‘Not an ordinary election’: PM Modi sends personalised letters to NDA candidates ahead of first phase of Lok Sabha polls
Families across India, especially the senior members, would remember the difficulties they had gone through in the five decades of the Congress’ rule, PM Modi said.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: EC to issue notification for phase 4 today, check all details
The polling will be held in 96 constituencies in 10 states and Union territories (UT) in the fourth phase on May 13.
Biden claims uncle vanished after crashing in area of New Guinea with cannibals; Military has different story
President Biden made a stop in Pittsburgh on Wednesday where he told members of the United Steelworkers Union that his uncle vanished in an area of New Guinea that was populated with cannibals, after his plane crashed during World War II. Biden told the steelworkers that after D-Day, his mother’s four brothers volunteered to join Read More
Alabama lawmakers advance bills ensuring Biden appears on November ballot
Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot, mirroring accommodations made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump. Legislative committees in the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate approved identical bills that would push back the state’s certification deadline from 82 days to 74 days before Read More
Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court’s landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died. She was 94. Peters, who also was the first female faculty member at Yale Law School, passed away Tuesday, Read More
Shock poll: Trump edges past Biden in key state, potential sign of cracks in Dems blue wall
Former President Donald Trump holds a two-point edge over President Biden in Wisconsin, according to a new poll on their 2024 presidential election rematch. Trump stands at 51% support among registered voters in the crucial Midwestern battleground, with Biden at 49%, according to a Marquette Law School Poll released on Wednesday. According to the survey, Read More
Sweeping gun control bills awaiting final passage as Maine legislative session nears its end
The Maine Legislature moved in fits and starts toward adjournment on Wednesday, with unfinished business including final votes on a series of gun safety bills that were introduced after the deadliest shooting in state history last fall. The Senate was awaiting an enactment vote on the governor’s gun safety proposals that would strengthen the state’s Read More
Texas Republicans rue Democrats for dismissing Mayorkas impeachment without trial
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the trial the “least legitimate, least substantive, and most politicized impeachment trial in the history of the United States.”
California Democrats ‘mutilate’ anti-trafficking bill targeting adults who pay for sex with minors
California Democrats “mutilated” part of a bipartisan anti-sex trafficking bill this week that makes it a felony for people to purchase sex with minors and requires those convicted to register as sex offenders, according to the lead author of the bill. Democrats added several amendments that only made proposed charges applicable if the child is Read More
Republicans predict Dems to pay ‘heavy price’ in election after Mayorkas impeachment bid fails
Republicans warned that vulnerable Senate Democrats would be punished in the upcoming November general election for their votes to kill the impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Every Democrat will pay a heavy price in November for willfully refusing to end this border crisis,” said Republican conference Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Read More