Mamdani-backed candidate won New York’s 13th congressional district with no experience in office but ideas for how politics can ‘actually invest in life’
Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander arrives with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for an election night watch party Tuesday, June 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
One year on from the 2025 election wipeout, James Paterson has a blunt message for colleagues still smarting from the electoral drubbing: the Coalition didn’t deserve to win.
Israeli police detained and questioned a veteran Palestinian community leader on Tuesday in what has been condemned as part of a wider campaign of “political persecution” against Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, speaks during a debate between the Michigan Democratic candidates running for U.S. Senate on Thursday, May 28, 2026 on Mackinac Island, Mich. (Danielle James/The Flint Journal via AP)
Police have identified a woman who staged a solo blockade of a vote counting center after the June 3 local elections and issued a summons for her to appear for questioning, sources said Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace is set to convene at a Cyprus resort on June 30 to “adjust its strategy,” an official familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
If Andrew Charlton needed a baptism of fire to prepare him for politics, it came when the former chief economic adviser to Kevin Rudd was parachuted in as Labor’s candidate for the federal seat of Parramatta.
The big question in Westminster today is not who will be prime minister, it's who will Andy Burnham appoint to his government and what will he do with power.
US President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate major oil companies, accusing them of gouging consumers by keeping gasoline prices high despite a drop in the price of oil.
A doctor returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola in France, the country’s Ministry of Health announced Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump criticised Congress passing a symbolic resolution calling for an end to the war with Iran, calling it "poorly timed and meaningless."
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen sided with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after the latter traded barbs with U.S. President Donald Trump in a public spat.
A “violent” AI-generated image of a Sydney Labor MP being kicked by her political rival has sparked backlash as voters are warned to prepare for an influx of AI attack ads ahead of the NSW election.
Vladimir Zelensky will skip this week’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in Poland to keep the gathering free of “scandals,” the Foreign Ministry has said, as a diplomatic row with Warsaw over Kiev’s commemoration of a Nazi-linked wartime unit shows no sign of easing.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has spent months telling voters that the state constitution is under threat from “out-of-state special interests” using ballot initiatives to bypass the Republican-controlled legislature and enact major policy changes. The measures have included legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding M…
Chris Fawkes has the latest forecast, with a rare red weather warning from the Met Office in place for extreme heat for parts of southern England and south Wales.
Israeli troops have killed two people in southern Lebanon, in the first reported fatalities since Sunday. The fragile Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire is a key condition set by Iran for peace talks with the US, a process that has drawn sharp criticism from West Jerusalem.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (Kathmandu Post/ANN) -- In 2010, the Nepal Tourism Board launched a promotional campaign titled "Garmi Se Behal, Chalo Nepal," which means "if you want to escape the heat, take a trip to Nepal."
US President Donald Trump has said he has ordered an investigation into major energy companies, accusing them of "gouging" drivers by not cutting fuel prices after wholesale oil costs fell on global markets.
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Police have identified a woman who staged a solo blockade of a vote counting center after the June 3 local elections and issued a summons for her to appear for questioning, sources said Wednesday.
Brussels is eyeing Armenia as the small Caucasus nation has lately made it's pro-EU aspirations known, given just earlier this month Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's party won parliamentary elections, in a vote widely seen as signififying its major pro-Western shift.
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- A joint police and prosecution team on Wednesday raided the offices of 12 election officials who oversaw polling stations in Seoul that experienced ballot shortages during the June 3 local elections, officials said.
The majority of the Israeli public believes that the lessons of the October 7, 2023, massacre require Israel to maintain defensible borders, buffer zones, and a security presence in strategic areas, according to a new nationwide public opinion survey conducted for the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affair…