France election live: Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally at ‘gates of power’, PM warns | France
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature A BFMTV graph showed the final results of the first round of voting, with the Rally National on 33.14%, followed by the New Popular Front left-wing coalition on 27.99% and Macron’s centrist Together coalition on 20.76%. share How did individual candidates perform? […]
Far-right National Rally in reach of being dominant French party after election first round | France
Marine Le Pen’s far-right, anti-immigration party is on the verge of becoming the largest political force in France’s parliament after winning its highest-ever share of the vote in the first round of surprise parliamentary elections. After exit polls showed the far-right had won, left and center candidates began calling for strategic voting to thwart the […]
Utah fire captain dies in Colorado rafting accident at Dinosaur National Monument
A Utah man killed in a rafting accident at Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado has been identified as a 27-year veteran of the Salt Lake City Fire Department. According to the National Park Service, Michael Harp, 54, was on a licensed private rafting trip on the Green River in Lodore Canyon around 4 p.m. Thursday […]
WILFORD: The Debate Was Devoid Of One Of America’s Most Pressing Issues — National Debt
Whoever wins the 2024 election will have a thankless task ahead of them: figuring out how to get through an extension of a tax cut bill that no one is willing to throw out the window in its entirety, while keeping in mind a looming and growing national debt crisis. This task is hard enough […]
Biden joins Elton John, Hochul at opening of NYC Stonewall Inn national monument
President Biden was in New York on Friday to attend the grand opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor’s Center, marking the 55th anniversary of the historic riots that launched the American gay rights movement. Still reeling from his terrible performance in Thursday’s presidential debate with Donald Trump that shocked the nation, the 81-year-old Trump […]
All politics is … national!
The phrase “all politics is local politics” has been common in American political discourse for nearly a century. While the phrase still holds true today, the reality is changing. National politics now often drive local politics, and this dynamic is accelerating. The phrase originated in the 1930s as Americans began to live in cities rather […]
Jimmy Lai’s Imprisonment Is a Blueprint for How Authoritarians Use ‘National Security’ to Crush Political Dissent
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes As Hong Kong slipped slowly into authoritarianism, media mogul Jimmy Lai did something extraordinary: he continued to resist Beijing. Today the 76-year-old Hong Konger remains in solitary confinement in a Chinese prison. When Jimmy Lai was a child working the streets of Canton (Guangzhou), China, in the 1950s, he received […]
Watch Malfunctioning Fire Suppression System Cover National Guard Building In Foam
Video was released Tuesday showing about 800 gallons of chemical foam being released from a faulty fire suppression system at a Vermont National Guard base, multiple media outlets reported. A video tweeted by Breaking Aviation News & Videos showed tons of foam pouring down from the ceiling of a National Guard hangar in South Burlington.(Related […]
Trump tops Biden by 4 points among likely voters in national survey
Former President Trump led President Biden by 4 points among likely voters, according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll. of voteA poll released Wednesday found that 48% of voters said they would vote for Trump if the two presidents were to face off hypothetically. In the same survey, 44% said they would vote […]
Trump pulls ahead of Biden in head-to-head match-up: National survey
Former President Trump is trailing President Biden by four points nationally. New poll. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found Trump’s approval rating at 49% and Biden’s at 45% — a big improvement for Trump compared to a poll last month in which Biden had a slim one-point lead. If third-party candidates are included, Trump’s […]