Presidency

Voters in Peru face another presidential poll after no candidate won outright Sunday's election. Electoral authorities continue counting votes, with two right-wing candidates leading. Keiko Fujimori has 16.92% support, while Rafael López Aliaga has 12.95%. The runoff is set for June 7.

After his 2024 loss to President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis is leaving the door open for another White House bid.

José Antonio Kast, a far-right politician, who has praised Chile's dictatorship, has won the presidency, signaling a sharp rightward shift fueled by fears over crime, migration, and the economy.

Lawmakers are advancing a bill that would ban a physician from aborting a woman’s pregnancy if that physician believes the woman is ending her pregnancy because of a prenatal diagnosis of a disability. Robbie Gaffney speaks with a disability rights advocate.

Ratified in 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution gives the vice president the ability to subsume the powers of the presidency if he has the support of the executive Cabinet.

Few occasions of historical importance have been so shrouded in mystery — and even outright deception — as the health emergencies of world leaders. Here are some of the more egregious examples.

City of Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam is scheduled to announce his 2020 presidential bid on March 30.He's hoping to enter the long list of Democratic…

The media mogul spurred talk of a White House bid with a stirring Golden Globes speech earlier this month. But Winfrey now says she isn't interested in being president.

In Trump's first year in office 34 percent of top aides have either resigned, been fired or moved to different positions. That level of turmoil is off the charts compared with recent presidencies.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds Americans believe Trump has divided the nation in his first year as president. But people who backed him in 2016 continue to stand firmly behind him.

In 2016, Donald Trump offered a list of things he wanted to accomplish as president. As his first anniversary in office approaches, here is what he can check off and what is incomplete.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that Congress, the political parties and the media rank among the least-trusted U.S. institutions in the age of President Trump.