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HOUSTON (AP) — Nine people, including a former mayor and city council member and the chief of staff to a state representative, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to felony charges brought forth in a rural Texas county by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton as part of a widening elections investigation that is being criticized by Latino rights activists as being …

Election results: 2025 Minnesota special and primary elections on Aug. 12  MPR News Former Brooklyn Park council member wins DFL primary for slain Rep. Melissa Hortman’s House seat  Star Tribune It’s Election Day for Minnesotans, but did voters know that?  FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul See results for Minnesota special primary election to choose candidates to fill slain Rep. Hortman’s seat  CBS News Special election …

Committee Chair Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, left, greets Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., before he testifies before a Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Washington. Source link

Washington — The fight for control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections is underway — long before a single ballot is cast next year.  Texas is fighting to enact a GOP-led redistricting effort that would give Republicans five more seats in the state and help them hold their narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. But it …

Donald Trump US elections State & local races Election security See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link A few weeks ago, Republican election officials in Colorado began receiving unsolicited calls and texts from a GOP consultant who said he was working with the Trump administration on “election integrity.” In a text to one of the officials, the consultant, Jeff Small, …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Redistricting usually happens after the once-a-decade population count by the U.S. Census Bureau or in response to a court ruling. Now, Texas Republicans want to break that tradition — and other states could follow suit. President Trump has asked the Texas Legislature to create districts, in time for next year’s midterm elections, that will send five more …

Premier says he would remain in office to oversee tariff talks with US, but analysts say he faces political headwinds. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says he will remain in office after his ruling coalition suffered a defeat in upper house elections, prompting some of his own party to deliberate his future as the opposition weighed a no-confidence motion. The …

Yen Gains After Japan Elections, Asian Stocks Dip: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg Asia shares, yen look past Japan politics as earnings loom  Reuters Yen firms as investors gird for political uncertainty  Yahoo Finance USD/JPY Outlook: Bullish Momentum Builds Ahead of CPI and FOMC Commentary  FOREX.com USDJPY Technical Analysis – Is this a breakout or just a fakeout?  Forexlive Source link

MADISON, Wis . (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials declared Thursday that the former clerk of the state’s capital city broke several laws related to not counting nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November presidential election, but they stopped short of recommending criminal charges be brought. The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to accept a report finding that the former …

Crypto industry amasses colossal war chest for elections  Politico With $25M Boost from Coinbase, Crypto Sector’s Fairshake PAC Has $141M for Elections  CoinDesk Crypto-focused PAC Fairshake amasses $141 million war chest ahead of 2026 elections  The Block Crypto-Funded Super PAC Fairshake Raises $140M Ahead of Midterm Elections  CryptoRank Crypto PAC Fairshake Amasses $140 Million for Midterm Elections  AInvest Source link