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On the eve of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency of the United States, in January 2025, Meta’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that changes would be made to his company’s moderation policies in the name of “freedom of expre…
While votes were still being counted in the U.S. midterm elections, administration figures in Washington were already inviting speculation over how the results might be connected to the conflict with Iran.
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race was one of the most-watched contests in the 2026 midterm elections.
The US midterm elections have shifted the balance of power in Congress, delivering a massive blow to Donald Trump and his Republican party.
Québec’s flagship sovereignist party, the Parti Québecois (PQ), formed a minority government in the recent provincial election.
I visited a family of 19 in Sierra Leone in 2015. By the time I arrived, eight had died. The other 11 were left to live with the grief and fear of what might happen next.
The young men and Hispanic and Latino voters who helped propel Donald Trump to his presidential victory in 2024 swung sharply towards the Democrats in the midterm elections, contributing to the historic defeat for Republicans.
The Democrats’ sweeping victory in the US midterm elections puts them in a stronger position to interfere with President Donald Trump’s agenda.
On 25 October 2026, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured a fourth term in an election that exposed both the resilience of Brazilian democracy and the depth of the far right’s social roots.
Donald Trump’s Republican Party has received a stunning rebuke in the US midterm elections. Republicans went into the evening hoping that the polls might be wrong and that they could at least cling on to control of the Senate.
Voters turned out in massive numbers on Election Day to hand Democrats control of Congress, in a sweeping snub of President Donald Trump and Republicans.
In a politically polarised American electorate, it can be hard to find bipartisan consensus on many issues. Ahead of the US midterm elections, however, there is one thing almost everyone can agree on: concern about government corruption.