Zambia’s president maintained an early lead in elections in which he’s seeking to extend his rule of the copper-rich southern African nation.

Hakainde Hichilema garnered 438,708 votes in 49 of the country’s 226 constituencies announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia late Saturday. His closest rival, opposition leader Brian ...Read more

BOSTON — Calls for the excommunication of Gov. Maura Healey are mounting after she signed a bill removing restrictions on abortion access — though the Archdiocese of Boston has not yet stated how it will respond to the demands.

While church leaders have condemned the new law as “gravely immoral,” the Archdiocese has not declared whether...Read more

MIAMI — Stilt walkers danced to traditional Bahamian festival music. People lined up for plates of home cooked food. Vendors sold snow cones. And candidates exchanged hugs and handshakes with voters amid a sea of political signs.

This was the energetic scene outside the North Dade Regional Library in Miami Gardens where Faith in Florida ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s attack on New York’s in-state tuition and financial aid for undocumented immigrants has migrant college students worried they will be forced to quit school — along with their dreams of getting a degree.

On Monday, President Trump’s Justice Department sued New York and two other states, Connecticut ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Embattled Republican Rep. Cory Mills is locked in a tight reelection race that could be a “toss-up” in November, according to a recent forecast from a prominent political analyst.

But first, Mills, who has struggled to raise money this summer, will have to fend off challenges from three other candidates in the Republican ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For most of his second term, President Donald Trump has been arguing that the “golden age” he promised for America’s economy is already here. There’s hardly been much evidence that voters agreed.

Now, with midterm elections less than three months away and campaigning poised to get underway in earnest, the gap has become ...Read more

President Donald Trump touched down Friday on Long Island to highlight his record on crime and try to boost Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s campaign for governor.

With Blakeman by his side, Trump released FBI statistics showing decreases in violent crime after touring the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City.

“...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump downplayed concerns over conditions for sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, amid an uproar from service members’ families as its deployment to the Middle East approaches nine months.

Numerous relatives of the roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier have voiced outrage at reports ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers and military families are pressing the Pentagon for answers after reports emerged that thousands of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have endured food shortages, plumbing failures and severe fatigue during deployment that has stretched more than 260 days.

The roughly 5,000-person crew, which left San ...Read more

Nigel Farage is returning to Parliament after comfortably defeating a satirical candidate dressed as a trash can, in an election victory that allowed an ethics probe to resume into the Reform UK leader’s personal finances.

Farage got 62.8% of the vote in the constituency centered on the English resort town of Clacton-on-Sea to retain his seat...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge for the District of Idaho has ruled that part of Idaho’s abortion restrictions violate the U.S. Constitution, according to a decision issued Thursday in a case brought by a Boise maternal-fetal medicine specialist.

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill wrote in his decision that the 14th Amendment’s due ...Read more

President Donald Trump will be touching down on Long Island Friday to highlight his record on crime and try to boost Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s campaign for governor.

With Blakeman by his side, Trump plans to release FBI statistics showing decreases in violent crime after touring the Nassau County Police Academy in ...Read more

In the best tradition of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Attorney General Tish James are teaming up to help unaccompanied minors facing deportation proceedings without attorneys, a cruel and inhumane situation exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s relentless attacks against immigrants.

There will be $7.25 million in ...Read more

Parents deserve clarity when making decisions about childhood vaccines. They should not have to choose between political pronouncements and public-health institutions whose credibility has itself been tested in recent years.

The White House’s decision to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines has reignited an important debate ...Read more

TUCKER COUNTY, W.Va. — Tucked in a deep-red district in West Virginia, two tiny tourist towns rest high up in the Allegheny Mountains along the Blackwater River, nestled alongside grand waterfalls, winding hollows and scenic overlooks.

And soon, 10,000 acres between the towns of Thomas and Davis and spanning into neighboring Grant County ...Read more

Nigel Farage is returning to Parliament after winning an election designed to turn the page on questions over his personal finances that saw the Reform UK leader go head-to-head against a satirical candidate dressed as a trash can.

Farage got 22,239 votes in the constituency centered on the English resort town of Clacton-on-Sea to retain his ...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the Navy to return to using steam catapults to launch planes off of aircraft carriers, acting on a longtime complaint despite opposition from many naval officers.

In a presidential memorandum, Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to come up with a plan within 60 days on what would be needed to use ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A late-in-the-campaign push on behalf of three progressive candidates in Florida’s Democratic primaries is generating outrage — unfairly, organizers argue — amid a deepening nationwide rift within the party.

Three events Friday in South Florida were, until late Thursday, being headlined by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib...Read more

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Thursday refused to return $10,000 in recent campaign donations from Rep. Max Miller, the embattled Ohio Republican who’s facing intense scrutiny over domestic violence allegations.

Digging in his heels, Lawler vowed he won’t return the money from Miller until and unless the allegations, including claims by his ...Read more

No one on the front lines of the fight over abortion access in Kansas believes this is the end.

But last week delivered two triumphant moments for abortion rights supporters in the Sunflower State, which has become a regional hub for reproductive healthcare in the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, undoing the federal...Read more