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The Federal Communications Commission does not yet have the majority it would need to reinstate net neutrality on the federal level.

Voting laws vary among all 50 states, and there was no simple tool to track all those differences. So NBCLX built one. Storyteller Peter Hull explains Project Democracy and the ballot access map, and we review some of the most striking differences in voting rights from Alabama to Maine.

Close to 6 in 10 Americans say they want the president to make student loan forgiveness a priority, according to a survey. CNBC spoke to some of them.

Wealthy Democratic donors are planning to finance a primary effort against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as she votes against key pieces of their party’s agenda.

Democrats hope to overcome voters’ anger over inflation and Covid, a stalled agenda, and President Biden’s low approval ratings in Senate elections this fall.

Italy is facing political deadlock after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on who should become the country’s next president.

Before President Joe Biden was certified as the election winner, Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to find enough votes to reverse that win.

A secret ballot to elect Italy’s next president begins on Monday — with Prime Minister Mario Draghi among the favorites.

The case against Chad Stark is the first prosecution filed by the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force.

Former President Donald Trump and others are being eyed in a criminal probe in Georgia in connection with the 2020 election against President Joe Biden.

The U.K. prime minister is facing the political battle of his career.

Both the Democratic and Republican Registrars of Voters in Newington have proposed reducing the number of polling places in town from eight to three.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani Giuliani led efforts for Trump after the 2020 election to challenge results that showed President Joe Biden had won.

Should voting be mandatory? In 1924, Australia made mandatory voting the law in a bid to strengthen its democracy. The country also makes voting fun and convenient, with a festival-like atmosphere featuring “democracy sausages.” Australians say it worked — forcing politicians to take positions that appeal to a majority of their constituents rather than the vocal fringes. Can the U.S.,...

Populist parties and politicians lost support all over the world during the pandemic, a survey of more than half a million people has found.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s position is looking increasingly vulnerable as a furor over lockdown ‘parties’ continues.

The impact of a sweeping new voting law that Republicans pushed through last year over Democrats’ protests is drawing fire again.

A scandal over “parties” held at Downing Street, an allegedly in other government departments during Covid lockdowns, could bring down Johnson’s leadership.

Trump ended the call as Inskeep started to ask a question about the deadly invasion of the Capitol last year by a mob of Trump’s supporters.

Biden spoke in Georgia as the Senate prepares to take up voting rights bills, which Republicans are poised to block.