US Elections

US Elections

Prime Minister Philip Davis and ruling Progressive Liberal Party seek to clinch rare second consecutive term. A snap election is underway in the Bahamas, where voters are heading to the polls to decide whether to grant Prime Minister Philip Davis and his ruling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) a rare second consecutive term in office. If Davis wins the election on Tuesday, he would be the first leader of the Caribbean island nation to serve a second term in nearly 30 years. He is facing a challenge from the Free National Movement (FNM), led by Michael Pintard.

President Donald Trump declined to answer whether or not he fired Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary on Tuesday afternoon while speaking to reporters before his trip to China. The president was asked by one reporter whether Makary quit or the president fired him. I don't want to say, Trump answered. But Marty's a great guy. Trump was asked the question shortly after The Washington Post reported Makary was resigning on Tuesday; that followed a report last week he was on thin ice with Trump.

Thiel told Fortune in an interview that he will be "less involved" in the forthcoming presidential election, though he does intend to vote for the Republican candidate. And he confirmed for the first time an earlier report that, citing sources familiar with his thinking, he would not financially support any of the candidates. Thiel said that while there were "a lot of different, complicated reasons" for his decision not to donate, he isn't convinced that money matters at the presidential level.

Nearly one third of Americans (30 percent) believe that at least one of the three attempts on President Donald Trump's life over the last two years was staged, according to a new NewsGuard/YouGov poll. For each attempted assassination, a majority of Americans said either that it was staged or that they were not sure averaging 54 percent across all three. Only 38 percent of Americans believe that all three assassination attempts were authentic.

Members are struggling to accept the party is no longer the dominant force it once was Fianna Fáil's official history airbrushes over a few items of "unpleasantness" over the last century - from Dev having his old IRA comrades executed, on to the Arms Trial, through Charlie Haughey's Charvet shirts, stopping by Bertie Ahern's racing tips and bypassing the blame for the economic crash.

Cole Allen made a similar plea to other charges, including assault on a federal officer and firearms offences, as he appeared in Washington federal court on Monday. He did not speak as his attorney entered the plea on his behalf.

Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone.

Preliminary results showed its candidate, David Farley, was on track to win 59.1%, defeating the incumbent center-right Liberal Party by a wide margin. It marks the first time One Nation has won a lower house seat in the federal parliament. Farley, a former agribusiness executive, was the clear favorite heading into the contest for Farrer, a large agricultural electorate some 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Sydney.