Polling stations across the UK have opened as voters have their say in the country’s general election after weeks of campaigning. Millions of people will cast their vote between 7am and 10pm, with opinion polls suggesting the opposition Labour Party is on course to secure a big majority in the House of Commons and form […]
Follow The Telegraph’s live coverage of the Trump vs Biden debate Michelle Obama has resisted campaigning for Joe Biden in part because of how the family treated Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, according to reports. While Barack Obama has been helping boost Biden’s 2024 campaign by co-hosting glitzy fundraisers and appearing in promotional videos, the former first […]
PARIS (Reuters) -Campaigning kicked off on Monday for France’s snap parliamentary election which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win, with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance coming third, behind a leftwing ticket. Political uncertainty has triggered heavy selling of French bonds and stocks after Macron unexpectedly called the election, following a trouncing of […]
OXFORD, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have their sights on a handful of battleground states in the White House race, and North Carolina is one of them. Rural voters in particular will play an important role for both campaigns, but the candidates will have to overcome voter indifference, fatigue and even […]
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been offered additional private security by the UK Home Office after a milkshake and other objects have been thrown at him during campaigning for the British general election. A cup and another object were thrown at Mr Farage while he was on top of a party battle bus in […]
PETOSKEY — The Public Schools of Petoskey recently earned a national honor, being recognized as one of 27 School of Excellence awardees by the ACT’s American College Application Campaign (ACAC). Petoskey High School was nominated by the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) for the award. “This is kind of a culmination of 10 years of […]
The Kansas Statehouse dome is seen on May 20, 2024. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) Welcome to Kansas primary season. As of noon Monday, the filing deadline crashed down like the gate to a medieval fortress, and races across the Sunflower State began. Both Republicans and Democrats will battle among themselves to secure a place on the […]
As Claudia Sheinbaum, the front-runner in Mexico’s presidential election, arrives for a rally in a packed park in the colonial city of Orizaba, the crowd starts to chant “Presidenta!” Those attending are convinced that is what she is about to become: Mexico’s first ever woman president. The polls suggest they may well be right. With […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico held the last day of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s nationwide elections, but the closing rallies Wednesday were darkened by a wave of attacks on candidates. Late on Tuesday, a mayoral candidate in the western state of Jalisco was shot multiple times by intruders in his campaign offices. Two members of […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s four main political parties began the final weekend of campaigning Saturday before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country’s most important change in three decades. Supporters of the long-governing African National Congress, which has been in the government ever since the end of white minority rule in 1994, […]
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party on Wednesday banned its top candidate for next month’s European election from making any further campaign appearances and said he would resign from the party’s board immediately. The public demotion came after Maximilian Krah told an Italian newspaper that not all members of the Nazis’ elite […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin, facing a tough reelection fight in one of the races that will determine control of Congress, has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign, and she’s willing to back that up by pledging to change the Senate filibuster rules if Democrats retain control of the chamber. The […]