Two days after Charlie Kirk was shot dead on a university campus, Erika Kirk told supporters: "The movement my husband built will not die."

About a dozen New York state and local elected officials were arrested on Thursday during protests at a Manhattan building where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operate holding cells cited by a federal judge for inhumane conditions.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has endorsed Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, a key affirmation for the 33-year-old frontrunner whose candidacy hasn't yet been fully embraced by members of his own party.

Indian-Americans overwhelmingly favour Democratic candidates, contributing nearly three times more to their campaigns than to Republicans, a new study shows.

Democrat nominee for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has said that if he is elected he would order for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested by the New York Police Department if he enters the city.

The trial of a man charged with plotting to shoot Donald Trump on a Florida golf course during last year's election campaign began in earnest Thursday after three days of jury selection.

Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday during a campus event in Utah. He was 31.

Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot at a US university on Wednesday, was the eloquent spokesman for a younger generation of Donald Trump's hard-right Republican movement.

Former foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi is angling to lead the world's fourth-largest economy as it faces fresh turbulence stemming from rising food prices and fallout from US tariffs on its crucial auto sector.

On the night he won Canada's election, Prime Minister Mark Carney summarized his plan to jumpstart the country's economy in response to President Donald Trump's threats.

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, has been the presumptive favorite in the election since soundly beating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary in June.

The BJP's protracted hunt for a new party boss - a search many feel is being overseen by its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh - has drawn a jab from Mohan Bhagwat.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday President Donald Trump will chair a meeting on Gaza at the White House on Wednesday and added that Washington expected Israel's war in the Palestinian territory to be settled by the end of the year.

Community groups with close ties to Beijing have been working behind the scenes in New York City to influence who gets elected and who does not, according to a report in a leading US daily.

John Bolton, whose home and office were searched by federal agents on Friday, has been one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump since serving as a national security adviser in Trump's first administration.

Elon Musk was ordered by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world's richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the US Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.

US President Donald Trump wants to ban mail-in ballots in federal elections, a form of voting popular with many Americans.

Donald Trump pledged on social media that he would do away with both mail voting, which remains popular and is used by about 1/3rd of all voters, and voting machines, some form of which are used in almost all of the country's election jurisdictions.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.

Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterparts were a regular occurrence early in his 25-year tenure.

When US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki in 2018, the pair alarmed allies with a friendly encounter where Trump sided with the Russian leader over his own intelligence agencies on election interference.

President Donald Trump's repeated threats to impose his will on Washington has brought its unique status back into the spotlight.

US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is "most likely" to secure the Republican party nomination for president in 2028.

Donald Trump is pulling hard on the levers of power to strengthen Republicans through redistricting in Texas and other states, the latest offensive in escalating moves by both sides to shape the battlefield of US democracy for the midterm elections.