• Court rules against sheriff candidate in Charleston Democratic ballot dispute

    MORNING NEWSBREAK  | A state circuit judge ruled Tuesday that political parties control their primary ballots in a decision that will keep former Charleston County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Alan Ali off the county’s Democratic ballot in June. In his ruling steeped in the First Amendment, S.C. Circuit Judge George McFaddin said parties have broad discretion […]

  • Americans Deserve A Presidential Debate, But Democrats Won’t Give It To Them

    Democrats may fear how Biden will perform, but their campaign is also based on delegitimizing Trump and Republicans rather than competing fairly against them.

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    Third-party presidential candidate refuses to condemn Hamas’ actions

    Third-party presidential candidate Cornel West and his running mate Melina Abdullah share their opinions on the Israel-Gaza conflict with CNN’s Abby Phillip.

  • Democratic governor candidate Steve Williams throws down the gauntlet on abortion

    Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Williams says wherever he campaigns, voters ask him about abortion rights. He said on Talkline this week that he has heard from so many women concerned about the issue that he has decided to try to put it before the voters. Williams has called on Governor Jim Justice to include on

  • North Macedonia to hold presidential runoff with center-right candidate in the lead

    North Macedonia will head to a presidential runoff after no candidate secured enough votes to win outright in Wednesday’s first round of balloting held as the country seeks to enter into the European Union. The second round of voting on May 8 will coincide with parliamentary elections. Near-full results from Wednesday's vote showed a strong shift in favor of the candidate backed by the center-right main opposition coalition, VMRO-DPMNE. 17 MACEDONIAN POLICE OFFICERS CHARGED WITH HELPING...

  • Montana Democrats call on Sheehy to release hospital report he says he lied about

    The strange story of Republican Tim Sheehy’s bullet wound just keeps getting stranger. Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL who is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, recently claimed to the Washington Post that he lied to a park ranger when he said he accidentally shot himself in the arm at a national park in 2015. Instead, Sheehy says, he was shot in Afghanistan three years earlier in a possible episode of friendly fire but never reported the injury. He lied to the ranger, he...

  • Senate Democrats say one thing but do another on foreign aid to Israel

    'I think it's beyond belief,' Bernie Sanders told The Independent on

  • Andrew Malkinson says improved DNA tests could have spared him years in jail

    Exclusive: rollout of fresh testing for contested rape and murder convictions ‘should have happened a decade ago’, Malkinson saysAndrew Malkinson has said that an announced rollout of fresh DNA testing for contested rape and murder convictions should have happened a decade ago when the science first became available, a move that would have spared him years in jail.Malkinson was cleared by the appeal court last year after spending 17 years in prison for a 2003 rape he did not commit. His...

  • Tory candidate for London mayor has Trumpian attitude to climate, says Khan

    London mayor expected to criticise Susan Hall in speech launching panels on school roofsSadiq Khan will accuse his Conservative rival in the race to be London’s next mayor of being “Trumpian” over the climate crisis, as he announces plans for solar panels on schools.Khan is expected to acknowledge resistance to his expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) in a speech on Friday but insist that he still intends to “go further”. Continue reading

  • John Bolton says he voted for Dick Cheney in 2020 and will do so again in 2024

    John Bolton, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump who previously served as assistant to the president for national security affairs during a portion of Trump's White House tenure, has revealed that he voted for former Vice President Dick Cheney in 2020 and plans to write in Cheney's name again during the 2024 presidential contest.During an appearance on CNN, Bolton called Cheney a "Reaganite conservative" who would "do an immensely better job than either Trump or Biden." Cheney...

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    Bethesda’s Todd Howard Would ‘Probably Say No’ To An Elder Scrolls Show

    With Amazon’s Fallout series tearing up the review charts, you might be wondering if Bethesda Softworks has any other plans to turn its properties into TV shows or movies. The publisher has quite a few IP under its belt, after all, many of which might make for a solid game-to-show adaptation—like The Elder Scrolls. However, Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard has said that, while he can’t predict the future, he would “probably say no” to an Elder Scrolls TV show right now. IGN stopped...