By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – When Claudia Sheinbaum – the frontrunner to become Mexico’s next president – was just six years old, her parents were active participants in protests during one of the darkest periods of the country’s modern history. It was 1968, the Institutional Revolutionary Party had governed Mexico with an iron […]
By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – In early May, Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite to win Mexico’s upcoming presidential election next month, suddenly pulled out of a planned visit to Apatzingan, a town in the violent state of Michoacan. Three sources from her inner circle told Reuters the decision was taken because a drug cartel […]
Bad news for supporters of democracy across the Americas: Claudia Sheinbaum, the government-backed front-runner in Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has suggested that, if she wins, she will maintain Mexico’s current support for Cuba, Venezuela and other dictatorships. In the third and final presidential debate on May 19 Sheinbaum said that “we are going to […]
What to call an electric version of the C segment HR-V? Perhaps the name which Honda came up with seems on overly complicated and hard to remember badge, but it is what it is. At least the lower case e makes sense and fits with the company system of e:HEV for hybrids and ePHEV for […]
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda won the most votes in a weekend presidential election, officials said Monday, but he still faces a runoff in two weeks against Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. Nausėda won 44% of the votes and Šimonytė nearly 20%, according to preliminary results published by Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission. There […]
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Perhaps it was fitting that the first official FrontRunner run began in Ogden, which has many of its ties to rail travel dating back to the transcontinental railroad days. Also, in the first half of the 1900s, rail service between Salt Lake […]
Millions of Indians have begun voting in the second round of multi-phase national elections, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to galvanise voters with his assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics. People lined up outside polling stations as voting opened at 7am on Friday. Turnout is expected to pick up as the day progresses. Indian […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians began voting Friday in the second round of multi-phase national elections as Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to galvanize voters with his assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics. People lined up outside polling stations as voting opened at 7 a.m. Turnout was expected to pick up as the […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Former Mexico City mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum increased her lead in the race for the presidency, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday, some 40 days before the election on June 2. An April 10-13 poll of 1,600 Mexicans by Mitofsky Tendencias for newspaper El Economista gave Sheinbaum, who […]
SALEM, Ohio — When Donald Trump’s team invited Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose last summer to a gathering of Republican elected officials at the former president’s Bedminster golf club, it was a big moment for the Senate hopeful. But it came with a condition — LaRose would have to endorse Trump’s presidential comeback bid, […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Saturday said she’s not prepared to vote for former President Donald Trump, the front-runner in the Republican presidential primary, as she urged voters not to give up on his rival Nikki Haley’s candidacy. In a phone interview with NBC News, Murkowski, who endorsed the former South Carolina governor on Friday, […]
The under-the-radar race to replace Mitch McConnell is a wide-open affair with no clear front-runner, according to many GOP senators, as the top contenders begin jockeying to win over their colleagues for a position central to their party’s agenda and strategy. The election to succeed McConnell – the longest-serving Senate party leader in history who […]