The last round of ranked-choice ballots showed the left-wing candidate winning 56 percent of the votes, to Cuomo’s 44. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Zohran Mamdani has secured a blowout win over...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters by making it harder to pass amendments...
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged doctors in England to “vote no” in a ballot on industrial action which gets under way on Tuesday. In a BBC interview, he urged resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, to “work with the government” and warned strikes risked hampering the progress being made in the NHS....
Missouri voters passed a voter-led ballot initiative enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution last year. Republican lawmakers in the Missouri state legislature have approved a referendum proposal for voters to decide on that, if passed, would upend newly enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution. Last November, Missouri was one of seven states to...
Smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney after the first ballot of the conclave – the secretive process to choose a new pope. Black smoke means more voting will take place tomorrow. If the smoke had been white a new pope would have been chosen. Follow the latest on this story here. Read full...
Sarah Rainsford Europe Correspondent Getty Images Just over 130 cardinals will gather later this week to vote for a new pope This must be the most secretive election in the world. When 133 Catholic cardinals are shut into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday to choose a successor to Pope Francis, each one will have sworn...
Running hasn’t always been popular. It wasn’t until the mid-late 1970s when a jogging boom took off across the UK. Inspired by trends in the United States, there was a surge in interest in road running as a leisure activity and way of keeping fit and healthy. An estimated one million people now consider themselves...
Nadine Yousif Reporting fromCalgary and Lethbridge, Alberta Eloise Alanna/BBC News Lawyer and rancher Jeffrey Rath says Alberta should be an independent nation state, separate from Canada The threat to Canada’s sovereignty from US President Donald Trump has dominated the election campaign, but the country also faces a challenge from within. Some western Canadians, fed up...
Visually impaired voters in Exeter will once again benefit from extra support at polling stations, with audio ballot papers available for the elections taking place on Thursday 1 May. Voters will be choosing representatives for Devon County Council and participating in City Council by-elections in Mincinglake & Whipton and Topsham wards. Audio ballot papers help...
Montreal, Canada — The United States has loomed large over Canada’s upcoming election, with concerns over President Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats dominating much of the campaign. But for many Canadians, another topic has also been front-of-mind in the lead-up to the vote on April 28: Israel’s war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip....
We share below a recent talk given by Tomás Ibáñez at the Ateneo Libertario La Idea, Madrid, on the 27th of February. The importance and urgency of its subject matter requires no introduction. I shall begin with a note that is merely conceptual, or perhaps simply terminological. I – Fascism and Neo-fascism It is well...
In what North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein called a “dark day” for the state, the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday delivered a partial victory to Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who is challenging some 65,000 votes in his bid to overturn the narrow win of his Democratic opponent and incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Allison...