Tech executive Elon Musk expended massive sums of money attempting to influence recent congressional midterm races. Reports indicate he spent millions of dollars trying to support Republican candidates in his home state of Texas and across other electoral contests.
Despite the heavy financial outlays, the targeted candidates ultimately failed to secure victory. Additional details regarding the campaign expenditures are expected to emerge as the story continues to develop.
Ken Skates apologises to voters after May's historic election defeat.
Undercover ITV report also shows inadequate welfare checks at ex-military base run by firm of asylum camp billionaire Graham King Asylum seekers accommodated at a controversial military base in East Sussex have been subjected to inadequate welfare checks, and torture survivors may have been placed there unlawfully, an undercover documentary for ITV has revealed. Mass accommodation sites are central to the government’s plan to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers. For the documentary, Inside The Asylum Camp, ITV’s undercover reporter got a job as a welfare officer at Crowborough and covertly filmed inside the former military training camp. The documentary claims that poor screening and welfare checks are having serious consequences for some of the asylum seekers. Continue reading...
The author of a major review on youth unemployment, due next week, acknowledges the change would mean some young people losing out on benefits.
This is the second time Alaskans voted down an effort to repeal the state's unique election system, which voters first approved in 2020. A repeal effort in 2024 also failed narrowly.
The battle over the next majority leader in the U.S. Senate reflects the turnout by younger and independent voters in the midterm elections.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with legal scholar and Georgetown professor Stephen Vladeck about Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson, a Democrat, and what that could mean for federal litigation.