Elections & Campaigns News

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, CAGW released its 2026 Congressional Pig Book, the 33rd edition of the group’s exposé on pork-barrel spending....

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Government of Antigua and Barbuda nominated Her Excellency María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés as its candidate for Secretary General of the UN...

VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--B.C.’s largest union has set course for the next year after wrapping up the CUPE BC annual convention. Over 500 delegates from across the province passed more than 45 resolutions directing the union advocacy on behalf of workers and B.C. public services. A top priority for the union, representing over 120,000 workers in B.C., will be working to elect progressive candidates in the upcoming municipal elections. “In communities across the province, CUPE...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The European Union’s intervention in the upcoming parliamentary election in Armenia has breached its own rules and laws on election interference, a new report by Amsterdam & Partners LLP lays out. Interference by design, penned by the international law firm in its capacity as counsel to Armenian opposition leader Samvel Karapetyan, warns that “the EU has moved from silence (on) the Armenian government’s democratic backsliding to active, non-neutral, and structur...

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veteran and law enforcement officer Erik Pacheco is running for Christian County Sheriff in the May 19 Republican Primary....

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Trustees of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and educational organizations in the United States dedicated to promoting classical liberal and free market ideas, has appointed Dr. Samuel Gregg as its new President. Gregg served as interim president after the previous incumbent, Dr. William Ruger, accepted the position of Deputy Director of National Intellig...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nina Schwalbe, Democratic candidate for New York’s 12th Congressional District, is the subject of a major profile published April 2, 2026, in The Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals. The profile highlights Schwalbe’s extraordinary career in global health and her urgent call to restore scientific expertise and evidence-based leadership to the U.S. Congress. The profile details Schwalbe’s trajectory from witnessing a measles outbreak...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hart InterCivic announced Texas certification of its Verity Vanguard™ voting system, the sixth state to approve the VVSG 2.0‑certified system....

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Entravision, a leading global media, marketing, and technology company, announced the expanded relaunch of Politics con Acento, a digital-first bilingual show and video podcast for the Latino voting community. The show, hosted by Entravision’s established White House Correspondent Stephanie Ochoa, will now also air weekly as a one-hour bilingual TV show across Entravision's 21 Univision affiliates, Altavision, WAPA Orlando 26, digital, and social media platforms. T...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amsterdam & Partners LLP, the international law firm acting for Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the of the newly formed Strong Armenia party, have today appealed to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas to intervene to ensure that elections set for June this year are not invalidated by heavy-handed official interference. The letter was sent in response to Brussels' announcement that it would deploy a Hybrid Rapid Response Team to monitor the vote. Failure to ensure that...