Kuwait holds second election in two years amid gridlock | Ap | #elections | #alabama
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Voters in Kuwait returned to the polls on Thursday for the second parliamentary elections in less than two years, hoping to move the wealthy Gulf Arab nation out of a prolonged period of political gridlock. Kuwait has the freest and most active assembly in the Persian Gulf, but political power is […]
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Nigerian presidential hopefuls sign election peace accord | Ap | #elections | #alabama
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Presidential candidates in Nigeria signed an accord Thursday committing to a peaceful campaign for the 2023 election. Nearly all of the 18 candidates for president signed the pact at an event in Abuja, the nation’s capital, where authorities also rolled out plans to ensure a hitch-free election. Similar peace accords have […]
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Obama: Republicans embracing rhetoric on immigration that is ‘dangerous’ for the country | Ap | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
SAN DIEGO — Former President Barack Obama said Sunday that the Republican Party is standing in the way of immigration reform and embracing rhetoric that is dangerous for the country. Obama’s comments came during an in-person question-and-answer keynote at San Diego’s annual L’Attitude conference at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. The event spotlights Latino business, innovation […]
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Opposition leads in 1st round of Czech Senate election | Ap | #elections | #alabama
PRAGUE (AP) — The major opposition party in the Czech Republic appeared to be leading Saturday in the first round of elections for one-third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the Senate. With ballots from more than 95% of ballot stations counted, the centrist ANO movement led by former Prime Minister Andrej Babis had […]
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GOP quiet as Arizona Democrats condemn abortion ruling | Ap | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Democrats vowed Saturday to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances, looking to capitalize on an issue they hope will have a major impact on the midterm elections. Republican candidates were silent a day after […]
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Midterm elections are coming. But what, exactly, is a ‘midterm’? | Ap | #elections | #alabama
This November’s elections are called ” midterms ” for a good reason: We’re about halfway into the four-year term President Joe Biden won in 2020. The results will determine whether Biden has a supportive Congress or a hostile one for the next two years. Yet it’s worth remembering that far more state and local races […]
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Buttigieg responds to GOP official Maddock’s ‘weak little girl’ tweet: My kids will ‘have better values’ | Ap | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
DETROIT — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he’s raising his children to “have better values” than Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock, who called him a “weak little girl” on Twitter earlier this week. “If she wants to talk about little girls, Chasten and I are raising a little girl and a little boy. And […]
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At joint rally, Abrams and Warnock project unity and attack GOP health policy | Ap | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
ATLANTA — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams traded warm praise for each other — and slammed Republican health care policy — at a campaign rally Wednesday designed to quell concerns about party unity at the top of the Democratic ticket. The two high-profile Democrats used the rally to tear into Republican opposition to […]
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Uneven enforcement? Rural Georgia county avoids review after election breach | Ap | #elections | #alabama
ATLANTA — In a rural South Georgia county where election officials let outsiders copy confidential voting data, legislators haven’t called for the kind of state takeover or performance review that they supported in the state’s voting law. Coffee County, a consistently Republican area, has escaped that level of scrutiny, unlike its urban neighbor 200 miles […]
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Abortion vote recount proves no fraud in Kansas elections, state’s top election official says | Ap | #elections | #alabama
Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab said Monday the recount of the landslide abortion vote, which reaffirmed the election outcome, shows no major fraud exists in the state’s elections. The recount, which involved examining nearly 60% of the ballots cast, “proves once and for all that there is no systemic election fraud in our state’s […]
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