Federal Court Moves to Drastically Weaken Voting Rights Act
The ruling, which is almost certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, would effectively bar private citizens and civil rights groups from suing under a key provision of the…
November 20, 2023
2024 Presidential Debate Dates and Locations Are Announced
The Commission on Presidential Debates will host three general election forums on Sept. 16, Oct. 1 and Oct. 9. Share full article Presidential candidates will be required to have at…
Podemos clashes with Sumar to avoid being sidelined in new Sánchez government
Left-wing party Unidas Podemos (The Left) continued to fight fiercely within the progressive Sumar platform on Sunday evening to secure at least the key Ministry of Equality in Spanish Prime…
Upcoming interview suggests Polish president does not want Tusk for PM
Donald Tusk will not be my prime minister’ reads the title of an upcoming interview with Polish President Andrzej Duda for the right-wing Sieci weekly, which will be published on…
NATO chief starts tour of Western Balkans
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in Sarajevo on Sunday, kicking off a mini tour of four Western Balkan countries, three of which are not members of the military alliance and…
Rosalynn Carter Helped Shape the Role of the Modern First Lady
Mrs. Carter transformed the unelected, unpaid and sometimes unappreciated position of first lady in ways that reverberate to this day. Share full article Rosalynn Carter, right, working with her personal…
France ready to admit Gaza’s children to its hospitals
France will use all the resources it can mobilise to help evacuate and treat up to 50 children from Gaza in urgent need of care in its hospitals, French President…
Sánchez recruits two MEPs to complete ‘Europeanised’ government
Green EU lawmaker Ernest Urtasún has joined Spain’s new government as the minister of culture and The Left’s MEP Sira Rego will be the new minister for youth and children,…
The Brief – The bicycle migrants
Finland has identified a surge in asylum-seekers from Russia and has taken measures to curb it by closing four of the nine border crossing points along its 1,340 km-long frontier…
Let’s debate amnesty: Constitution or politics?
We must see the amnesty law as a unique opportunity to counter the rejection that Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont incites in public opinion, writes Juan Fernando López Aguilar. Juan Fernando…