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EXPLAINER There are more than 64 million voters in Turkey, including more than six million first-time voters. More than 64 million people can vote in Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan facing his toughest test in 20 years. There are more than six million first-time voters in the high-stakes election, and the number of Turks abroad who could vote until May 9 exceeded 3.4 million. Here’s everything you need to know about how the electoral system works: What type of political system does Turkey have? Turkey switched from a parliamentary to a presidential…

A political committee spearheading a new abortion rights ballot initiative in Florida raised nearly $1.87 million by the end of April, according to a newly filed financial report. The Committee to Protect the Freedom of Floridians, which was formed last month, raised $1,876,714 in the last week of April. The committee this week formally announced an initiative to try to pass a proposed constitutional amendment in 2024 to guarantee abortion rights. The announcement came after the Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill this spring that seeks to prevent abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. To get the measure on the ballot,…

Press of Sant Martí We may receive an affiliate commission for anything you purchase from this article. In his latest book, “The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurgency, and Life’s Other Unexpected Curveballs” (St. Martin’s Press), Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar explores the turmoil that has marked her political life in Washington, DC, and her personal life, as she faces threats to both her family’s health and to the health of democracy. In this excerpt, the senator writes about one of her accomplishments as part of the Senate Rules Committee: getting new mom Tammy Duckworth (and…

Trump said at a CNN town hall this week that the GOP should “default” if they don’t get spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling. Senator JD Vance defended Trump’s comments to Axios, saying he was only giving “political advice.” Still, other Republican senators said default is not an option. Loading Loading something. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the application Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the debt ceiling crisis this week, and he believes Republicans’ best bet is to face the economic catastrophe head on….

By Anchorage Daily News Updated: 23 minutes ago Posted: 23 minutes ago Each week, anchor Elizabeth Harball talks with DNA reporters and others about some of Alaska’s biggest news stories. Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts. Alaska’s legislative session is entering its final days, at least officially. Meanwhile, lawmakers have yet to pass a budget, figure out the size of this year’s Permanent Fund dividend or agree on whether to permanently increase funding for public schools. can they In this episode, host Elizabeth Harball talks to DNA reporters Sean Maguire and Iris Samuels, who are in Juneau tracking…

COLUMBUS – Devon Andrew Biggs, born Michele “Mandy” Biggs on September 21, 2007 took his journey to heaven on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. In his short life, he touched more people’s hearts than most of us will in a lifetime. Devon was an amazing young man with the most sincere heart, loving soul, biggest smile and infectious laugh – never meeting a stranger and never leaving a friend. In Devon’s 15 years with us, he was, among other things, an athlete. He participated in football, basketball and weightlifting, was on the chess team and ran track. His most outstanding achievement…

Vladimir Putin accuses the West of “creating a real cult of Nazism” For free real-time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox, sign up for our breaking news emails Sign up to our free emails for breaking news Wagner’s boss has warned that Russian forces are heading for the “worst-case scenario” near Bakhmut as swathes of hard-won territory are being lost. “The situation on the flanks is developing according to the worst-case scenario,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an audio message. “All the territories that were taken with the blood and lives of our comrades for many months, advancing tens…

WASHINGTON — As U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, left the House Republican Conference meeting Wednesday morning at the Capitol Hill Club, he was greeted by reporters who wanted to talk to GOP lawmakers. In Womack’s account of the moment at the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Arkansas Associated Industries Thursday, the first question directed at the congressman was about Rep. George Santos, the New York congressman indicted on multiple federal charges . Womack responded to the question by calling the situation a “distraction” and a “fist point,” but said Thursday that the focus on Santos is part of a larger problem…