Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s (R) office has changed declaration forms to help prevent transgender candidates from being disqualified for not disclosing their “deadname.”

The change came after Vanessa Joy, a transgender woman, was disqualified from running as a Democratic candidate for Ohio’s House District 50 after failing to list all legal names used within the prior five years on her signature petition, WEWS-TV reported.

Billionaire Elon Musk is trying to exert influence over the German election taking place in February, a government spokesperson said on Monday.

“It is indeed the case that Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election,” with X posts and an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) over the weekend, she said.

Musk was free to express his opinion, the spokesperson added. “After all, freedom of opinion also covers the greatest nonsense.”

Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the new governing authority in Syria, said in a Sunday interview that it could take up to four years to hold elections in the country.

In an interview with Saudi television network Al-Arabiyya, al-Sharaa said the different political factions will need to rewrite the country’s constitution and the country’s infrastructure will need to be reconstructed.

“The chance we have today doesn’t come every five or 10 years,” al-Sharaa said in the interview. “We want the constitution to last for the longest time possible.”

In the weeks following the Democrats’ Waterloo, academics and journalists were quick to point to the body count of foreign leaders who have been felled by their electorates’ fickle loyalties over the last few years. After the defenestration of the Conservatives in the U.K., the once unbeatable ANC in South Africa, and even North Macedonia’s Social Democratic Union, Donald Trump’s return to power struck some commentators as simply the American adaptation of an unstoppable global trend.

Lawmakers from South Korea’s opposition party impeached Prime Minister and acting President Han Duck-soo.

The impeachment is the latest event to mar South Korea after a political firestorm following a sudden, unpopular declaration of martial law by President Yoon Suk Yeol. The declaration led to Yoon’s impeachment on Dec. 14.

Han’s impeachment was the first time an interim leader had been impeached in South Korean history. He was in office for just 13 days, making him the shortest-serving leader in South Korean history, a record...

The impeachment of South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo Friday has plunged the country into further political turmoil, coming less than two weeks after lawmakers impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The successive impeachments that suspended the country’s top two officials are unprecedented, and the deputy prime minister and finance minister, Choi Sang-mok, is now South Korea’s new interim leader. Upon taking over power, Choi swiftly ordered the military to boost readiness to thwart potential North Korean...

The European Commission announced today the opening of formal proceedings against TikTok, suspected of breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA) by not adequately mitigating risks linked to the integrity of Romania's election.

Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre demanded on Monday that the government call an immediate election as the Liberals were thrown into chaos by high-profile resignations, saying there is no time to waste with Donald Trump’s inauguration as president just over a month away.