The Constitution dictates that the 119th Congress begins at noon et on Friday. And the first order of business in the House is to elect the Constitutional officer...
Suspected people traffickers will face phone bans, social media blocks and travel restrictions under new interim orders that can be in place before any conviction, which...
A healthy democracy depends on people participating in it. In the UK, the proportion of people doing so is falling. Voter turnout in general elections stayed...
UK elections are “close to a tipping point” where they lose legitimacy because of plummeting voter turnout among renters and non-graduates, an influential thinktank has said.Analysis...
The 2020s have been a dismal decade. Five years ago, when the first reports emerged of a new virus that had its origins in the Chinese...
Prisons will need more money to combat the rapid rise in drones delivering drugs, the head of an influential Commons committee has said, as figures showed...
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a warning on Tuesday that the United States must maintain “judicial independence” just weeks away from President-elect Donald Trump’s...
Donald Trump’s decision to sanction the assassination of an elite Iranian commander triggered a chain of events that has revealed Iran as a paper tiger and...
How does one of the party’s new progressive leaders in Congress, answer the challenge? NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to Rep. Greg Casar of Texas. STEVE INSKEEP,...
There he was, falling off a paddleboard, then zooming down a waterslide in a yellow rubber ring. He bungee-jumped, tried surfing, spent a day at a...