Voters around Montana waited in line for hours on Election Day to register to vote and ultimately cast their ballot. Queues of six hours in places like Gallatin and Yellowstone counties meant final votes weren’t tallied until days later, a sign of significant voter turnout across the state — though not the most historically. The 2024…
It’s been a week since the 2024 election, and the administration of President-elect Donald Trump is taking shape. Trump has already named several people who will play key roles, including secretary of state (Sen. Marco Rubio), director of national intelligence (former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard) and attorney general (Rep. Matt Gaetz). Other picks for his…
President-elect Donald Trump returned to the seat of American power Wednesday, visiting both Congress and the White House and laying out his vision as he readies for his second term. President Joe Biden hosted Trump in the Oval Office, where he promised a smooth transfer of power. VOA’s Anita Powell reports from the White House.…
NEW YORK — The decline in U.S. drug overdose deaths appears to have continued this year, giving experts hope the nation is seeing sustained improvement in the persistent epidemic. There were about 97,000 overdose deaths in the 12-month period that ended June 30, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday.…
Welp, that happened. Actually, there’s no past tense about it. Electing Trump is going to have repercussions for years… generations, really. The United States faced a question about who we wanted to be, and unfortunately, the answer is really ugly. The race was between a well-qualified moderate Black and Indian woman and a racist loudmouth…
Hours after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, Dr. Clayton Alfonso had two messages from patients seeking to replace their IUDs. Over the next few days, three women inquired about getting their tubes tied. All of them said the election was the reason they were making these choices now. Requests for long-term…
Pentagon — President-elect Donald Trump has made a largely unexpected pick to run the world’s largest military, nominating Fox News host and decorated veteran Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary. Trump has picked someone who has no previous experience in government or in running a large business. But the Army National Guard officer and “Fox…
U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday chose Senator John Thune to serve as majority leader when they retake control of the chamber next year. In a secret ballot, the South Dakota senator beat Senators John Cornyn and Rick Scott to assume the Republican leadership mantle that Mitch McConnell has held for the past 18 years. The…
Don’t be scared of your backlog of digital rights news, instead, check out EFF’s EFFector newsletter! It’s the one-stop-shop to keeping up with the latest in the fight for online freedoms. This time we cover our expectations and preparations for the next U.S. presidential administration, surveillance towers at the U.S.-Mexico border, and EFF’s new report on the use of AI in Latin America. It…
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet November 16 on the sidelines of the 2024 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC summit in Lima, Peru, the White House announced Wednesday. The meeting follows the leaders’ last in-person engagement a year ago on the sidelines of the APEC summit in California, and…