Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is asking the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezu… December 5, 2023, 8:19 PM ET • 2 min read CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolás … Read more
NESTLED BETWEEN decorative gourds and halloween ornaments on suburban Columbus lawns, signs encourage Ohioans to vote to “protect parents’ rights”. Leaflets declare that mums and dads have “too much to lose”. Only the flyer’s reverse reveals the threat: not a woke curriculum or ideas around gender, but abortion. PREMIUM Anti-abortion rights demonstrators outside the US … Read more
Reporting by Kate Ashton In Melbourne’s affluent inner south-east, these two private school boys decided to vote differently from each other. Blake (left) and Cooper (right) voted in Brighton.(ABC News: Danielle Bonica) Cooper, 18, said he voted Yes because the Voice was a good first step. “Referendums don’t come around that often,” he said after … Read more
HOUSTON – Houstonians are preparing to decide who will be the next mayor of Houston. KPRC 2 and partners Telemundo Houston, Que Onda Magazine and the League of Women Voters of Houston hosted a mayoral debate featuring the five qualifying candidates Tuesday. They are: Annie “Mama” Garcia Lee Kaplan M.J. Khan Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee … Read more
President Biden late Saturday signed the bipartisan deal put forward by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to keep the government funded for 45 days just before a government shutdown was to go into effect. Mr. Biden on Sunday in remarks at the White House said he was “sick and tired” of the brinkmanship. “Enough is enough is enough,” … Read more
The House passed a bill 335-91 Saturday afternoon to fund the government for 45 days, hours before a government shutdown was to go into effect. The bill House Speaker Kevin McCarthy put to a vote ultimately won support from more Democrats than Republicans. Ninety Republicans voted no, and just a single Democrat voted against the short-term funding … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers and other aides of a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in power. The nearly … Read more
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year. The defeat of Issue 1 … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia prosecutor is expected to seek a grand jury indictment in the coming weeks in her investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began investigating more than two years ago, shortly after a recording was … Read more