[ad_1] Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Istanbul, London and New York CNN — The cries of the women outside a Tehran courthouse swell to a collective wail. The …
Read More »Anti-abortion activists to ‘march with fresh resolve’ in first March for Life in a post-Roe era
[ad_1] CNN — Anti-abortion advocates from across the country gathered in Washington, DC, on Friday for the annual March for Life – the first since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion. This year’s march marks a turn in the fight against abortion rights, …
Read More »Biden and his team feeling vindicated by a 2022 turnaround built on the same decades-old principles
[ad_1] CNN — President Joe Biden spent hours during his first foreign trip behind closed doors, attempting to reassure a shaken group of US allies that America was back. It was clear, he later told advisers, just how much work remained to convince them of the durability of that commitment. …
Read More »Congress passes first legislative response to January 6 Capitol attack
[ad_1] CNN — Congress has passed a measure aimed at making it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, a major moment that marks the first legislative response to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and then-President Donald Trump’s relentless pressure campaign to stay in power despite …
Read More »Eva Kaili: European Parliament VP expelled by party amid corruption probe involving Gulf nation
[ad_1] CNN — Eva Kaili, one of the European Parliament’s vice presidents, has been expelled by her political party in Greece amid a corruption probe. The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), one of Greece’s main opposition parties, said in a statement Friday: “Following the latest developments and the investigation by Belgian …
Read More »Trump isn’t the only thing that could rock American democracy
[ad_1] CNN — American democracy – and the evolving way in which it is executed – is facing a series of fundamental questions beyond former Donald Trump’s election denialism. The former president’s call to end the Constitution for a 2020 election redo has rightly been met with ridicule and eyerolls …
Read More »Opinion: Kevin McCarthy is on the hot seat before his speakership can even begin
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, DC. He is also a former senior policy adviser to Congress’ Joint Economic Committee. Follow him on Twitter. The views expressed in this piece …
Read More »Malaysia faces hung parliament for first time in history
[ad_1] Malaysia was facing a hung parliament for the first time in its history as support for a conservative Islamic alliance prevented major coalitions from winning a simple majority in a general election. Without a clear winner, political uncertainty could persist as Malaysia faces slowing economic growth and rising inflation. …
Read More »A recipe for gridlock: Lawmakers brace for partisan feuds and legislative stalemate
[ad_1] CNN — Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow has seen this before. Nearly a dozen years ago when Barack Obama was president, a newly emboldened House GOP majority came to power, promising to rein in the Democratic agenda, cut spending and investigate a White House they believed had run rampant. …
Read More »Voter ID, citizenship, ranked-choice voting: Here’s what voters in these states decided about rules for future elections
[ad_1] Washington CNN — Voters in several states on Tuesday were asked whether to amend rules that will determine how elections will be run in the future, focusing on issues such as citizenship and registration, photo identification, and early voting. Several states have approved new rules, according to CNN projections. …
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