LANSING, Mich. — Democratic primaries in two special elections in the Detroit area seeking to break a tie in the Michigan House of Representatives were won by a county commissioner and city councilor who will now go on to face Republican opponents in their Democratic-leaning districts in April. Mai Xiong, a second-term commissioner in Macomb […]
ATLANTA — Officials said court and other systems in Georgia’s most populous county were hacked over the weekend, interrupting routine operations, but the district attorney’s office said the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump is unaffected. Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, was experiencing a “widespread system outage” from a “cybersecurity incident,” county […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ election board on Tuesday is scheduled to consider whether to keep Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot after a recommendation that he be removed over the Constitution’s insurrection provision. The meeting of the Illinois State Board of Elections, which is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, comes a little more […]
NEWS AND OPINION: The 2024 election is already dominating news coverage and is the source of much discussion both in the news media and at the dinner tables of America. Voter turnout could be brisk and millions of dollars will be spent by the political parties crafting their public messages and talking points to suit […]
HELSINKI — Finland faces a runoff presidential election in February between a former prime minister expected to have the advantage and a former foreign minister who negotiated the country’s recent entry into NATO and was the runner-up in Sunday’s first round. With all ballots counted, ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, who led the government in 2014-2015 […]
Can Donald Trump change his campaign stripes? Trump, the runaway winner in both Iowa and New Hampshire and everyone who’s anyone’s pick for the GOP nomination going in to this year’s general election epic battle versus near-sure-to-be-nominated Democrat president senile Joe Biden, is regarded as a shoe-in for being on the ballot this November. But […]
The Arizona Republican Party has a new leader after a scandal forced former chair Jeff DeWit to the sidelines. Gina Swoboda was elected at a party meeting after she collected a massive level of support that included former President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake. “MASSIVE Victory for The Trump & Lake-Endorsed Election […]
The second to worst worst thing that can happen to a civil society is civil war. The only thing worse than that is what Venezuela is living with right now, a dictatorship in which there is no hope of democratic change or equal justice. In Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela his voice is the only one that […]
Pollster Mark Penn predicted that if former President Donald Trump chooses fellow Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley to be his vice president, he would lock up the election. Mr. Penn, publisher of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, told Politico that Mr. Trump would do well to overcome his disdain for his former U.S. ambassador. “Trump has […]
“Today, I make this sacred pledge to you. The defense, protection and preservation of American democracy will remain, as it has been, the central cause of my presidency.” So said President Joe Biden during a Jan. 5 speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. That “sacred pledge” lasted about 2-1/2 weeks. At an abortion rally in Manassas, Virginia, […]
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