Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

On Friday at 3:14 a.m. a red flag warning was released by the National Weather Service valid between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. The warning is for Waterloo-Cedar Falls as ...

Ukraine announced Wednesday that it is planning new talks with the United States, as Washington’s decision to suspend ...

The commissioners are on track to make their convention center pick this spring ahead of the June 1 deadline set by Senate Enrolled Act 37 (2024).

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest.

One in five German voters put an X in the box for Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday: a record result that has made them the second biggest force in German politics. Riding on the back of ...

open image in gallery AfD supporters waved German flags, including one adorned with an Iron Cross, at the final AfD campaign rally ahead of Thuringia state elections in August 2024 (Sean Gallup ...

Germany’s “people’s parties” might be in danger of losing the support of the people. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), whose three-party coalition collapsed last year after three years in ...

AfD co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on February 23, 2025, after the German election results showed her party ...

Leader of far-right AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Michael Probst ...

A German flag flutters in the wind in front of the cupola of the Reichstag building that houses the Bundestag (lower house of German parliament) on February 24, 2025. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER ...