Sri Lanka parliamentary elections 2024: What’s at stake? | Elections News

Sri Lanka parliamentary elections 2024: What’s at stake? | Elections News

Sri Lankans will cast ballots in a snap parliamentary election on Thursday, months after electing a Marxist-leaning president in the Indian island nation’s first election since the 2022 economic meltdown and political crisis. The election was called by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who won the September election after blaming the…

Trump picks loyalist Matt Gaetz of Florida as US attorney general | Donald Trump News

Trump picks loyalist Matt Gaetz of Florida as US attorney general | Donald Trump News

United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, 42, will serve as his attorney general, a role that doubles as the country’s top prosecutor and the head of the Department of Justice. Trump announced the nomination in a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday,…

Trump taps Cuban American Marco Rubio to lead the US State Department | Donald Trump News

Trump taps Cuban American Marco Rubio to lead the US State Department | Donald Trump News

Putting an end to days of speculation, United States President-elect Donald Trump nominated Florida Senator Marco Rubio to lead the State Department under the incoming administration. The choice of his former political rival had been rumoured for days and signals the new administration’s commitment to a hawkish foreign policy. A…

Lara Trump is the top choice to replace Marco Rubio as Florida senator: ‘She needs to make a decision’
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Lara Trump is the top choice to replace Marco Rubio as Florida senator: ‘She needs to make a decision’

President-elect Donald Trump is tapping Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as the next secretary of state, and the Capitol Hill vacancy created could soon be filled by a quite literally familiar name, The Post can reveal: the once and future prez’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. Those close to the 42-year-old mother of…

Trump makes triumphant post-election return to Washington
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Trump makes triumphant post-election return to Washington

He’s baaaa-aaaaaack. President-elect Donald Trump touched down at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington Wednesday morning, starting a whirlwind day of meetings with House Republicans and outgoing President Biden. It marks the 78-year-old’s first trip to the nation’s capital since his stunning election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris — in…

Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to retire before Trump takes office
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Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to retire before Trump takes office

Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly plans to retire before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, denying the incoming president a chance to fire him. Smith, who oversaw the federal criminal cases against Trump related to the 78-year-old’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the hoarding of classified documents,…

Canada orders binding arbitration to end port lockout | Workers’ Rights News

Canada orders binding arbitration to end port lockout | Workers’ Rights News

With the lockouts, $930m of goods are being affected daily, affecting supply chains and local economy, the government says. Canada’s labour minister is intervening to end the lockouts of workers at the country’s two biggest ports. Minister of Labour Steven Mackinnon said on Tuesday that the negotiations had reached an…

Ad calls on ‘sore loser’ Pa. Sen. Bob Casey to stop ‘disrespecting our democracy’ and concede to Republican Dave McCormick
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Ad calls on ‘sore loser’ Pa. Sen. Bob Casey to stop ‘disrespecting our democracy’ and concede to Republican Dave McCormick

PITTSBURGH — Though Election Day is past, swing-state advertising isn’t. A new ad hit Pennsylvania airwaves Tuesday calling on three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey to concede the race the Associated Press called last week for Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick. “Casey and the Democrats are sore losers. And they’re disrespecting our…

Judge delays ruling on whether to scrap Trump’s conviction in hush money case
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Judge delays ruling on whether to scrap Trump’s conviction in hush money case

A judge is postponing a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush money case because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. New York Judge Juan M. Merchan had been set to rule Tuesday. Instead, he told Trump’s lawyers Tuesday he’d delay the ruling until…

NY judge to rule on the fate of Trump’s criminal hush money conviction
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NY judge to rule on the fate of Trump’s criminal hush money conviction

A New York judge will decide Tuesday whether to throw out Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal hush money case based on the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity earlier this year. The President-elect faces up to four years in prison after he was found guilty on all 34 counts…