German government coalition collapses as Olaf Scholz sacks Finance Minister Christian Lindner politics Article 35 votes
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau draws bipartisan support for new rule protecting financial data privacy politics Article 15 votes
Iceland on track for snap election as government falls – disagreements on issues including foreign policy and asylum seekers, says Bjarni Benediktsson politics Article 5 votes
Finland's deportation law puts EU's migration norms to the test – human rights organizations sound the alarm over the controversial measure politics Article 20 votes
US House GOP leaders vow to block online privacy bill over intraparty pushback politics Article 19 votes
Swedish EU official Johan Floderus, who has been held in an Iranian prison for more than two years, was released as part of a deal with Tehran politics Article 13 votes
Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament after EU defeat, calls election politics Article 51 votes
Belgium’s agent of chaos – Flemish far-right frontman Tom Van Grieken battles to break up Belgium politics Article 13 votes
School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. politics Article 25 votes
It’s the first time crypto has become an issue in the general election of a US Presidential race politics Article 3 votes
Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis politics Article 14 votes
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's domestically popular tough immigration stance could prove to be a weakness with European Social Democrat colleagues in the upcoming EU elections politics Article 5 votes
Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson will be the country's next prime minister, replacing Katrín Jakobsdóttir who resigned from the post last week politics Article 163 words 4 votes
Researcher calls out misuse of research in book on American white rural rage - suggests resentment over rage politics Article 25 votes
The mystery social media account schooling US Congress on how to do its job politics Article 39 votes
A legal historian who studies the US abortion battle explains why the Alabama state Supreme Court’s decision on in vitro fertilization is so momentous politics Article 35 votes
After seven years in the political wilderness, Alexander Stubb is closing in on a remarkable comeback and new top job: president of Finland politics Article 1040 words 7 votes
Denmark's far-right, populist Nye Borgerlige party is being dissolved – other right-wing parties applaud, spying greater share of votes politics Article 206 words, published Jan 10 2024 14 votes
US diplomats privately criticize US public policy stance towards Israel in leaked memo politics Article 617 words 26 votes
Norway's foreign minister ousted after weapons-maker shares scandal – husband had been making financial deals that could have affected her ministerial duties politics Article 264 words 8 votes
Florida surgeon general rejects FDA guidance, urges people under 65 not to get Covid booster politics Article 696 words, published Sep 13 2023 26 votes
As Finland's presidential election gets underway, one key question looks set to dominate – whom do Finns trust to deal with Russia? politics Article 1030 words 7 votes
Sanna Marin joins Tony Blair Institute – former Finnish PM will advise political leaders in her new role politics Article 309 words 8 votes
A proposed law to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve, led to controversy politics Article 1412 words 41 votes
A series of racism scandals within the new Finnish government has led to calls for a ban on the swastika and the hammer and sickle politics Article 326 words 28 votes
Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin speaks out after far-right government party rocked by three racism scandals politics Article 245 words, published Aug 16 2023 20 votes
Third racism scandal hits Finland's government in space of a month – Wille Rydman used racial slurs in private messages according to Helsingin Sanomat politics Article 333 words 31 votes
Norwegian left-wing party leader Bjørnar Moxnes resigned on Monday after stealing a pair of luxury sunglasses from Oslo airport politics Article 233 words 44 votes
Although Finland's Åland archipelago is strategically located in the Baltic Sea, an agreement prevents any military presence there – but perhaps this could change politics Article 1240 words 8 votes
Finnish far right in talks to join coalition government – negotiations set to begin in early May will include the anti-immigration party Perussuomalaiset politics Article 233 words 5 votes
Finns don't love Sanna Marin as much as you do – prime minister remains popular with voters, but her Sosiaalidemokraattien are trailing their main rival ahead of April 2 election politics Article 1214 words 3 votes
Jan. 6 panel to vote on urging US Department of Justice to prosecute Trump on at least three criminal charges Article 632 words 10 votes
It appears both the West and Beijing itself have grossly overestimated Chinese expansion in Greenland politics Article 976 words, published Oct 22 2022 6 votes
Former leader of a religious right organization said he recruited and coached wealthy volunteers to wine, dine, and entertain conservative Supreme Court justices while pushing conservative positions politics Article 1302 words 12 votes
The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess politics Article 2235 words, published Jun 26 2022 16 votes
The esoteric social movement behind this cycle’s most expensive House race politics Article 3840 words, published May 12 2022 12 votes
Hungary formally lost access this week to over €200 million in grants from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein amid growing concerns about the country's democratic backsliding politics Article 542 words 14 votes
Is gerrymandering about to become more difficult? politics Article 120 words, published May 27 2021 14 votes
Denmark has gone far-right on refugees – Copenhagen claims Damascus is safe enough to send nearly 100 Syrians back politics Article 837 words 7 votes