Putin-backed strongman Vucic concedes defeat in Serbia elections
Serbian parliamentary elections unseat Aleksandar Vucic, a Putin-endorsed strongman who led with virtually absolute power for 14 years.
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Serbian parliamentary elections unseat Aleksandar Vucic, a Putin-endorsed strongman who led with virtually absolute power for 14 years.
Republican Senate nominee Ashley Hinson says she'll push back on the president, but her campaign also relies on his loyalists turning out. Meanwhile, Democrat Josh Turek is the only Iowa candidate seeking federal office who explicitly mentions President Trump in general election TV ads.
Trump will return to Iowa twice before the Nov. 3 election. Democrats are running spirited campaigns for governor, Senate and several U.S. House seats in a state Trump carried by 13 percentage points two years ago.
Republican Tom Tiffany raised more than $26 million in the latest two-month reporting period, with more than $24 million from three people. David Crowley is attacking Tiffany's ties to Trump and his billionaire backers.
Clerks should alert county and state officials if ICE, FBI or other officers arrive, under guidance approved Thursday. One Republican commissioner voted no, saying it could scare people away from the polls.
Back-to-back years of water restrictions in the Des Moines area and a growing "Make America Healthy Again" movement have pushed a once-avoided issue into debates, ads and roundtables for candidates in both parties.
A judge has ruled that the U.S. can deport the Palestinian-born leader of Wisconsin's largest mosque on foreign policy grounds.
Illinois and Cook County are hiring for some important roles before the 2026 midterm elections on Nov. 3.
The vice president headlines a Council Bluffs rally Friday, his second Iowa stop this year. He's been one of the GOP's most visible midterm surrogates, with trips to Kansas, Wisconsin and Ohio.
The northwest suburb of Bartlett has dropped a proposal that would have renewed a contract for seven of the village's 15 Flock cameras.
Nicor customers will get a break on their bills this fall after Illinois Attorney General Kwame Roul reached an agreement with the utility to cut $140 million from its requested rate hike.
Chicago aldermen held a hearing Wednesday to get to the bottom of why the Bally's casino has slowed down construction on its sprawling new flagship property in River West.
Turning Point Action is expanding its Iowa presence county by county, with leaders saying high voter participation in the caucuses is the organization's key measure of success.
Johnson says he is addressing his future and the future of Chicago on Sunday, Sept. 13.
A Wisconsin prosecutor says he will not file election bribery charges against billionaire Elon Musk even though the state's bipartisan elections commission said he likely broke state law.
After losing one of the closest House races in the country, Democrat Christina Bohannan is campaigning earlier and deeper into rural Iowa, including counties she did not visit before the 2024 election.
An ad by mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza claims that homicides are down in Chicago due to the work of trauma surgeons. Some say the ad is misleading, but it brings back the conversation about gun violence.
Zach Lahn won the Iowa Republican gubernatorial primary over Trump's endorsed candidate, but three months before Election Day, many in his own party say they still don't know who he is.
Chicago's Mamdani moment might come in the form of a more socialist City Council. The Chicago DSA is working to oust aldermen and advance taxing the rich.
New filing in Trump's Capital One case spotlights the challenge of proving political bias when banks can broadly close accounts at their discretion.
A Dane County judge ruled Tuesday that Wisconsin's paper-only absentee ballot system denies disabled voters the equal opportunity to vote privately and independently, though a trial on electronic voting as a remedy is still ahead.
A judge sided with the Wisconsin Elections Commission Wednesday, ruling that state law does not allow absentee voters to change their ballot after it has been returned — a setback for Democrats amid a scrambled governor's primary field.
Barnes withdrew from the Democratic primary less than two weeks before the Aug. 11 election, on the same day a newspaper reported it had asked him about allegations of inappropriate behavior reviewed by the state party.
John Kelly, who lobbied for the Chicago White Sox, Bally's and the United Center, is the latest name to join the list of candidates to become the city's next mayor
In-person absentee voting began Tuesday in Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, the same day a judge was set to hear arguments on whether voters who already returned mail ballots should be allowed to cancel and recast them.
