Month: May 2023

DILI, East Timor — Counting of votes was underway in East Timor’s parliamentary election on Sunday with two former independence fighters being considered for the post of prime minister. Two main political parties, the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin, and the opposition, the National Congress for the Reconstruction of Timor (CNRT), are believed to be in a tight race for the National Parliament of 65 seats. A total of 17 games were played. Neither party has formed a pre-election coalition, but analysts said the CNRT, a party led by former prime minister and pro-independence leader Xanana…

Must-see: The MLive video team and political reporter Jordyn Hermani spent weeks tracking the impact and spread of efforts to ban the books from libraries across Michigan. Their efforts resulted in a project that is well worth your time to see. This is your guide to Michigan politics. The 14-minute documentary focuses on the books, librarians, parents and activists who have found themselves on both sides of increasingly heated debates about what materials should be available to patrons in Michigan libraries . You can also read Jordyn’s write-up of her report and her interview with the author of the graphic…

DILI, East Timor (AP) – Vote counting was underway in East Timor’s parliamentary election on Sunday with two former independence fighters being considered for prime minister. Two main political parties, the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin, and the opposition, the National Congress for the Reconstruction of Timor (CNRT), are believed to be in a tight race for the National Parliament of 65 seats. A total of 17 games were played. Neither party has formed a pre-election coalition, but analysts said the CNRT, a party led by former prime minister and pro-independence leader Xanana Gusmao, is favored…

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Saturday that the default would confirm Chinese President Xi Jinping’s assessment of a broken American political system as the White House and Congress negotiate over the roof of the debt amid the possibility of default. “The worst thing we could do is default. It would confirm Xi Jinping’s assessment that we have a flawed and broken political system, that we cannot solve our most basic challenges, and it would weaken us in the eyes of the rest of the world,” he said Coons on MSNBC’s “Velshi.” ” “So why would it be bad by default?”…

Hiroshima, Japan CNN — President Joe Biden issued a stark warning Sunday that Republicans in Congress could use a national default to damage him politically and acknowledged that time was running out to use possible unilateral actions to raise the federal debt limit, a sharp change of tone days before the deadline to reach an agreement. Characterizing the GOP proposals as “extreme” and warning that they could not garner enough support in Congress, Biden said he was unable to promise fellow world leaders gathered in Japan for the Group of 7 talks that the U.S. do not breach “I can’t…

It’s a contentious issue that has dominated political debates about criminal justice over the past year. Florida requires a jury to be unanimous in its decision to sentence a prisoner to death. Should the state reverse its position on unanimity and allow an 8-4 majority to rule? Should the state continue to use the death penalty or scrap it altogether? A total of 96 Hillsborough County high school students responded as part of the annual RF “Red” Pittman Tribune Scholars Program, named for a former Tampa Tribune newspaper editor and now sponsored by the Tampa Bay Times. Only those in…

I’ve never watched the show “Survivor,” but I’m reliably informed that one of the main strategies their contestants use is to form alliances. Two or three often like-minded (or at least similarly motivated) people work together to defend against other serious threats, so they are more likely to outlast other participants, at least for a while. Of course, if the alliance is successful, it must eventually dissolve, and its members realize that they are also competitors; I wouldn’t say that analogy perfectly characterizes the current relationship between the political leaders of Texas and Florida. State executives have their own fiefdoms…

Disruptive climate protests have emerged because people are fed up with “excuse after excuse” from governments to tackle the problem, actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has said. In recent years, climate protesters have jammed roads, blockaded sites, stopped traffic, plastered graffiti on property and burst into meetings and sporting events in a campaign of high profile and all-consuming disruption long time in Britain. Schwarzenegger told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: “These are people who mean well, maybe they’re not doing it the way we’d like them to. “The bottom line is that people all over the world are angry…