
2024, the year when half of the planet goes to the polls
More than 3.7 billion people will be able to vote in elections in 70 countries next year. From the U.S. to the EU, from Taiwan to India, there are some results that will have global impacts

More than 3.7 billion people will be able to vote in elections in 70 countries next year. From the U.S. to the EU, from Taiwan to India, there are some results that will have global impacts

2023 is the third consecutive year in which the country’s economic growth has exceeded the projections of market analysts at the beginning of the year

On December 20, left-wing organizations will march to the downtown Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to protest the president’s $20 billion cut in public spending and what they call the ‘criminalization of dissent’

Mohammed Abdel-Salam, the Houthis’ chief negotiator challenged the U.S.-created coalition, saying the Iranian-backed rebels would continue targeting Israel-linked vessels off Yemen

The decision adds another tension point over immigration amid a struggle in Washington between the White House and Senate negotiators to reach a deal on border security

The appeals court upheld but narrowed a gag order that barred Trump from verbally attacking witnesses over their participation in the case

Chicago and other northern U.S. cities have struggled to find housing for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers who have been bused from Texas
Power was knocked out for more than 600,000 customers in an area stretching from Virginia north through New England

The story of Purita Valle reflects the suffering of migrants in Central America and Mexico, according to the latest report from Doctors Without Borders

The combined company will be among the top three steel-producing companies in the world, according to 2022 figures from the World Steel Association

Significant increases were seen in 20 states with the highest rate in California. The rise was more notable in Hispanic kids

Getting the working class back into the Democratic Party is vital not only to defeating the former Republican president, but also for the American economy

Backers are far from gathering enough signatures, but if the measure makes the June 2024 ballot and voters pass it, North Dakota would have to replace ballot scanners with hundreds of workers

Jeff Roe, the top adviser to Never Back Down, announced his departure hours after ‘The Washington Post’ published a story on internal disputes between the group and the campaign
Josh Green says he’s prepared to use the ‘hammer’ of post-fire emergency orders to make sure owners of short-term vacation rentals extend them to long-term units if enough spaces aren’t converted voluntarily by mid-January

The weaponization of accusations of anti-semitism on college campuses is fueling the controversy over the Gaza war. This is despite the fact that experts point out that this hate speech isn’t a new phenomenon… and that it’s more often attributed to the extreme right

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs said she issued the executive order because “the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe”

Homeless migrants and their children were limited to 60 days in city housing under an order issued in October by Mayor Eric Adams, a move the Democrat says is necessary to relieve a shelter system

EL PAÍS climbs aboard with President López Obrador for the inauguration of his pet project, with a route from Campeche to Cancún that still lacks connections, garages and workmanship

The ruling moves action in the case back to Hamilton County Common Pleas, where abortion clinics asked Judge Christian Jenkins this week to throw out the law following voters’ decision to approve enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution

The South American country’s political actors have all staked their positions on the new constitutional text, causing some internal divisions within the parties

Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, is accused of abuse of a corpse. That’s a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine

The President has been criticized about the record numbers of migrants at the border while he is also trying to address the political weakness before a potential campaign rematch next year with Donald Trump

A new report released by OECD, ECLAC, CAF and the European Commission shows that private financing for development has tripled in the region, and identifies the care economy, agriculture and digital transformation as key sectors of opportunity

People becoming homeless for the first time were behind much of the increase, and it ended a downward trend in family homelessness that began in 2012.
The pieces handed over to Greek officials in New York date back from as long as 4,700 years ago to the Middle Ages

The poll found that about half of U.S. adults, 51%, say democracy is working ‘not too well’ or ‘not well at all’