"When democracy is treated as optional, it is Black communities who pay the price first and hardest,” said Nadine Smith of Color Of Change.

Brazilians will go to the polls on October 4 to elect a new president, the National Congress, and state governors and legislators. The 79-year-old incumbent president, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, is seeking an unprecedented fourth term.

President Donald Trump has named his choice to succeed Tommy Tuberville in the United States Senate. In a Saturday night social media post, Trump endorsed U.S. Rep. Barry Moore. Trump said Moore is “an America First Patriot who has been with me from the very beginning.”

The first US sale of the Venezuelan crude oil was to a company whose senior member had donated to US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.

The State Board of Elections is investigating a complaint that one of the Republican candidates for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat lives in Florida. She says it’s false.

U.S. officials on Friday confirmed the seizure of a fifth oil tanker linked to Venezuela. Trump said he would meet with top oil executives Friday to plan rebuilding efforts in Venezuela — mentioning that he expects oil companies to invest at least $100 billion.

New Hampshire's Democracy Defense Project lost a big-name co-chairman when former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu decided to re-enter the political arena as a candidate for his former seat.

Mississippi appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The question presented,” the state’s petition said, is whether federal laws “preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.”