37+ min ago   (1282+ words) Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said the Trump administration’s scrutiny of the state’s election process is an effort to intimidate officials and suppress voting ahead of the November midterm election. “This is all an effort to really force Nevada…...

58+ min ago   (454+ words) ‘Shake off the aura’: Novelist Amitabha Bagchi on originality and borrowing in literary writing Flu shots prevent serious illness but why don’t many Indians take them? Why do anti-reservation ideologues love the creamy layer so much? Indonesia asks India to…...

14+ hour, 38+ min ago   (173+ words) Tens of thousands demonstrated across Germany against far-right extremism on Saturday, with major rallies held in Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, almost a week after the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's historic election win. Sunday's election win for the AfD…...

48+ min ago   (545+ words) President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting — a move that some argue usurps constitutional, congressional and state authority. Amid a national legal battle over the use of mail-in voting ahead of this year's midterm elections,…...

8+ hour, 58+ min ago   (438+ words) President Donald Trump is under fire for accusing former President Barack Obama of buying voters after vowing this week to pay voters $5,000 dividends if his party maintains control of Congress after the November midterms. Trump made the announcement earlier this…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (603+ words) The Texas Supreme Court ruled Galveston County cannot use its newly drawn precinct map in November's election. The court said primary and general elections are one election, so boundaries cannot change between them. Galveston County must use the precinct map…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago   (773+ words) Wisconsin’s congressional delegation is split over President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 checks to every American adult if Republicans win in the midterms. Speaking at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Trump pledged to give $5,000 to every adult U.S....

1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (584+ words) By Simon Johnson and Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Swedes vote in an election on Sunday that will either bring a far-right party into government for the first time or shift the country back towards the liberalism it has long…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (586+ words) NAHA, Japan - Voting began Sunday for the Okinawa gubernatorial election with the incumbent, who opposes a contentious U.S. military base relocation in the southern Japanese island prefecture, pitted against a candidate backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling coalition. The relocation…...

8+ hour, 58+ min ago   (857+ words) US President Donald Trump has turned his focus to golf after triggering a diplomatic row as he backed a united Ireland on the first day of his trip to the country. Speaking to reporters, Trump claimed Irish reunification was inevitable,…...