Tag: election
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Far-right group that invokes Nazi past on track for more state election success in Germany
Polls opened on Sunday in the German state of Brandenburg, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to finish first, aiming to build on recent successes in other eastern states and surpass Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats in this traditional stronghold. The AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election…
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Janet Jackson tells interviewer she’s heard Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing election disinformation
Echoing well-trodden disinformation that has infected the U.S. presidential election, pop icon Janet Jackson said she has heard Vice President Kamala Harris is not Black. The remarks were published Saturday by The Guardian, granted access and interview time as Jackson promotes her latest tour’s European stops. Jackson is also promoting a residency that starts in…
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Heavily indebted Sri Lanka votes in election to decide economic future
Millions of Sri Lankans were casting their votes on Saturday to elect a president who will face the task of bolstering the South Asian country’s fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades. More than 17 million of Sri Lanka’s 22 million people are eligible to vote in an election that has shaped up to…
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Election fears ignite ‘preppers’ already planning for the catastrophic unknown
A private Facebook group that he founded, Michigan Preppers, has nearly 18,000 members, up from about 8,000 since the Covid pandemic. He attributes the growth to a feeling of turmoil during President Joe Biden’s term. Uncertainty fueled by global wars, months of protests, rising costs and another presidential race — with the specter of the…
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Putin was joking about election support for Harris, Kremlin says; Zelenskyy hopes to meet with Trump next week
Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he said Moscow was supporting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Sky News Arabia. Putin said earlier this month that Russia wanted Harris to win the contest in a teasing comment that cited her “infectious” laugh as a reason to prefer…
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How the top election official in America’s biggest swing state is preparing for November
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania’s top state election official, outlined Thursday how administrators in the nation’s biggest battleground state are preparing to take on election misinformation and even potential violence before and after ballots are cast this year. Schmidt, a Republican who in 2020 was a Philadelphia election official and was targeted by…
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Teamsters union declines to endorse in presidential election, breaking decades of precedent
The Teamsters on Wednesday declined to endorse a candidate for president, the first time in decades that the union hasn’t backed a candidate in the presidential election. “Neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business,” Teamsters General President…
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India’s Jammu and Kashmir votes in first regional election in a decade
SRINAGAR, India — Voters lined up outside polling stations in India’s Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence. The nine million registered voters are choosing members for the region’s 90-seat legislature in the three-phase…
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Crypto spending on 2024 election hits $190 million, led by Winklevoss twins
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the biggest individual crypto donors this election cycle, giving a combined $10.1 million, or slightly over $5 million each, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by crypto market and blockchain analyst James Delmore and independently verified by CNBC. With 50 days to go until the November general election, political donations from, or in…