Politics

Reuters reports: Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer will oversee a parliament more ethnically diverse and more female than ever after securing a landslide victory in the election on Thursday that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Black, Asian and ethnic minority lawmakers will represent around 13% of the House of Commons, up from 10% in 2019, when Britain last …

The Arkansas Times reports: They did it. They did it on a shoestring budget, with no organizational support from national groups. Just Arkansas women with clipboards, hustling. With 100,000 signatures in hand and more still being counted, backers of the Arkansas Abortion Amendment say they’ve got the numbers they need to put reproductive rights on the November ballot. And so …

Politico Europe reports: Slovak Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová blamed the LGBTQ+ minority for Europe’s declining fertility rates in a July 3 interview with Slovak tabloid Topky.sk. “We heterosexuals are creating the future, because we make babies. Europe is dying out, babies are not being born because of the excessive number of LGBTQ+ [people]. And the strange thing is [that it’s …

The Washington Post reports: Top advisers to Donald Trump have begun to discuss draft language for the 2024 Republican platform that antiabortion leaders expect will abandon the party’s decades-long call to amend the U.S. Constitution to extend personhood protections to the unborn. The escalating behind-the-scenes disagreement over the abortion language has become so tense and acrimonious in recent weeks that …

Agence France-Presse reports: Britain’s head of state King Charles III officially appointed Labour leader Keir Starmer as prime minister on Friday during an audience at Buckingham Palace. A photograph released by the palace showed the monarch shaking hands with Starmer, whose party won a landslide election victory. The king earlier accepted the resignation of Conservative leader Rishi Sunak. “The King …

The Associated Press reports: Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds the far-right leader received from Saudi Arabia during his time in office, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations. This is Bolsonaro’s second indictment since leaving office, following another in May for allegedly falsifying …

Reuters reports: Britain’s Rishi Sunak said he would meet King Charles to formally resign as prime minister on Friday and would also stand down as leader of the defeated Conservative Party after Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory. “I have given this job my all, but you have sent a clear signal that the government of the …

The BBC reports: Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is returning to power with a huge parliamentary majority of 174, following a collapse in support for the Conservatives. Sir Keir will be formally appointed by the King at Buckingham Palace later, replacing Tory …

The Associated Press reports: People throughout the United Kingdom will elect all 650 members of the House of Commons, one for each local constituency. There are no primaries or run-offs, just a single round of voting today, July 4. Britain uses a “first past the post” system of voting, which means that the candidate that finishes top in each constituency …

Boston’s NPR affiliate reports: Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton says President Biden should bow out of the upcoming election. Speaking with WBUR on Thursday, Moulton said he does not have confidence Biden could defeat former President Trump in November. “President Biden has done enormous service to our country, but now is the time for him to follow in one of our …

Axios reports: President Biden on Thursday spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discussed developments in the negotiations for a hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza. Biden has pushed for a deal for months. White House officials said they want to take advantage of Hamas’ positive response to the latest proposal in order to close the remaining gaps and …

The Hill reports: Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, becoming the second sitting Democratic lawmaker to urge the incumbent to step aside after his lackluster performance in last week’s debate. Grijalva — who has served in Congress since 2003 — told The New York Times in an interview that he will …

The Nebraska Examiner reports: Nebraska appears poised to follow six states since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade to vote on the future of abortion rights in its state constitution. Abortion-rights petition campaign Protect Our Rights said it turned in a record 207,000 signatures since its mid-November 2023 launch, the most in state history for any petition effort. …

Reuters reports: Britain’s Conservative Party all-but conceded election defeat to Keir Starmer’s Labour on Wednesday, a day before polling stations even opened, and warned that the opposition party was on course for a record-breaking victory. Opinion polls show the centre-left Labour Party is set for a big win in Thursday’s vote that would end 14 years of Conservative government and …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Anti-abortion groups launched a campaign Monday to oppose a ballot initiative that would protect abortion rights in Florida, calling the proposal “extreme” and “deceptive.” The effort is getting sizable support from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops and two Catholic dioceses although so far they are being vastly outspent by the pro-4 side. “Amendment 4 was …

NBC News reports: A proposed amendment to enshrine access to abortion in Arizona’s constitution is one step closer to appearing on the November 2024 ballot after organizers submitted far more than the required number of valid signatures to state officials on Wednesday. Arizona for Abortion Access, the group leading the effort, announced it had collected the signatures of more than …

“Joe Biden is a good man and has been a good president. But last week’s debate disturbingly demonstrated that he is unable to effectively prosecute the case against Donald Trump—much less inspire and mobilize voters to the polls. “President Biden passed transformative legislation. He helped bring us out of the pandemic—and led one of the greatest economic recoveries in the …

“It’s a pretty dark world. There’s a lot of darkness, a lot of negativity, and it’s just really at odds with what feels good for me as a human being. And, you know, it’s a really rough business. So for me and my family, it feels right to not participate. “On a human level, it’s my father and I love …

Raw Story reports: Stormy Daniels spoke with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in an interview that aired Tuesday night, detailing harassment and dire financial struggles she faces due to the case. “The biggest thing is that they’re not hiding like they used to,” she said, referring to those wishing to harm her and her family. “It used to be bots, you know, …

NBC News reports: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told her Brothers of Italy party on Tuesday that it should expunge from its ranks anyone who idolizes Italy’s fascist past. Her call came after an undercover media investigation last week released a video of members of her party’s youth wing making fascist salutes and chanting “Sieg Heil.” In a letter to party …