Defeated Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton promises to let her guard down and explain what happened in her shock electoral defeat to Donald Trump, including the mistakes she made, in a...
Donald Trump's first six months in the White House have been a riot of scandal, chaos and outrage that -- absent a major course correction -- could spell doom for his entire administration. All US...
Finally, some good news for Donald Trump: battling dismal approval ratings, the US president on Wednesday relished a Republican victory in a closely-watched congressional election in Georgia, calling...
Democrats are slamming a Republican bid to dismantle financial rules put in place after the 2008 crisis as the "wrong choice" for the country. House Republicans approved a sweeping measure on...
The southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho holds a snap election on Saturday, with experts predicting another fractious coalition government, unlikely to tackle its dire levels of HIV-AIDS and...
Democratic and Republican lawmakers will be “thanking” Donald Trump for firing FBI director James Comey, the president has said. In early morning tweets, Mr Trump defended his shock decision to...
South Korea's new president is a former pro-democracy activist and special forces soldier whose electoral victory caps a turbulent political career -- he was jailed by his predecessor's father. Moon...
The projected winner of South Korea's presidential election is a former special forces soldier, pro-democracy activist and human rights lawyer. An exit poll forecast a landslide victory for...
South Korea's presidential hopefuls made a final push for votes Monday, with the left-leaning candidate a clear favourite, as the North assailed the outgoing conservative government a day before the...
With US Republicans relishing a win in the Obamacare repeal process, Democrats Friday girded for battle, warning that despite President Donald Trump's optimism, the health bill's fate is far from...
President Donald Trump took the unusual step of advocating a forced shutdown of the federal government Tuesday, after Republicans and Democrats ignored White House demands in reaching a budget deal....
Italy's former prime minister has made a dramatic return to frontline politics five months after stepping down. Matteo Renzi, nicknamed 'The Scrapper' because of his confrontational style, easily...
Republicans faced a sobering reminder of Donald Trump's unpopularity Wednesday after a young Democrat forced a run-off election in a conservative congressional district, highlighting the...
The US Senate prepared to take its most consequential step in years with the procedural vote Thursday on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick. Democrats made last-minute pleas against changing...
Democratic US Senator Jeff Merkley delivered one of the longer speeches in Senate history by holding the floor for more than 15 hours into Wednesday to oppose President Donald Trump's Supreme Court...
The US Senate descended into acrimonious bickering Tuesday as Republicans and Democrats clashed over President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, with no signs that a potentially damaging showdown...
Senate Democrats are mounting a filibuster of US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, a rare obstruction of high-court appointments. If the gambit proves successful this coming week,...
Bernie Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign in Boston Friday night at a progressive rally alongside Sen. Elizabeth Warren, saying the Democratic nominee's loss revealed the need for the...
After a crushing defeat in the effort to repeal Obamacare, the Trump administration is hoping for smoother sailing on tax reform, expecting this will be less divisive among Republican party factions....
Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-hye is keeping her silence as calls grow for her arrest. Ms Park was forced from office on Friday, after judges unanimously upheld parliament's decision to...
