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Mexico’s presidential election is less than five months away, and front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is getting all of the attention. The leftist has an average lead of about 8.8 percentage

Almost a third of Italians have yet to decide who to vote for in next month’s general election, more than enough to determine the outcome.

In Angela Merkel’s moment of weakness, some of the fiercest rivals she sidelined during her ascent to the German chancellery are back to haunt her.

An evangelical pastor who as an early and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump said he’s entering the race to succeed Representative Trey Gowdy in South Carolina.

Italians head to the polls on March 4, but with a hung parliament the likeliest outcome, there’s a one-in-four chance they’ll be right back to where they started within a year.

Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other online platforms would face stricter rules for political advertising according to a proposed framework that will be considered by the Federal Election

Seventeen were killed and 14 injured in the attack.

Australia’s coalition government is in danger of fracturing over the fallout from Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s extramarital affair with a former staffer.

White House Counsel Don McGahn has been granted permanent security clearance, a government official said Thursday evening.

Britain should aim for a partial customs union with the European Union once it quits the bloc, according to the Institute of Directors.

A helicopter’s crash landing in South Carolina this week may have been triggered by a civilian drone, which would make it the first drone-related crash of an aircraft in the U.S.

A decade ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose the West’s annual security conference in Munich to say “what I really think” about the U.S. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu plans to use this week’s

When Islamist militants came to his village school and threatened to kill the teachers if they didn’t leave, Moussa Diallo wasn’t surprised.

With the threat of Russian interference continuing to loom over American elections, U.S. intelligence authorities are arming state officials with classified updates on risks to their electoral systems

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s much-criticized reliance on first-class flights to whisk him around the world is necessary to ensure his protection amid ‘vulgar’

Jerome Powell is the first Federal Reserve chairman in more than a decade to have any background in the private sector. That could explain changes he’s implemented in his first weeks on the job.

Alphabet Inc., Snap Inc. and Facebook Inc. all have dual-share classes -- a practice that has drawn criticism from investor advocates who say it can allow insiders to control companies for decades.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose 1991 nomination divided the country, said the judicial confirmation process is driving away some of the best candidates because they don’t want to be part

The U.S. Senate blocked four immigration proposals Thursday, including a bipartisan measure that the White House threatened to veto amid criticism by President Donald Trump. Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur