The political landscape could be evident before most voters have dinner on Tuesday night. The earliest polls close at 6 p.m. Eastern in two red states, Indiana and Kentucky, where Democrats have contested some races. A picture of how the night will fare for Democrats and Republicans will start to form as results trickle in. […]
Ken Goodrich was just 10 years old when he first held a flashlight to help his tradesman father work at night. The now bestselling author of the E-Myth series and mentor to many people working in construction, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, and other trades, says that the increasing number of parents with high school […]
As same-day voters go to the polls for the midterm elections next week, the Supreme Court will hear a major religious liberty case over a Colorado universal preschool program with implications beyond the Centennial State. The high court will hear arguments in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy on Tuesday. The case deals with Colorado’s […]
A court fight over Democrats’ alleged attempt to siphon votes away from Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) could be just the start of Republicans’ plans to contest the Alaska election results. Alaska’s GOP-run elections office could refuse to certify the race, in effect putting the outcome in limbo if Mary Peltola, Sullivan’s Democratic opponent, is declared […]
Bliss was it in the late 1970s to be alive, as Wordsworth almost said, but to be a domestic terrorist was very heaven. Just ask Indianapolis’s Tony Kiritsis, who, in February of 1977, parlayed an ideological kidnapping into an unlikely turn as a folk hero. Children may wonder how America came to include millions who […]
We are, evidently, in Oscar season — the insufferable period that, admittedly, produces a reliable number of above-average movies but also elicits a stream of sanctimonious blather from movie stars. Too often, they speak of their work with self-regarding reverence and, if handed a gold statuette in a few months, will deem themselves qualified to […]
In 1967, as the Cold War still dominated the country’s collective consciousness, Gene Roddenberry added a young Russian navigator to the bridge of the USS Enterprise. The character cheerfully insisted that Scotch whisky, the Garden of Eden, and most other worthwhile inventions had originated in his homeland. Walter Koenig, who died Oct. 25 at 90, […]
Anti-abortion advocates are testing contrasting strategies in Missouri and Virginia ahead of Nov. 3 ballot measures, pairing a campaign backed by prominent Republicans in Missouri with a locally organized effort led by advocacy groups, physicians, and churches in Virginia. The campaigns could offer lessons for anti-abortion groups, which have struggled to win statewide abortion votes […]
Roughly one-fifth of Minnesota is home to specially-created voter zones called “designated language-minority districts,” where residents struggle to speak English and require assistance with understanding how to vote, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of state electorate statistics. Demographic data published by the Minnesota secretary of state’s office shows that the state has designated 290 […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the right-wing Likud party fell short of gaining a 61-seat majority needed to control the Knesset as the election results were finalized. Netanyahu’s bloc secured 53 seats, while the opposition bloc, led by former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, won 48 seats and the Arab parties […]
