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Democrats Aim for a Breakthrough for Black Women in the Senate
The Democratic Party has taken heat for not backing Black female candidates in competitive, statewide races, but in November, voters could double the number of Black women ever elected to the Senate.
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Dutch Right-Wing Parties Reach Preliminary Deal to Form a Government
The agreement excludes the populist politician Geert Wilders from becoming prime minister.
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German Court Fines Far-Right Leader for Using Nazi Phrase
Björn Höcke, a state leader of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, repeatedly used the phrase “Everything for Germany,” a slogan of the Nazi paramilitary wing, during campaign stops.
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Finnish Lawmaker Who Fired Gun Outside Bar Is Expelled From Party
The lawmaker, Timo Vornanen, from the right-wing nationalist Finns Party is the latest party figure to come under scrutiny. He said he would continue in Parliament.
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Spain’s Socialists Win Catalan Vote Dominated by Amnesty for Separatists
For the first time in over a decade, the regional government in Catalonia may be led by a party opposed to independence.
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China’s Dead-End Economy Is Bad News for Everyone
On separate visits to Beijing last month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen bore a common message: Chinese manufacturing overcapacity is flooding global markets with cheap Chinese exports, distorting world trade ...
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The Oldest, Most Successful Party in Europe Is Headed for a Wipeout
At 3 a.m. one day last December, a 78-year-old volunteer for the British Conservative Party was reportedly woken by a call from Mark Menzies, the Conservative lawmaker she worked for. He said that he was being held somewhere by “bad people” who ...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
In an interview last week, NewsNation’s Blake Burman asked Speaker Mike Johnson about Marjorie Taylor Greene, and before Burman could finish his question, Johnson responded with classic Southern scorn. “Bless her heart,” he said, and then he told ...
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Just How Dangerous Is Europe’s Rising Far Right?
Jordan Bardella, 28, is the new face of the far right in France. Measured, clean-cut and raised in the hardscrabble northern suburbs of Paris, he laces his speeches with references to Victor Hugo and believes that “no country succeeds by denying or ...
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Rishi Sunak’s Dismal Task: Leading U.K. Conservatives to Likely Defeat
After 14 years of Conservative government, Britain’s voters appear hungry for change. And Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems unable to persuade them otherwise.