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Young votes stamp their mark on politics

Millennials are coming of age in politics, none more so than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the youngest women to ever win a seat in Congress. At just 29, her victory in New York’s 14th congressional district is part of a trend of young voters shaping politics in their image and in distinct millennial style. First-time […]

Family wanted in Guelph mall theft

Guelph police are asking the public for their assistance in identifying a man after a family affair led to a theft investigation at a local mall. Police report that the family of four, consisting of a father, mother, son and daughter, entered a store inside Stone Road Mall around 6:30 p.m. on Monday. According to […]

Trump faces a blitz of investigations from Democratic-run House

Armed with subpoenas and a long list of grievances, a small group of lawmakers will lead the investigations poised to make President Donald Trump’s life a lot tougher now that Democrats have won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives Using their control of House committees, Democrats can demand to see Trump’s long-hidden tax […]

US midterm elections: What next for Donald Trump after Democrats take House?

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump faced greater restraints on his presidency after Democrats won control of the US House of Representatives and pledged to hold the Republican accountable after a tumultuous two years in the White House. Trump and his fellow Republicans expanded their control of the US Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, following a divisive […]

US midterm elections: It's a win regardless of which party you ask

MIAMI, FLORIDA – Both parties hailed the results of Tuesday’s (Nov 6) midterm elections as a victory, with Democrats signalling that they would use their newly-gained control of the House to act as a check on the Trump administration. Republicans too claimed the results as a win, casting their widened Senate majority as a major […]

Republicans maintain grip on the US Senate in midterm vote

Although Democrats failed to take control of the Senate, the party flipped the House of Representatives on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has maintained a majority in the Senate, the upper chamber of the country’s Congress, after a climactic midterm season marked by violence and heated rhetoric. Tuesday’s midterm elections, the first nationwide […]

Laura Kelly, a Kansas Democrat, Tops Kobach in Governor’s Race

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas voters rejected the sharply conservative message of Kris W. Kobach, a Republican known for fiery warnings about election fraud and illegal immigration, and instead elected State Senator Laura Kelly, a Democrat, as governor of their red-leaning state. Ms. Kelly’s victory on Tuesday, reported by The Associated Press, upended the Republican-dominated State […]

Gavin Newsom Elected Governor of California

SAN DIEGO — Gavin Newsom, the Democratic former mayor of San Francisco, was elected governor of California on Tuesday, marking the ascension of an avowedly liberal leader who will now take over a state that has openly resisted the agenda of President Trump. Nearly three decades younger than Jerry Brown, the governor he will be […]

Midterm election results due following volatile campaign

Results of the pivotal midterm election are due this morning in what is being viewed as a referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump. The first polls began to close in parts of Indiana and Kentucky on Tuesday as Americans cast votes at the end of a divisive campaign to decide whether Donald Trump’s fellow […]

Ted Cruz Defeats Beto O’Rourke for Senate, as Blue Wave Fails to Reach Texas

EL PASO, Tex. — Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, won re-election on Tuesday in one of the tightest midterm races in the country, defeating the best-financed and most popular Democrat to run in Texas in years, Representative Beto O’Rourke. Mr. Cruz’s victory, reported by The Associated Press, did more than dash Democratic hopes that […]