Antwon Womack's Birmingham school board win is being challenged in court by opponent Pam Bass, who claims he does not live in the district.

A candidate for Iraq’s upcoming legislative elections was killed in the explosion of a car bomb in northern Baghdad, the ...

Conservative Supreme Court justices seemed inclined Wednesday to restrict the use of race-based redistricting when drawing ...

The Trump administration's top courtroom attorney urged he justices to rule that partisan politics, not racial fairness, ...

U.S. Republicans scored legal victories on Wednesday when a Supreme Court ruling allowed Alabama to ban curbside voting and an Iowa court upheld a law that makes it harder to fix problems with ...

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Wednesday in a major voting rights case, Louisiana v. Callais, that threatens to undermine the Voting Rights Act. Follow here for the latest live news ...

Voting rights activists were relieved in 2023 when, in a surprise to some, the Supreme Court upheld the most important ...

Many international leaders have been forced into hiding during uprisings to avoid incarceration or retaliation.

The bins strike and turmoil within the city council are at the heart of a by-election battle taking place in a Birmingham ...

A Supreme Court ruling for Louisiana could open the door for legislatures to redraw congressional maps across the South.

Dobson, a Republican who ran for congress last year, announced her candidacy for the office in June shortly after current ...

The US Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit ...