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If Spain’s national election on Sunday goes as most polls and analysts suggest, the mainstream conservatives may come out on top but need allies on the political fringes to govern, bringing the first hard-right party to power since the Franco dictatorship. The potential rise of this hard-right party, Vox, which has a deeply nationalist spirit imbued with the ghost of Franco, would bring Spain into the growing ranks of European nations where mainstream conservative parties have partnered with previously taboo forces out of electoral necessity. It is an important marker for a continent in political flux and a pregnant moment…

CNN — President Joe Biden plans to name a new national monument next week after Emmett Till, a White House official told CNN, honoring the black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Biden will designate the monument on Tuesday, which would have been Till’s 82nd birthday. “The new monument will protect the sites that tell the story of Emmett Till’s too-short life and racially motivated murder, the wrongful acquittal of his killers, and the activism of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who courageously brought the brutal injustices and racism of the era to the world’s attention, catalyzing…

SThe peculation continues to grow whether before or not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will seek re-election to retain his longtime seat congress. If Pelosi opts for another bid for the office she’s held since 1987, that means her California constituents will see a new face in washington dcnext year, and a political upheaval for Democrats in Congress. BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN COULD COUNT ON THESE SURVEYORS TO EXCITE VOTERS FOR RE-ELECTION The speaker emeritus has yet to reveal her election intentions for 2024, which could prompt a run by other Golden State Democrats hoping to represent San Francisco, one of the…

Political parties are private organizations, membership of which is extremely easy to obtain (via voter registration). In the 2020 US Supreme Court case California Democratic Party et al. v. Jones, an open primary (one in which non-party members participate) was held to violate the free association rights of party members. Colorado law requires open primaries unless a party overcomes a virtually impossible hurdle to “opt out” of another method of selecting candidates. Colorado’s law is unconstitutional. Unaffiliated voters have no constitutional right to participate in a political party’s primary. Unaffiliated voters are free to support unaffiliated candidates and try to…

NEWARK, NJ — A jury found Newark Police Officer Jovanny Crespo guilty of all charges Wednesday. Crespo was accused of fatally shooting one man and injuring another during a pursuit in January 2019. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, weapons offenses and official misconduct. The sentence is set for September 15. Crespo could face 30 years behind bars. The jury reached its verdict after six days of deliberations that saw multiple delays: one juror was sick, other jurors had to be replaced, and all three alternates had to be replaced. There were tears from about 20 of…

A new updated forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season from Colorado State University has increased the number of storms expected this summer and fall despite the presence of El Nino. MIAMI – Tropical Storm Don became Hurricane Don on Saturday, marking the first hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. Formerly a subtropical depression, then designated a tropical depression when the storm transitioned to a fully tropical system, and then became a tropical storm, Don has now sustained winds of 75 mph with higher gusts, but is far from any land. Don was last estimated to be about 480 miles…

GRESHAM, Ore. (KPTV) – A hospital security guard was killed in a shooting at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital on Saturday, and the suspect was shot and killed by police in Gresham, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The Portland Police Bureau said shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday it responded to a shooting at the hospital on Northwest 22nd Avenue. Officers entered the hospital and attempted to locate the suspect and possible victims. At 2pm on Saturday, a spokesman said at a press conference that there were “one or more” victims. The suspect was released from the hospital, so police set…

Jamie Foxx has friends in high places. Foxx, 55, broke his silence Friday on Instagram, nearly three months after privately suffering a “medical complication” where he admitted he went “to hell and back.” “I can’t even begin to tell you how far it took me and how it brought me back,” she said after thanking fans for their prayers. “I went through something I thought would never, ever happen. I know a lot of people were waiting or wanting to hear updates and to be honest with you, I didn’t want to be seen like that.” Will Smith, The Rock,…