JUNEAU, Alaska — Seventy-five absentee in-person ballots cast by voters in rural western Alaska communities arrived too late to be counted in last month’s primary election, officials said. The Alaska Division of Elections blamed a “mail delivery delay” that affected voters in seven communities, with Kotzebue, Igiugig and Naknek combining for 62 of the ballots.
Thirty-seven people accused of illegal mining in north-central Nigeria have died in custody, local officials said. Police have set up an investigation into the deaths, which the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) blamed on an apparent disease outbreak. However, an intelligence report shared with the AFP news agency suggested the group died because
The White House says it is withdrawing its nomination of Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ensuring that an agency at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda will remain… WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that it was withdrawing its nomination of Lance Schroyer,
The leaders of eight German states have backed the nation’s chancellor amid growing speculation about his political future. The premiers – all of whom are part of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – wrote that restoring trust in their party lay in “listening and taking political action, not in debates over personnel”. Merz, who
The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists. The cuts affected all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with health, nutrition,
As more states have begun to introduce wealth taxes, billionaires and other ultrawealthy individuals have been forced to make the hard choice between sucking it up and paying the bill or moving elsewhere. Those who have chosen to dodge proposed wealth taxes in states including California and Washington have flocked to Florida. Billionaire Californians face
