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Maine GOP Candidate Jim Libby Exits Race After Clean Elections Funding Denied

The decision highlights strict documentation rules in Maine's public campaign finance system.

ActBlue Was Warned It May Have Misled Congress on Foreign-Donation Screening

Opaque Group Offered $1,500 to Influencers to Attack Illinois Candidate Kat Abughazaleh

Paris Sets Sept. 9–Oct. 5 Appeal for François Bayrou in MoDem Assistants Case

Retrial Opens in Munich Over Wolbergs’ 2014 Campaign Donations

Gallardo Defends Wife’s Potential Run as Morena Bars Relatives From 2027 Nominations

Paris Court Convicts LFI Candidate Aly Diouara of Defamation in La Courneuve Race

Haryana Congress Chief Denies Cash-for-Ticket Claim After Leader’s Husband Says He Paid Crores

SPD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rejects CDU Nepotism Allegations Linked to AfD Cases

Bundestag Clears Renewed Searches in Maximilian Krah Investigation

Peru’s Supreme Court Upholds Bank-Secrecy Lift for Pedro Castillo in ‘Los Niños’ Probe

Judge Halts Burt Jones’ Leadership Committee, Orders Ad Cancellations

FIA Adds Two Suspects in PTI Funding Case as Court Sets March 5 Charge-Sheet Deadline

Leire Díez Moves to Block PSOE Probe, Denies Any Ties to Sánchez’s Government

NCP Panel Meets on Zirwal’s Future After Clerk’s Bribe Arrest at Mantralaya

Elections Commissioner Says Freeland Violated Elections Act With Byelection Comments at Government Events

CDU Probes Schwesig Spokesperson’s PR Links After State Paid Related Firms

German Court Upholds Bundestag’s Denial of AfD Aide’s House Pass Over Russia Links

Ex–San Leandro Councilmember Pleads Guilty in East Bay Bribery Case, Agrees to Cooperate

ÖVP Leader August Wöginger Goes on Trial Over 2017 Tax Office Appointment