For decades Germany was allergic to debt. But new chancellor Friedrich Merz has - unexpectedly - loosened the country’s constitutional debt brake, injecting hundreds of billions of euros into the ...

After its stunning success as a protest party, Germany’s far-right AfD or Alternative für Deutschland, has arrived at a ...

Midland City Councilman Jack Ladd Jr. has filed to run for the District 3 seat on the city council. District 3 encompasses ...

Gersdorf’s derailed nomination to the Constitutional Court lays bare how digital outrage and partisan pressure are creeping ...

The controversy surrounding the election of a judge to the Federal Constitutional Court shows how the far-right AfD is being ...

Researchers say a far-right social media campaign— that painted a respected law professor as extremist— caused the suspension ...

There’s one other way that teens can do what adults can: After Newark let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in local school-board races, only 73 new voters — out of 1,851 who had registered — showed up.

Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic ...

In Trump's second term, the president seems to be embracing the concept of Führerprinzip to consolidate his power.

In late June 2025, an image circulating online authentically showed a weather map covered in lava that was broadcast on German news program "Tagesthemen." The original post with the photo of the ...

Texas to consider redrawing congressional maps during special legislative session Republicans hope the effort could help them protect their slim House majority in the 2026 midterm elections.

The NAACP has dropped its lawsuit against Fayette County after a new electoral map that gives fair representation to Black residents was approved.