The elections are widely seen as a midterm referendum on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s administration.
The new migration rules that the European Union has been working on for years have crossed one more hurdle. The European Parliament voted in favor of the Migration and Asylum Pact, although some aspects voted on separately faced a narrower margin of victory than others.
Californians vote on many ballot measures, but we almost never participate in significant public debates and discussions about the measures’ contents and impacts. This isn’t simply a result of apathy or poor civic education. Rather, it’s an example of “rational ignorance,” a term coined by the late Stanford-educated economist Anthony Downs in his 1957 book, An Economic Theory of Democracy. The term defines this democratic reality: since you have just one vote out of millions, your individual...
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New Zealand on Friday said it was ready to sign a new cooperation deal with NATO, as the country rethinks security in the face of regional tensions and growing Chinese military might. Foreign minister Winston Peters said after a two-day visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels that a "partnership programme"
As sculptor Agon Qosa put some of the finishing touches to a statue of Tony Blair, he thought about what the former British prime minister had done for Kosovo a quarter of a century ago. Mr Qosa and other ethnic Albanians in Kosovo idolise the former British prime minister for his leadership role during a Nato bombing campaign in 1999 that halted Serb forces’ advances and ultimately helped the small Balkan nation win independence. Twenty-five years on, he is completing a life-size clay statue of...
The concerning discovery was made in Kamituga - a poor, densely populated gold mining town that is feared to be ripe for an explosive outbreak . So far there have been 108 cases.
Maine will become the latest state to join an interstate effort to elect the nation’s president by a popular vote, Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Monday. Mills said she will allow the legislation to become law without her signature, paving the way for Maine to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a proposal aimed at guaranteeing
Across Canada, the burden of premature opioid-related deaths doubled between 2019 and 2021, representing more than one-quarter of deaths among younger adults, a study found.
The House of Representatives has voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act days after some Republicans blocked the legislation from reaching the floor without their demands. NBC News' Ryan Nobles reports on the vote and the amendment that would have limited warrantless surveillance that failed to pass.
(The Center Square) – States and the District of Columbia have allocated about 73% of the roughly $350 billion given out through one federal COVID-19 relief program and spent about 53% of that money as deadlines for using it approach. When Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, it created the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program. The U.S. Treasury allocated $350 billion in State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to tribal governments, states, the...