• Baby loss certificates to be formally introduced in Northern Ireland: Derry MLA welcomes progress

    Earlier this week, the Assembly backed a motion to introduce a scheme and to secure local perinatal and paediatric pathology services. Since 2019, bereaved parents in Northern Ireland must travel to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool for a post-mortem on their child. The Foyle MLA said: “In my years campaigning for improvements in paediatric pathology and early baby loss, I’ve met with hundreds of parents who felt their loss or the topic of miscarriage remained taboo, hushed. While their...

    • Yahoo

    Indonesia court rejects election disputes, upholding president-elect Prabowo's win

    JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the disqualification of winner Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, bringing an end to all election disputes. The Constitutional Court ruled that there was no evidence of systematic fraud and presidential "meddling", nor that state bodies, regional officials and social assistance had been mobilised to sway polls in the world's third-largest...

  • Why Cole Palmer's move from Manchester City to Chelsea was the rare win-win-win-win-win for all parties

    As City and Chelsea square off in the FA Cup quarterfinals Palmer has the

  • Senate moves forward with reauthorization of controversial ‘spy tool’ despite Republican hardliners’ threats to kill bill: Uproar erupts as Republicans demand more fixes for FBI program that stops terror attacks but leaves Americans in BLM sniffed out riots on January 6th

    The Senate voted Thursday to advance development of a controversial spying tool, clearing it for final passage ahead of Friday's deadline. In a 67-32 vote, the Senate invoked cloture, allowing debate on the bill to begin. Senate leaders and intelligence officials have stressed the need to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Authority (FISA) or else “America will go blind.” “With less than a week until FISA authorities expire, time is a luxury the Senate does not...

  • Republicans need high-turnout elections

    For the longest time, it was generally assumed that high-turnout elections would benefit the Democratic Party. But recent polling and election data suggest that this conventional thinking is disconnected from reality. According to a recent poll of the 2024 presidential election, those who had voted in multiple elections since 2018 were more likely to vote […]

  • Granderson: Republicans aren't protecting elections. They don't want democracy

    The next time Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than 60% of the electorate yet had control over more than 80% of the power. When the Democratic governor vetoed attempts to suppress the Black vote, the Republican state Legislature overrode the...

  • Northern Tier prepares for Pennsylvania Primary Elections

    NORTHERN TIER, Pa. (WETM) — The Pennsylvania Presidential Primary Elections are hours away as election stations prepare in Tioga and Bradford Counties. If you're looking to vote in person tomorrow, April 23, polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. If you're unsure where your nearest polling place is, you can go []

  • Trump Has Changed the Rules for How Republicans Win (and Lose)

    Not only is the 2024 presidential election weirder than we imagine, but it is weirder than we can imagine. Former President Donald Trump enjoys an insurmountable 22-point lead among people who don't vote. Presidentish Joe Biden has an insurmountable nine-point lead among those who do. This is all according to Interactive Polls.

  • Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election

    Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Florida Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 1, upholding a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law in 2022. The ruling paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to take effect on May 1. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) A second ruling on the same day allowed an initiative to amend the state...

    • KFDI

    Sedgwick County reveals winning election sticker

    The Sedgwick County Election Office has revealed the winning design for an “I Voted” sticker that will be distributed at polling places in the 2024 elections. The designs were revealed by Election Commissioner Laura Rainwater during Wednesday’s

    • MSNBC

    Why Republicans feel threatened by UAW's Volkswagen win in Chattanooga

    Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to join the United Auto Workers on Friday. The vote was a shocking and historic win that’s bound to further strengthen a rejuvenated organized labor movement. At the same time, it's sending political shockwaves throughout the South and putting Republicans on their back foot. Friday’s vote suggests that workers in Southern red states could be growing more interested in unionizing their workplaces — despite GOP efforts to paint unions as part...

  • Aiyedatiwa Wins Ondo APC Governorship Primary Election

    Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has been declared as the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in the state. Naija News reports that this means that the governor has emerged as the Ondo APC governorship candidate for the forthcoming November 16 election. The Chairman of the Governorship Primary Election Committee […]