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Champagne flows as former general defeats billionaire populist rival Andrej Babiš by largest margin in the country’s history

System whereby government classifies 50m documents a year threatens national security and democracy, says Jameel Jaffer

After much back-and-forth and strenuous behind the scenes hand-wringing, Germany has cleared the way for its Leopard 2 tanks to join the fight for democracy in Ukraine, pledging this week to send an initial company of 14 tanks and clearing the way for other European countries to do the same.…

MIAMI — Frank Mora, a Miami native and the new U.S. ambassador to the Organization of Americas States, wants to make the organization “even more relevant” amid the “increasing erosion” of the democratic system in Latin America and the Caribbean, he told journalists on Thursday, discarding the possibility that the…

For the past several days the focus of war news has been squarely on Germany’s Olaf Scholz. The chancellor has been battling with his conscience over whether to accede to Volodymyr Zelensky’s plea to supply Ukraine with his country’s fearsome Leopard 2 tanks.

LOS ANGELES — Rep. Adam B. Schiff, a decadeslong fixture in San Fernando Valley politics who rose to national prominence as a top Democratic foe to then-President Trump, announced Thursday that he is joining a contest for U.S. Senate that is quickly shaping up to be highly competitive.

Trump's half-literate, racist lies are a traffic bonanza on social media, so of course they want him back

Here is the story that the mainstream news media should be telling: The Republican Party doesn't support democracy

With his athletic build and bald head, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes cuts an imposing figure