BARCELONA — Here in Spain’s second-largest city, famous for sun, sex, and sangria, it’s raining today, the mood is anxious, helicopters are overhead and flags are waving everywhere — the Spanish flag ...

Voting rights have been under siege in the U.S. in recent years, with charges of attempted electoral interference, legislation that seeks to make access to the polls more difficult, and gerrymandering ...

BARCELONA, Spain-- The prime minister of Spain is taking a dramatic step to assert authority over Catalonia after the regional parliament voted to secede from Spain on Friday. Spanish Prime Minister ...

Leaders in Catalonia say voters in the northeast region of Spain overwhelmingly cast ballots for independence from Spain in a Sunday referendum. But the country’s central government won’t recognize ...

Catalonian separatists won a razor-thin majority on Thursday, with the three separatist parties winning a total of 70 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament. But the snap regional election failed ...

About six million people in more than 200 towns, villages and cities in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia will be banned from washing their cars or filling swimming pools as the regional ...