President Donald Trump's plans to investigate the possibility of voter fraud in the 2016 election could pave the way for tough voting rules including stringent ID requirements that Democrats and rights groups say would amount to a new assault on voting rights. Trump's frequent and ...

More than half of respondents in a new poll said they plan to vote for Hillary Clinton — the first time the Democratic presidential candidate has breached that all-important 50 percent threshold. The poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University found the former secretary of state ...

Non-Japanese members of the nation's LGBT community tend to feel less discrimination in expressing themselves freely than their Japanese counterparts, although many complain of a lack of support, problems dating, and difficulties in obtaining a spouse visa. Whereas Human Rights Watch recently highlighted the problem ...

Democratic presidential hopefuls fighting for black voters looked for an edge in South Carolina on Friday as Republicans crisscrossed the state in search of a path out of Donald Trump's long shadow. Democrat Hillary Clinton stepped up her hammering of rival Bernie Sanders for what ...

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over the value of university affirmative action policies, and pivotal Justice Anthony Kennedy raised the prospect that the court might put off issuing a broad ruling. In a sometimes-heated argument Wednesday that ran more than 30 minutes beyond ...

Some Republicans are pushing back against aggressive opposition in their party to Syrian refugees resettling in the U.S., in fresh evidence of a rift that threatens to complicate the party's outreach to minorities heading into the 2016 presidential contest. These Republicans have joined Democrats who ...

A landslide victory by Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's historic election has raised questions over whether the Nobel laureate can overcome distrust from leaders of ethnic minorities and solve long-simmering conflicts along Myanmar's borders. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) scored a huge ...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is intensifying his outreach to minority voters in an effort to expand his coalition. The senator spoke Monday at a conference of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Latino advocacy organization. His Democratic competitors, Martin O'Malley and Hillary ...

Liberal Democratic Party-backed candidates lose three of five key mayoral races in the final wave of unified elections as voter turnout sinks to another record low.