The House has 27 suffrage bills pending a vote in the full chamber.
Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that he was concerned about a presidential debate because former President Donald Trump "lies and lies and lies." | Clips
Commitments to gender equality in politics are being tested, with just a handful of countries holding elections in which women have a reasonable chance of becoming leaderElections tracker 2024: every vote and why it mattersWith more people set to vote in elections than at any time in history, 2024 is being touted as a test of democracies’ strength around the world, but one thing remains in noticeably short supply – female leadership candidates.Analysis from the Guardian shows that of the 42...
Fine Gael’s popularity lies with homeowners, while 50% of those in council rented accommodation back Sinn Féin.
My father and I only argued about one thing regularly: his driving. Because he had epilepsy. In 1948, when my father was 17, he fell out of a moving car. He was in a coma for three days. A dime-sized titanium plate was put in his skull. Thirteen years later he started having both petit and grand mal seizures. I was 9 years old when I first saw him have a seizure. He was driving the two of us in East Salinas and an elderly man with a cane was walking across the road. Suddenly my father slumped...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Thousands of street vendors play a role in the everyday lives of Las Vegas valley communities. The final stages of implementing a bill backing vendors could make it easier for them. 8 News Now spoke with a sidewalk vendor at a setup of a truck, a table, a tent, and long lines []
Fake extracts of Liz Truss's book have been doing the rounds on social media - with many people struggling to decipher whether they're real.
For homeless people, the only place to store their belongings is on the ground or inside a tent. When city workers clean up a sidewalk and take those belongings and destroy them, the effect is devastating. People have lost their tents, clean clothes, personal records, IDs, medications and more, according to a lawsuit accusing the city of Los Angeles of illegal seizure and destruction of property. Janet Garcia, one of the eight plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Foundation of Los...
The fearmongering I'm seeing from abortion advocates -- that pro-life protections are the reason behind heart-breaking stories -- has only gotten worse.
Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde is unhappy that the media is covering his proliferation of MAGA election conspiracy theories.In a new video posted to X, Hovde — a banking and real estate development executive challenging Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin — complained that news outlets were mischaracterizing his past statements about voting in nursing homes, implying that he was saying senior citizens shouldn't be allowed to vote. In reality, he said, he was just casting doubt that all the...
Commission to seek approval from leaders to start talks with UK on visa-free exchanges for 18- to 30-year-oldsThe European Commission has proposed opening negotiations with the UK to allow mobility enjoyed before Brexit to millions of 18- to 30-year-olds in a major concession.It said it would now seek approval from individual EU leaders to start the talks, which could partly eliminate one of the most controversial elements of Brexit, a block on the right to live in one another’s countries,...
A scheme to allow British under-30s to live and work in the EU has been flatly rejected. Why punish them for older voters’ mistakes?Only those born before 1998 could vote on Brexit, so there is no conceivable way of knowing which way today’s 18- to 30-year-olds would have felt about it. Oh, except there is: 70% of 18- to 24-year-olds think leaving the EU was a bad idea. Of the 25- to 49-year-olds, 66% also think we were wrong to leave. If you can bear to drag your mind back to the immediate...