Emergency talks between Somalia’s divided political leaders have ended without agreement on how to proceed with elections, a government minister has announced just days before the president’s mandate expires. Somalia is likely to miss a February 8 deadline to choose a new president after days of negotiations between the central government and federal states collapsed […] Read more
The House will vote Thursday to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, forcing her GOP colleagues to take an on-record stance on the congresswoman who has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory. The vote on Greene, who has refused to publicly back down from unrelenting criticism over a laundry list […] Read more
Democrats are expected take control of the Senate on Wednesday when three new members of the party are sworn in. Democratic Senators-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia and appointee Alex Padilla of California are set to take office in the afternoon, bringing the Senate party split to 50-50. Newly inaugurated Vice President Kamala Harris, who will […] Read more
Before departing Delaware for his inauguration in Washington, President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered an emotional paean to his longtime home and his late son, Beau Biden. Biden, who is set to take office Wednesday, choked up at the top of his brief remarks at the Delaware National Guard headquarters in New Castle, which was named […] Read more
Congress confirmed the election of Joe Biden as president early Thursday, a day after a mob invaded the U.S. Capitol in a chaotic effort to avoid having President Donald Trump be formally recognized as the loser in the race. The affirmation came after the House and Senate overwhelmingly rejected efforts by some Republicans to object to the acceptance of […] Read more
Channels that project themselves as “nationalist” have given relatively scant primetime coverage to the extremely important round of by-elections that have just been completed in Jammu and Kashmir. There was some coverage when the eight-phase election process began in November, but it tapered off thereafter. Although they were by-elections and only for local bodies, they […] Read more
The multilateral approach to global affairs came under attack during President Donald Trump’s administration with the “America First” agenda sweeping aside more cooperative and communal strategies to world trade, diplomacy and politics. But the secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) told on Monday that a Biden presidency is likely to […] Read more
Seventeen states whose elections were won by President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected Electoral College victory. The filing backing Paxton by those states came a day after he asked the Supreme […] Read more
Republican election officials in Georgia on Sunday continued to rebut Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, as the outgoing president tries to pressure the governor to help overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state “The president’s statements are false, they’re misinformation,” Gabriel Sterling, voting system implementation manager for Georgia, told NBC’s “Meet the […] Read more
Arizona and Wisconsin on Monday officially declared that Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in each of those states’ elections, damaging Trump’s long-shot efforts to reverse his projected loss in the Electoral College. Trump, who won both states in the 2016 election, failed to invalidate votes for Biden in legal challenges in Arizona and through a recount of two […] Read more
