Donald Trump is taking every step of his bid for a third consecutive Republican nomination amid a darkening storm of legal uncertainty. The twice-impeached former president, who tried to steal an election and is accused of fomenting an insurrection, launched his first two-state campaign swing on Saturday as he seeks a stunning political comeback. Then […] Read more
After three rounds of voting, during which the Republican majority was unable to secure enough support to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker, an unprecedented occurrence that had not happened in a century, the US House of Representatives postponed the evening’s presidential election vote until Wednesday morning. McCarthy, a representative from California, was unable in persuading […] Read more
The US House of Representatives committee looking into the Capitol attack unanimously decided to report former President Donald Trump and others to court. The committee stated that it had advised the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Trump and his associates for “obstructing the official procedure for approving the results of the […] Read more
After President Michel Aoun’s tenure ended on October 31, the Lebanese parliament again failed to choose a new leader for the republic. 39 deputies voted for Michel Moawad, receiving 39 votes for the white paper (a blank ballot), and 9 votes for the “New Lebanon.” Badri Daher and Essam Khalifa each garnered five votes, while […] Read more
Most Latin American presidential systems have runoff elections if the first place candidate fails to meet a legal threshold. However, Mexico is not one of them, important when considering that three of the last four presidential elections resulted in winners with less than half of the vote. The 2000 election ended the PRI’s 74 years […] Read more
Voters in government-held parts of Syria are heading to the polls to cast ballots in an election that is set to cement a fourth term for Bashar al-Assad – but is dismissed by the opposition and Western powers as a farce. Wednesday’s presidential vote is the second since the beginning of Syria’s uprising-turned-war a decade […] Read more
Several progressive organizations have banded together to launch a new influence campaign to target groups, such as billionaire Charles Koch’s political network, which have pushed back on significant elements of President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar agenda. Details of the campaign, called “Stop Deficit Squawks,” were first shared with CNBC. It launched Monday. Nearly 20 groups have […] Read more
Amazon on Friday secured enough votes to defeat the unionization drive at one of its Alabama warehouses, delivering a blow to organized labor who hoped to unionize a U.S. Amazon facility for the first time. Of the 3,215 ballots cast, there were 1,798 votes opposing the union and 738 in favor. Approximately 5,800 workers at the […] Read more
President-elect Joe Biden went to Atlanta a day before the Georgia Senate runoff to do more than boost the two Democrats in Tuesday’s election. As he stumped for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Biden stressed that votes in Georgia will ripple beyond the Peach State to shape the success of the incoming president’s agenda nationwide. “By electing […] Read more
Seventeen states whose elections were won by President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected Electoral College victory. The filing backing Paxton by those states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission […] Read more
