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Angela Rayner’s stamp duty dodge might be legal – but it’s politically toxic
Questions over the Deputy Prime Minister's homes risk sending confusing messages to voters As MPs prepare to return to Westminster on Monday after the long summer break, Keir Starmer will be keen to ensure his reset – and expected reshuffle – can...

Rise Above Politics: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s Rallying Cry for National Unity and SC/ST Empowerment
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged lawmakers across India to transcend party affiliations when addressing matters of national importance, while voicing deep concern over the dwindling number of legislative sittings and the rising instances of...

Activism Isn’t Enough: Politics Must Protect Kashmir’s Ecology
File Photo: CM Abdullah inspecting flood Tawi food situation. This morning, I got a startling message from Dr. Raja Muzaffar, a well-known social and environmental activist. He said that while Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Surinder...

Trump strips Kamala Harris of Secret Service protection amid political crackdown
Former United States vice president Kamala Harris has lost her Secret Service protection after the Trump administration abruptly ended security coverage that had extended beyond her tenure in office, White House officials confirmed on Friday. The...

Global media tracks Trump tariff fallout—‘political headaches’ for Modi, need for ‘new approach’ to reform
New Delhi: One Indian industry, crucial to the nation’s assent as a global power, that has been struck by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs is the solar industry, a report in The New York Times underlines. For the past several years, India has...

Child homelessness soars in France as aid groups denounce political inaction
More than 2,000 children are sleeping rough on the streets of France due to a lack of emergency shelter, new figures show. Aid groups are demanding the government take urgent action. A report by Unicef France and the Federation of Solidarity...

Ari Fleischer warns: Dems’ ‘mind-boggling’ rejection of faith will ‘kill them politically’
Rival Politicians Throw Punches In Wild Brawl In Mexican Senate
A session in the Mexican Senate turned violent on Wednesday (August 27) when Alejandro "Alito" Moreno, leader of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, Senate president of the ruling Morena Party,...

Indonesians angry over politicians’ “crazy” wage increase
HAITI-POLITICS-OAS hosts high level meeting in support of Haiti-led roadmap initiative
ANTIGUA-POLITICS-Venezuela seeking support in light of US military presence in the region
DOMINICA-POLITICS-Dominica names new High Commissioner to United Kingdom

Canadian author Madeleine Thien makes Barack Obama's 2025 summer reading list The former U.S. president's latest reading list features her novel, The Book of Records, a time-bending story about history, memory and the political forces that shape…
Canadian author Madeleine Thien is on former U.S. president Barack Obama's 2025 summer reading list for her novel The Book of Records. Toward the end of each summer, Obama releases a list of his favourite recent reads. These include fiction and...

Swiss political parties report income of CHF22.4 million for 2024
More Swiss-EU treaties: signatures handed in for Kompass initiative This content was published on Aug 29, 2025 The committee behind the Compass Initiative submitted the signatures it had collected to the Federal Chancellery on Friday. Read more:...

Dozens of Maine candidates launch campaigns for political office in 2026

15 Political Moments In August That Would Have Been Full-Blown Scandals During Any Other Administration
When Texas Republicans proposed redistricting to flip five seats in the House red — a disgusting, blatant display of gerrymandering — over 50 Democratic representatives fled the state, temporarily leaving the legislature unable to vote. Texas...

German State To Track Multiple Nationalities in Crime Data, Sparking Political Row
North Rhine-Westphalia is set to become the first German state to record multiple nationalities of suspects and victims in its crime statistics. The policy, ordered by Interior Minister Herbert Reul (of the centre-right CDU), means that anyone...
South Korea sees high-profile indictments of former PM, ex-president's wife months after political chaos
The wife of South Korea's jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former prime minister were indicted Friday as part of investigations into his administration and his attempt to overcome opposition by declaring martial law. Yoon set off South...

Legalizing cannabis, sports betting, other bills that stirred Hawaiʻi politics in 2025
Reading time: 2 minutes Which bills in Hawaiʻi’s 2025 legislative session drew broad support, and which sparked fierce battles that split longtime allies? According to a new University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) blog post...

The Deadly Cost of Politicizing Crime
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. Another tragedy unfolded in Minneapolis this past week, and the details are telling. Instead of an honest discussion about crime,...