WASHINGTON (AA) – US Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has sharply criticized the Democratic Party following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss in the presidential election to former President Donald Trump. The 83-year-old Vermont senator, a progressive who caucuses with the Democrats, called the party’s campaign strategy “d...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the presidential election in a telephone call to Republican Donald Trump, according to a report. CNN, citing a senior aide, reported Wednesday that Harris “called President-elect Trump to congratulate him on winning the 2024 presidential election.” The network...
An all-time high of at least 170 Native American, Native Hawaiians, and Native Alaskans are on ballots for Tuesday’s presidential election. That’s according to a database collected by the group Advance Native Political Leadership. The organization has been tracking Indigenous candidates since 2016, from school boards all the way to Congress. ...
More than 3.5 million people live in U.S. territories, according to the most recent Census data. However, despite their citizenship status, Americans in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands cannot vote in the presidential election. Residents of American Samoa, another territory, are U.S. nationals rather than...
WASHINGTON (AA) – More than 51 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of next week’s national election, according to data published Tuesday. The University of Florida’s Election Lab reported that 51,354,949 people cast their votes early via in-person voting and mail-in ballots. Roughly 26.8 million people have gone into po...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Monday defended the newspaper’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the upcoming presidential election. “What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one,&...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisia’s electoral authority on Monday announced it had approved three presidential candidates for the October 6 election, including incumbent President Kais Saied, dismissing three other would-be candidates despite court rulings allowing them to run. The three dismissed candidates had last week won appeals at...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia accepted the files of three candidates late Saturday for the Oct. 6 presidential election. Chairman of the Authority, Farouk Bouasker, said at a news conference in Tunis that “the authority received, until the deadline for submitting candidacies on Aug. 5...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly elected running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz held their first rally in the battleground state of Philadelphia on Tuesday evening. The event, which marked Harris’s first public appearance since the Democratic Party confirmed her as its official presidential candidat...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former president Jimmy Carter expressed hope Saturday to vote for Kamala Harris in the presidential election in November. Carter has largely been focused on defeating former President Donald Trump as he approaches his 100th birthday. “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son, Chip, who re...
