PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the Democratic governor’s announcement Monday that she’s letting the proposal become law without her signature. Under the proposed compact, each state would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular […]
Elon Musk, the world’s third-richest man, promised Disney shareholders he would dip into his vast wealth to buy up stock in the troubled entertainment giant if they voted hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz onto the board today. The activist investor is losing a bitterly fought proxy war with Bob Iger, whose decision to halt ad […]
The 15-member Milwaukee Common Council will include three new faces when the next four-year term begins April 16. Voters on Tuesday selected their next representatives for three seats where no incumbent ran for re-election. They also strongly backed the five council members who had faced challenges. Seven incumbents ― District 1 Ald. Andrea Pratt, District […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese are heading to the polls Sunday to vote in a tightly contested presidential race marred by months of unrest that threatened democracy in one of West Africa’s most stable nations. The election will take place after much uncertainty following President Macky Sall’s unsuccessful effort to delay the Feb. 25 vote […]
Pollster Frank Luntz recently warned that New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ efforts to seize former President Donald Trump‘s properties could devastate Democrats in the upcoming election. The ex-president recently failed to secure the $464 million appeal bond he needed in the recent New York civil fraud judgment against him. In a Monday court filing, […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly elected Sunday Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister for the second time. Allies of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan in parliament shouted in protest against his appointment, alleging rigging in last month’s election. Speaker Ayaz Sadiq said Sharif secured 201 votes, defeating Omar Ayub of […]
Voters in Finland were electing a new president on Sunday at an unprecedented time for the Nordic nation that is now a Nato member with its eastern border with Russia closed – two things almost unthinkable a few years ago. Polls across the country opened at 9am (0700 GMT) and will close at 8pm (1800 […]
The Anoka-Hennepin school board, nearly one month into its new term, deadlocked Saturday over who should chair the governing body. The six-member board met Saturday morning in hopes of setting a leadership structure and electing officers. But no official votes on either item materialized. Instead, board members spent more than two hours looking for common […]