JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two candidates who combined received just over 1% of the vote in Alaska’s U.S. House primary last week can advance to November’s ranked choice general election. Matthew Salisbury, a Republican, and John Wayne Howe, who is chairman of the Alaskan Independence Party, can advance, according to results released late Friday by […]
President Joe Biden was spotted continuing his time on the beach during a vacation that has lasted two weeks, raising questions over “who’s running the country.” The president’s vacation started in mid-August, the day after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention’s first night while passing the torch over to Vice President Kamala Harris as […]
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is deep in campaign mode. But not his own. The three-term mayor, whose name is being floated as a possible Democratic candidate for Michigan governor, knows the value of his and his majority Black city’s support for Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election. Duggan, like some […]
BERLIN (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, was on track to become the strongest party in a state election for the first time Sunday in the country’s east, and was roughly level with mainstream conservatives in a second vote, exit polls showed. A new party founded by a prominent leftist was also making […]
Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 158 Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over Moscow and nine over the surrounding region, the Defense Ministry said Sunday. Forty-six of the drones were over the Kursk region, where Ukraine has sent its forces in recent weeks in the largest incursion on Russian soil since World War II. A further 34 […]
The Teamsters still haven’t endorsed a presidential candidate, and are waiting on a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris before doing so. That was the message that Teamsters president Sean O’Brien gave in a Sunday morning interview on CBS, in which he said his union’s membership is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. “We have […]
Republicans looked with hope to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s dropout and endorsement of former President Donald Trump, while Democrats looked with hope to the Democratic National Convention, both sides hoping each respective event would lead to a renewed surge in their candidates. According to a new poll, neither has come to fruition. A new ABC […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he was “heartbroken, devastated, mad” about the news of six Israeli hostages being killed by Hamas overnight. He argued the only way to secure the safe release of those remaining in captivity is to target Iran. “Hamas could care less about the hostages or the Palestinians, and if you want […]
After decades of conflict, including two of the largest regional land wars since the fall of the Soviet Union, rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a possible looming peace deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan witnessed a bloody flashpoint in the otherwise largely peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union, with tensions culminating in a full-scale Azerbaijani invasion in […]
Vice President Kamala Harris is not ready to call herself the 2024 election favorite. A new memo from her campaign says the Harris camp remains “clear underdogs” in the final stretch of the race, which begins on Labor Day and ends on Election Day. “Donald Trump has a motivated base of support, with more support […]
