Politics
‘INDIA HAS REJECTED MODI’S RHETORIC’: BRITISH INDIANS REACT TO ELECTION RESULT
British Indians living across the UK have expressed surprise at the election results in India, with some hoping it will signal a change in the direction of the country. Narendra Modi returned to power for a historic third term as prime minister, in an election with voting staggered across six weeks and more than 600 million Indians heading to…
MEXICO ELECTS CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM AS ITS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN LANDSLIDE VICTORY
Claudia Sheinbaum has won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. Sheinbaum, a leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according…
SURPRISE PRIMARY UPSET LEAVES PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR OUT OF RE-ELECTION BID
Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi conceded defeat Sunday night after losing a primary election against Rep. Jenniffer González, the island’s resident commissioner and nonvoting member of Congress, effectively ending the governor’s re-election bid. In a speech, Pierluisi labeled the defeat as “very painful” and unexpected while also congratulating González on her win and wishing her success as…
MEXICO HOLDS HISTORIC ELECTION IN RACE LARGELY OVERSHADOWED BY VIOLENCE
Voters in Mexico are participating in the country’s largest election ever — casting votes Sunday to fill more than 20,000 local, state and federal positions and almost certainly elect their first female president. But rampant violence has marred the road toward one of the most consequential elections in Mexico’s history. Criminal groups have taken over large parts of Mexico…
ARIZONA DEMOCRATIC PARTY OFFICE OPENING DISRUPTED BY PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS
An Arizona Democratic field office opening celebration Friday afternoon featuring high-profile politicians was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters — four separate times. The third and fourth disruptions occurred while Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Democratic Senate hopeful, was speaking on stage. The fourth protester got inches away from the congressman, pointing her finger at him and yelling, “You take money…
GUILTY VERDICT WILL LIKELY NOT AFFECT PLANS FOR INTEL BRIEFINGS FOR TRUMP
The guilty verdict Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial likely will not affect plans by U.S. intelligence agencies to provide him with briefings after he is formally named the Republican presidential nominee, a U.S. official told NBC News. The intelligence briefings for presidential nominees are not mandated by law but are a…
UNITED KINGDOM’S FIRST BLACK WOMAN LAWMAKER ‘DISMAYED’ BY PROSPECT OF BEING BARRED FROM RUNNING FOR LABOUR
Britain’s first Black woman lawmaker, Diane Abbott, said on Wednesday she was dismayed the opposition Labour Party looked set to bar her as a candidate in the July 4 election over comments she made more than a year ago about Jews and racism. Abbott, 70, was first elected to parliament for Labour in 1987 and, as the country’s longest…
TRUMP ENDORSES PRIMARY CHALLENGER AGAINST GOP REP. BOB GOOD IN VIRGINIA
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ONDO APC PRIMARY: JIMOH IBRAHIM WITHDRAWS CASE AGAINST AIYEDATIWA
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INEC BEGINS VOTER REGISTRATION IN EDO DESPITE POSTPONEMENT CALLS
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