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Democracy overseas: Voting in Argentina for the US midterm elections

01-12-2022 20:27 More than 8.7 million US citizens are scattered across different continents living overseas ― a large source of unrecognised voting power.

by Sade Collier

US ELECTIONS 2022

Republicans make gains in US midterms but no 'red wave'

09-11-2022 17:11 Disappointing night for Donald Trump, who was counting on a powerful Republican showing to boost his expected 2024 run to return to White House.

US MIDTERMS 2022

Biden hits campaign trail in final uphill push to salvage Democrats’ hopes

04-11-2022 00:21 Facing signs of a growing "red wave" that could sweep the opposition Republicans to power in the House and Senate, US President Joe Biden makes his closing pitch ahead of next week’s midterm elections.

UNITED STATES POLITICS

LGBTQ candidates make history in US midterm election

04-11-2022 00:19 A new report from the LGBTQ Victory Fund found that of the 1,065 LGBTQ hopefuls who ran primary campaigns for November's midterms, a historic 678 made it onto the ballot – an 18 percent increase over 2020.

INFLATION IN THE AMERICAS

Biden under pressure as US inflation hits four-decade high

12-02-2022 09:30 US president faces battle to enact spending proposals and retain control of Congress following January inflation report showing large surge in the cost of living.

LGBT+ RIGHTS

'Don't say gay': Sex education fuels US culture wars

09-02-2022 17:24 Swelling mobilisation by US conservatives over what is taught in schools has led several states to push for new curbs on what educators can discuss related to sexual and gender identity.

GERMAN ELECTIONS

Austerity, the far-right and Uyghurs: Merkel's ambivalent legacy

24-09-2021 18:44 While Merkel is largely admired at home and abroad, even in the final weeks of her reign, the legacy she leaves behind is marked both by light and shadows.

GERMAN ELECTIONS

Merkel urges vote for 'stable' Germany as election looms

24-09-2021 18:34 Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a strong pitch to voters for her party as candidates made their final bid for support hours ahead of Sunday's vote.

UNITED STATES

Biden scrambles between multiple political fires

23-09-2021 13:34 US President Joe Biden races to extinguish political fires on the left and right, at home and abroad, in an attempt to save his hopes of transforming the United States.

GERMAN ELECTIONS

Germany readies for election that will end Merkel era

23-09-2021 13:28 Germans vote in an election on Sunday that will mark the end of Angela Merkel's 16 years in power and the beginning of a rare period of unpredictability in Europe's top economy.

CANADIAN ELECTION

Canada's Trudeau wins historic third term but falls short of majority

21-09-2021 14:19 The Liberal victory is a historic milestone for Trudeau, marking only the eighth time a Canadian leader has won three successive elections.

US Politics

Biden says Republicans have lost their way in 'mini-revolution'

05-05-2021 19:10 US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that America's Republicans face an identity crisis after Donald Trump's turbulent presidency.

AS I SEE IT

Joe Biden sounds the retreat

17-04-2021 08:04 Biden, like Trump before him, decided that the time had come to pull all his country’s troops out of Afghanistan. The only difference is in the departure date.

by James Neilson

United States

US House passes police reforms, voting rights bill

04-03-2021 15:33 The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that bans choke holds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of Representatives Wednesday.