A voter casts his ballot at an early voting location in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 26, 2022.
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A loud chorus of Democrats – and some Republicans, too – has for years claimed gerrymandering is costing their party seats in Congress. Is it true?
U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrive for a news conference in Ottawa on March 24, 2023.
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Canada and the U.S. have effectively decided to crack down on migrants crossing unofficial border points into Canada. Here’s why this approach misses the bigger picture.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and then U.S Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands in Beijing on December 4, 2013.
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There are fears that escalating US-Chinese tensions could threaten the independence of African and other nonaligned nations.
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Detroit during the 2022 midterm elections.
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Voters in Michigan and Ohio once voted similarly in statewide and federal elections. Now, Michigan swings blue and Ohio is red.
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Despite the bipartisanship over both the China threat and AUKUS, the views of experts are divided.
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The plan will see Australia supplied with nuclear-propulsion submarines more than a decade earlier than preciously envisaged.
From Beijing with friendship? It’s complicated.
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Detente between Tehran and Riyadh will not magically solve all the political and sectarian tensions in the Middle East.
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Election tactics and narratives suggest more threats to US democratic institutions in the next president election.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020 campaign.
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US president Joe Biden is under pressure to drop his vice president from the ticket in 2024, but a couple of things are holding him back.
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Biden can seem like a relic from a different age. But he also represents tradition, a form of politics that is not trapped in constant, partisan trench warfare on every issue.
A Ukrainian soldier trains near a front line in the Russia-Ukraine war on Feb. 18, 2022.
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Considered to have one of the most powerful militaries in the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin has little to show for his invasion of Ukraine.
Surprise visit: Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, welcomes the US president, Joe Biden, to the presidential palace in Kyiv.
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The message is clear: this war must end in Ukraine and the west will do all it can to ensure this outcome.
Some of the hopefuls on stage with Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic debate will line up against him again in 2024.
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The Democratic party has some other strong options.
All good friends: US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin visits the president of the Phllippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jnr.
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Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is playing a delicate game of great power relations between Beijing and Washington.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks to reporters during a news conference on Jan. 23, 2023.
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with President Biden at the White House on Feb. 10, 2023, to discuss several joint issues. But democracy is job one.
President Joe Biden urges lawmakers to ban assault weapons “once and for all.”
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Gun policy scholars explain why even supporters of gun control often believe new restrictions are doomed to fail.
‘Let’s finish the job’: Biden delivers his State of the Union address to Congress.
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Biden’s speech highlighted his administration’s achievements and urged Congress to ‘finish the job’.
US president Joe Biden’s handling of the classified documents discovery could dog the remainder of his first term in office.
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Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been found with classified documents in breach of US law. But there are key differences in each case.
M1 Abrams, a third-generation American main battle tanks, are seen in Poland in September 2022.
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The US tanks could give Ukraine an advantage in pushing back Russia from its territory – but no amount of money alone is enough to win a war.
Special counsels can help administrations avoid the perception of bias, but politics is never fully out of the picture.