Troubling signs for the GOP on mail voting
Republicans in 2022 suffered a second straight disappointing election — and a second straight drubbing in mail and absentee voting. So some of their leaders began to push harder for…
Hardly anyone dislikes both candidates anymore
A few months ago, the 2024 presidential election was on course to be an inverse popularity contest. Polls consistently showed that both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump…
Raging wildfire covers Ecuadorian capital in smoke
A wildfire raging in Quito has forced residents to flee their homes and Ecuador’s president to make an emergency return from abroad, as heavy smoke spreads across whole neighborhoods of…
Pope expels a bishop and 9 other people from a Peru movement over ‘sadistic’ abuses
Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10 people – a bishop, priests and laypeople – from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru after a Vatican investigation uncovered…
Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia from Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it supported by…
Dems eye possible Trump investigations if they win House majority
Some House Democrats are already looking at the possibility of investigating former President Donald Trump if they win the House majority in November. Two top lawmakers, Reps. Richard Neal, D-Mass.,…
Walz headed to Ann Arbor for Michigan-Minnesota football game
Gov. Tim Walz will campaign in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, attending the University of Michigan vs. University of Minnesota football game. The vice presidential nominee and former Minnesota high school…
How Democrats have been more consistently ‘pro-life’ than Republicans
The same day that the Supreme Court overturned federal protections for legal abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed a proclamation banning the…
Caroline Ellison, former FTX exec, sentenced to 2 years in prison
Caroline Ellison, whose testimony helped convict her former boss and ex-boyfriend, disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. U.S. District…
Israeli military preparing for possible Lebanon ground incursion, army chief says
Israel’s military chief told troops on Wednesday that its airstrikes in Lebanon were aiming to destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure and to pave the way for a possible ground incursion by Israeli…