Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday kickstarted the “Biden Fight Fund,” touting it as the “largest election protection effort ever assembled” after President Donald Trump’s camp filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, calling for a halt to vote counting. “To make sure every vote is counted, we’re setting up the largest election protection […]
The final countdown has begun, and Donald Trump — on a spree through key swing states — is chasing his Democratic rival Joe Biden, still leading in the polls. The 74-year-old Republican billionaire, seemingly recovered his bout with Covid-19, is holding five rallies in four key states: North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, then Michigan again […]
Tanzania’s two opposition parties on Saturday called on its supporters to take to the streets and demand a rerun in the wake of populist vote President John Magufuli’s election victory, which they have rejected as fraudulent. “We first call for fresh elections as soon as possible. We call for continuous, peaceful, countrywide demonstrations until our […]
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, with Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come. Trump’s choice to fill the vacancy of the late liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg potentially […]
Polls have opened in Chile for a referendum on whether the Pinochet-era constitution should be torn up and replaced by a fresh charter drafted by citizens, a key demand in protests that erupted last year. Fierce anti-government demonstrations over inequality and elitism in one of Latin America’s most advanced economies broke out last fall and […]
The Canadian town Asbestos has voted to rename itself “Val-des-Sources”, the mayor announced Monday, in a hope to shed its association with the deadly mineral. Asbestos, a town 62 miles (100 kilometers) from Montreal with a population of 6,700, is historically entwined with the nearby Jeffrey asbestos mine, which was active until 2012 and was […]
