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Remember when Europe was supposed to be the fairy tale promised land for American liberals? When President Donald Trump won in 2024, a certain class of American announced they were packing their bags for the continent’s gentler, wiser, more “civilized” shores. Celebrities declared America unlivable. Online threads filled with advice on digital nomad visas, and […]
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil over Senator Flávio Bolsonaro is being celebrated by progressives as a historic victory for democracy. On Sunday, the left-wing incumbent won an unprecedented fourth term by defeating Bolsonaro by more than 4 million votes, even though he had lost the first round of voting. “All in all, […]
In South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, efforts to contain the virus have been upended. The post How Trump Destroyed South Africa’s Effort to Slow HIV Transmission appeared first on The Intercept .
From NBC's "Kornacki Cam" to CNN's Sightline tool, networks are streaming the raw data behind their midterm election calls. Here's how to follow it Tuesday.
The current Congress has passed fewer bills and conducted less oversight than any of its predecessors in modern history, according to congressional scholars.
The proposed billionaire tax on California's November ballot could slap a one-time 5% levy on wealthy residents, including sports team owners, to raise healthcare funds
US elections from Alaska to Maine will reverberate globally next week, as midterm voting promises to diminish a president who has strong-armed the world.
A recently published found associations between certain maternal health conditions during pregnancy and autism diagnoses across racial and ethnic groups, underscoring how much remains unknown as the Trump administration searches for a cause of autism. Researchers from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine published a study earlier this…
Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) bid to become Tennessee’s next governor is leaving a potential opening for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is viewed as one of the top oversight targets in the next Congress if House Democrats take the majority. Hegseth, a former Army National Guard Major, is interested in the open Tennessee Senate seat,…
A Biden-appointed judge late Friday ruled that the Trump administration exceeded its authority by threatening to prosecute state and county officials who do not comply with its election integrity efforts. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson barred the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security from pressing local election officials to purge registered voters, withhold their ...
State Rep. James Talarico lobbied the Biden administration to create a federally funded corps of abortionists and to convert federal buildings into abortion clinics in Texas. Talarico called women “our neighbors with uteruses,” and said that there are six sexes. He argued during a legislative hearing that “denying a child’s gender identity” — that is, […]
On Oct. 27, the anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome, the dictator’s great-grandson Romano Floriano Mussolini surged forward from his position at far-right back to score his first goal in Italy’s Serie A league for Lazio, the Rome club whose fans traditionally feel that Benito’s goals were, when you think about it, sadly misunderstood, […]
Americans vote on November 3 in midterm elections that could see Republicans lose control of Congress, endangering US President Donald Trump's legislative agenda. Under the US Constitution, elections are organized by the respective states – but that has not halted US President Donald Trump from trying to wield his influence ahead of the vote.
Incumbent Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan’s campaign account on X was temporarily suspended Friday night for purportedly violating the platform’s rules against inauthentic accounts, days after a report that Democrat operatives recruited a same-name challenger to confuse voters in Tuesday’s election. The account, @DanSullivan_AK, has since been restored. .@SenDanSullivan’s (the real one) campaign account on ...
President Donald Trump joked Friday that his voice was operating at just 49.2% after what he described as 28 consecutive days of campaigning, as he prepared for two more rallies Sunday in Iowa and Kansas. “Twenty-eight days in a row of this crap is a lot,” Trump said at a Florida rally, explaining that he had ...
The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened at the end of September in South Los Angeles, after a more than eight-year construction process and failed attempts by the Star Wars creator who funded it to site it in Chicago or San Francisco. George Lucas, who co-founded the museum with his wife, Mellody Hobson, spent […]
The Democratic candidate for Senate has led in polls. But because it’s Texas, he remains the underdog.
