By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A collection of the nation’s leading and biggest spending environmental groups endorsed President Joe Biden’s re-election bid on Wednesday, an early sign that he has consolidated their support despite some recent policy moves that angered climate activists. The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund, billionaire…
CARACAS (Reuters) -The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council Pedro Calzadilla on Thursday announced he would resign along with seven other members, ahead of a 2024 presidential election. The country’s opposition has long alleged that the council is biased toward President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling party. A majority of the council’s 15 members, including Calzadilla and…
By Renee Maltezou SALAMINA, Greece (Reuters) -Greece’s conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis hopes that victory in an election re-run on June 25 will open the way to finally achieve a goal he set when first elected four years ago: for Greece to regain coveted investment grade status. Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party won a May 21 election…
By Ananda Teresia and Kate Lamb JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Constitutional Court will on Thursday rule on a possible change to the country’s electoral system, a decision that has fuelled concerns about political interference in the upcoming February 2024 general and presidential polls. The case, brought by several politicians including from the ruling Democratic Party…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian senator on Thursday said she was followed, aggressively propositioned and inappropriately touched by another senator in parliament house, and called on the government to make the building safer for women. In a tearful address in parliament, independent senator Lidia Thorpe said she has decided not to pursue legal action or…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will nominate the city’s interior minister, Marti Batres, to replace her as she steps down Friday to pursue the ruling party’s candidacy in next year’s presidential election, Sheinbaum said Wednesday. The office of Mexico City mayor is one of the most prominent political posts in the…
(Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House campaign said on Wednesday he had raised $7 million since being indicted on federal charges last week, as his message of political persecution continues to resonate with die-hard supporters. “President Trump Raises Over $6.6 Million and Counting Since Deranged Jack Smith Announced Political Prosecution,” Trump’s campaign…
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – A voting rights lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday overcame fierce Republican opposition to secure U.S. Senate confirmation as a judge on the Manhattan federal district court. Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, was confirmed on a nearly party-line 50-49 vote. Sen. Joe Manchin…
By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska WARSAW (Reuters) – Abortion rights supporters marched through several cities in Poland on Wednesday after the death of a pregnant woman whose family believe she could have survived if she had been offered a termination. Protesters chanted “stop killing us” as they marched through the capital Warsaw towards the health ministry headquarters,…
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a Republican effort to censure Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat who played a leading role in the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump in 2019. The Republican-controlled chamber defeated the motion by a vote of 225 to 196, with 20 Republicans…
