JOHANNESBURG (AP) — This story was first published on April 26, 1994 when AP journalist John Daniszewski reported on South Africa's first all-race election. We are reprinting the story now to mark...

MADRID (AP) — Appealing to Spain's large pool of undecided voters, top candidates on both the right and left are urging Spaniards to choose wisely and keep the far-right at bay in Sunday's general...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's largest gun rights organization played a pivotal role in President Donald Trump's victory in 2016.

Three years later, the National Rifle Association is limping...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan president inaugurated the country's new parliament on Friday, almost six months since elections were held and following long delays, unresolved disputes and...

VARANASI, India (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed nomination papers Friday in a Hindu holy city, hoping to hold onto the seat for a second time in India's general elections.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Republican Party on Thursday urged the state's top election regulator to resign as secretary of state because she is running for the U.S. Senate.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan must redraw dozens of congressional and legislative districts for the 2020 election because Republicans configured them to guarantee their political dominance over...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee could penalize paid voter registration groups with fines for too many incomplete signup forms and criminal penalties for submitting registration forms too late,...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas mayor on the U.S.-Mexico border was charged Thursday with trying to cheat his way into office through an illegal voting scheme in a region long plagued by public...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The chairman of Poland's conservative ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has called the LGBT rights movement a foreign import that threatens the Polish...

PRAGUE (AP) — Europe's far-right political leaders campaigned Thursday in Prague, calling migration and Islam major threats to Europe as they sought to rally support ahead of the European...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — It's now up to the state Senate to decide whether to ask Connecticut voters if early voting in state and local elections and referendums should be allowed.

BERLIN (AP) — A leading candidate for Germany's left-leaning Greens said Thursday that his party won't back any candidate for president of the European Union's executive branch who relies on...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition members have blocked national highways in their latest protest of a government they accuse of being corrupt and linked to organized crime, claims the...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Two former Democratic senators from red states who lost re-election bids in 2018 are leading a campaign to help their party win back votes in rural America.

MASHPEE, Mass. (AP) — Members of a Massachusetts tribe have filed petitions to recall their elected leaders.

The Cape Cod Times reports that Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council member Aaron...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio would join 15 other states with opt-out voter registration under a proposal spearheaded by the state's elections chief.

With the entrance of former Vice President Joe Biden into the 2020 Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, the field is largely set, with all the big names included.

MADRID (AP) — A new generation of young and media-savvy political leaders is vying to become Spain's next prime minister in a general election Sunday. They are all men and less than 50.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The head of one of New Jersey's most powerful Republican county organizations has resigned, just days after he was convicted on federal tax charges.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The outcome of Spain's election on Sunday is anyone's guess.

A substantial pool of voters is still undecided. The country's traditional parties have been diluted. And...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Republican-led Michigan Senate on Wednesday proposed cutting spending in Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office to fund a new redistricting commission, a...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's attorney general denied Wednesday that he had a hand in the hiring of his former law firm to represent the state in a high-profile and potentially lucrative lawsuit...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Republican campaign to unseat deep-red Oklahoma's lone Democrat in Congress is officially underway after a GOP state lawmaker Wednesday jumped into the fray for a seat...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A onetime aide to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was resentenced Wednesday to 13 months — down from 18 — for her role in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver announced her campaign Wednesday for U.S. Senate in 2020, taking on six-term U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján for the Democratic...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The latest on the resentencing of a former aide to ex-Gov. Chris Christie convicted for her role in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scheme (all times...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official told Kirstjen Nielsen, then Homeland Security secretary, not to bring up election security with President Donald Trump, steering her away from...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards is calling for three debates with his Republican challengers in the Louisiana governor's race this fall.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine would automatically register most adults to vote beginning in 2022 under a top Democrat's bill.

Lawmakers held a hearing Wednesday on House Speaker Sara Gideon's...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An effort to promote and protect New Hampshire's cherished first-in-the-nation presidential primary faced some unexpected opposition Wednesday.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Pennsylvania mayor was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for trading city contracts for campaign contributions in a pay-to-play investigation that's...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday to expedite citizenship applications from Ukrainians who live in parts of Ukraine held by Russia-backed separatists, a move...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of former Reading, Pennsylvania, Mayor Vaughn Spencer on corruption charges (all times local):

LONDON (AP) — Scotland should hold a new referendum on independence from the U.K. by 2021 if Britain leaves the European Union, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said Wednesday, even as she...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Bill Powers has won a Tennessee Senate special election.

The Clarksville city councilman and auto dealer defeated Democrat Juanita Charles by about 9...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa's openly gay former police chief has been elected mayor in a landslide victory.

Voters elected 59-year-old Jane Castor in a runoff against 76-year-old retired banker...

MONROE, N.C. (AP) — Republican and unaffiliated voters can start casting early ballots in the North Carolina special congressional election prompted by findings of ballot fraud.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister and his political rival said on Wednesday they were not tailoring their political messages to suit Chinese censors as the politicians...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — In a historic election Tampa voters elected by a wide margin a former police chief and openly-gay woman to be their mayor.

MADRID (AP) — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday ruled out forming a government with the center-right Citizens party if his Socialists win Spain's general election, clearing a major unknown...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge has ruled that a legislative candidate will meet a two-year residency requirement and may appear on the Democratic primary ballot in August.

TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is visiting Michigan to tout the new North American trade agreement and to raise money for President Donald's Trump re-election campaign.

CAIRO (AP) — Voters in Egypt approved constitutional amendments allowing President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to remain in power until 2030, election officials said Tuesday, a move that critics fear...

NEW YORK (AP) — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Tuesday the investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election "had a much harder impact on our democracy"...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's liberal prime minister, whose government has kept an anti-immigrant party at bay in the small nation, warned on Tuesday that the European Union needs new,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite evidence that millions of Hispanics and immigrants could go uncounted, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration's...