US Elections

US Elections

Prime Minister Philip Davis and ruling Progressive Liberal Party seek to clinch rare second consecutive term. A snap election is underway in the Bahamas, where voters are heading to the polls to decide whether to grant Prime Minister Philip Davis and his ruling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) a rare second consecutive term in office. If Davis wins the election on Tuesday, he would be the first leader of the Caribbean island nation to serve a second term in nearly 30 years. He is facing a challenge from the Free National Movement (FNM), led by Michael Pintard.

President Donald Trump declined to answer whether or not he fired Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary on Tuesday afternoon while speaking to reporters before his trip to China. The president was asked by one reporter whether Makary quit or the president fired him. I don't want to say, Trump answered. But Marty's a great guy. Trump was asked the question shortly after The Washington Post reported Makary was resigning on Tuesday; that followed a report last week he was on thin ice with Trump.

Consumers are paying $4.52 a gallon for gasoline nationally, while diesel prices have climbed to $5.64 a gallon nationwide and above $6 in some regions. At the same time, food inflation remains stubborn because trucking costs ripple through nearly every aisle in the grocery store.

Thiel told Fortune in an interview that he will be "less involved" in the forthcoming presidential election, though he does intend to vote for the Republican candidate. And he confirmed for the first time an earlier report that, citing sources familiar with his thinking, he would not financially support any of the candidates. Thiel said that while there were "a lot of different, complicated reasons" for his decision not to donate, he isn't convinced that money matters at the presidential level.

Nearly one third of Americans (30 percent) believe that at least one of the three attempts on President Donald Trump's life over the last two years was staged, according to a new NewsGuard/YouGov poll. For each attempted assassination, a majority of Americans said either that it was staged or that they were not sure averaging 54 percent across all three. Only 38 percent of Americans believe that all three assassination attempts were authentic.

Members are struggling to accept the party is no longer the dominant force it once was Fianna Fáil's official history airbrushes over a few items of "unpleasantness" over the last century - from Dev having his old IRA comrades executed, on to the Arms Trial, through Charlie Haughey's Charvet shirts, stopping by Bertie Ahern's racing tips and bypassing the blame for the economic crash.

Cole Allen made a similar plea to other charges, including assault on a federal officer and firearms offences, as he appeared in Washington federal court on Monday. He did not speak as his attorney entered the plea on his behalf.

Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone.

Preliminary results showed its candidate, David Farley, was on track to win 59.1%, defeating the incumbent center-right Liberal Party by a wide margin. It marks the first time One Nation has won a lower house seat in the federal parliament. Farley, a former agribusiness executive, was the clear favorite heading into the contest for Farrer, a large agricultural electorate some 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Sydney.

The grand jury that investigated Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 election heard from more than 60 witnesses. The transcripts are now available.

A trade court shut down President Donald Trump's 10 percent global tariffs on most U.S. imports Thursday afternoon. In the 2-1 ruling, a panel of judges ultimately blocked the Trump administration from imposing the 10 percent tariffs on the basis that they were not justified under a 1974 trade law. The judges ruled Trump had wrongly invoked the law when he implemented the tariffs on February 20.

A panel of federal judges on Thursday found President Trump had violated the law when he imposed a 10 percent tariff on most U.S. imports, dealing yet another legal setback to the White House in its efforts to wage a trade war without the express permission of Congress. In a split ruling, the Court of International Trade found that Mr. Trump had wrongly invoked a decades-old trade law when he applied those duties beginning in February. The president imposed the levies after his previous set of punishing tariffs was struck down by the Supreme Court.

America's employers a delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war. Hiring was better than the 65,000 forecasters had expected, though it decelerated from the 185,000 jobs created in March. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%.