president says he will not be seeking re-election this year after leading the country for 20 years. Ólafur Ragnar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department opened the new year by falling short of a court-ordered goal from last year to have out by now 82 percent of Hi...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Thousands in Central African Republic's capital voted Wednesday in national elections with hope that a new pre...

BERLIN, N.H. (AP) — Former New York Gov. George Pataki has ended his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, with just over a month to go...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Carson's name and face adorn the walls of dozens of schools in the U.S. and a medical school in Nigeria. Mayors have handed him ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert may not respect much of what Donald Trump says, but he does admire the Republican's ability to craft a message that ma...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Support for legal abortion in the U.S. has edged up to its highest level in the past two years, with an Associated Press-GfK poll sh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump labeled Democrat Hillary Clinton "disgusting" for using the restroom during a commerc...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Michel Martelly is defending much-criticized elections in his divided country and asserts that the oppo...