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☆ Gavin Newsom Wants to Export California’s Climate Laws to the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Coral Davenport | More About Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gavin Newsom, the California governor, packed his bags and his ambition Monday and flew to Chinese provinces on a weeklong mission to negotiate climate agreements. Last month, he was the only American invited to address the United Nations about climate change, where he excoriated the fossil fuel industry for what he called its decades of “deceit and denial.”He has signed a raft of laws and regulations to speed the nation’s most populous state away from fossil fuels, including a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and a mandate to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2045. He wants to end oil drilling in his state, a major oil producer, also by 2045. The two-term Democratic governor wants California to set an aggressive pace for the nation — and the world — as time is running out to deeply cut the carbon emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Mr. Newsom’s bold moves on climate have elevated his national profile, just as he is widely believed to be preparing for a White House run in 2028.

Persons: Gavin Newsom Organizations: Democratic Locations: California, Nations

☆ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns the Russia-Ukraine war and other global clashes are the greatest threat to the world today
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Be ready for energy prices to spike and interest rates to climb higher, Jamie Dimon said. The JPMorgan CEO warns geopolitical threats like Russia's invasion of Ukraine are critical concerns. AdvertisementAdvertisementBe prepared for higher energy prices, steeper interest rates, and a potential economic hangover from a reduction in government spending, Jamie Dimon says. But Russia's invasion of Ukraine – and how it's reshaping global relations – is the number one threat to the world, according to the JPMorgan CEO. "I think people should be prepared for higher oil and gas prices, higher rates," Dimon told CNBC-TV18 on Tuesday.

Persons: Jamie Dimon, —, Dimon, we've Organizations: Service, Ukraine –, JPMorgan, CNBC, TV18, Federal Reserve Locations: Ukraine, Russia, European, China

He has sought to boost Brazil's cred with each state visit and speech, one multilateral forum after another. PUSHING FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE — BRAZIL-STYLEDuring Lula’s travels, he has pushed for global governance that gives greater heft to the Global South and advocating diminishing the dollar’s dominance in trade. After the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin's arrest, Lula said he would review Brazil's membership in the court. Some in Washington had initially hoped Lula could be helpful in advancing a shared agenda in Venezuela, Winter said. As they stood embracing, Lula remained seated while applauding a few feet away and nearly out of the camera frame.

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☆ Thai hospitality magnate is 'very optimistic' about Thailand's tourism recovery
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Lee Ying Shan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

© Marco Bottigelli | Moment | Getty ImagesThailand's tourism recovery is poised for recovery as diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia normalize and Chinese tourists return, according to American-born hotel tycoon William Heinecke. "We've seen the recovery of all Saudi tourism into Thailand. Now there's two flights a day from Saudi direct to Thailand," Heinecke, who is chairman of Thai hospitality company Minor International, said on the sidelines of the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore. Return of Chinese tourists? Additionally, Heinecke said he expects Thailand to benefit when Chinese tourism is back in full swing.

Persons: Marco Bottigelli, William Heinecke, We've, Heinecke, Prayut Chan, Mohammad bin Salman Organizations: Minor International, Forbes Global, Conference, Thai, Saudi Arabia's Crown, Minor, Emirates, Qatar Airways Locations: Thailand, Saudi Arabia, American, Saudi, Singapore, Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, China

☆ America’s Seniors and the Challenges of Old Age - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

America will no longer bea young nation but an old one. Opinion Can America Age Gracefully? America may still think of itself as a young nation, but as a society, it is growing old. A demographic shift this significant calls for a broad-based response, and the longer the challenges go unaddressed, the more formidable they become. Many older people in the United States say they feel invisible in a country that has long been obsessed with youth, avoiding the inevitability — and possibilities — of old age.

Persons: Maira Kalman Organizations: Census, Social, Great Society, Social Security Locations: America, Japan, United States

☆ First US offshore wind auction in Gulf of Mexico attracts paltry interest
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Nichola Groom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

RWE is among the world's largest offshore wind developers, with an extensive portfolio in Europe, and has also secured leases off the coasts of California and New York. The Southeast also has low power prices that could make it harder for higher-cost offshore wind generation to compete for electricity contracts. Texas does not have an offshore wind target. "Today's auction results show the important role state public policy plays in offshore wind market development," Liz Burdock, CEO of the Business Network for Offshore Wind, said in a statement. They included offshore wind development arms of European energy companies Equinor (EQNR.OL) and Shell (SHEL.L), who also have oil and gas operations in the Gulf.

Persons: Karen, Steve Nesius, Biden administration's, Germany's, RWE, Liz Burdock, Joe Biden's, ”, Elizabeth Klein, Nichola, Marguerita Choy, Nick Zieminski Organizations: REUTERS, ASA, Texas, U.S . Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Carolinas, Business Network, Offshore, of Ocean Energy Management, Shell, . Developers, Thomson Locations: Dauphin Island , Alabama, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, California, Europe, U.S, Gulf, Mexico, Texas, of Mexico

☆ India wants to send people to the moon after becoming the first nation to land on the lunar south pole
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

India landed its first lunar spacecraft, and the first robotic mission on the moon's south pole, on Wednesday. India's Chandrayaan-3 probe defeated all odds on Wednesday after it managed to successfully land on the south pole of the moon, beating competing nations to the strategically important site. With the landing, India has become the fourth nation — after Russia, the US, and China — to land on the moon. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Chandrayaan-3 mission, which successfully landed the Vikram lander on the south pole of the moon, cemented India's position as a frontrunner in the race to the moon. The south pole is strategically important because scientists believe water ice is present in in the area.

Persons: Narendra Modi, India's, Modi Organizations: Service, Sky News, BBC, Sky, Indian Space Research Organisation Locations: India, Wall, Silicon, Russia, China

☆ Twilight of the Serial Killer: Cases Like Gilgo Beach Become Ever Rarer
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rex Heuermann, the meticulous architectural consultant who the authorities say murdered three women and buried them on a Long Island beach more than a decade ago, may have been among the last of the dying breed of American serial killers. Even as serial killers came to inhabit a central place in the nation’s imagination — inspiring hit movies, television shows, books, podcasts and more — their actual number was dwindling dramatically. There were once hundreds at large, and a spike in the 1970s and ’80s terrified the country. The techniques that led to the arrest of Mr. Heuermann, who has pleaded not guilty to the crimes, help explain the waning of serial killing, which the F.B.I. defines as the same person killing two or more victims in separate events at different times.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann

☆ Opinion: This throwback president is the kind of leader the GOP needs today
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Opinion Reverend Dr. Russell J. Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But I now find that the GOP leadership of today is unrecognizable when compared to the party I supported enthusiastically during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. A GOP that once welcomed character, decency and morality is sinking quickly into an abyss. How unlike Bush is the severely morally challenged GOP of today, with failings that eclipse even those of former President Richard Nixon. Wallace asked McDaniel whether the Republican Party would have a problem nominating a presidential candidate who is under federal indictment or who is a convicted felon. McDaniel and many other top-tier Republicans have missed their moment to offer moral leadership.

Persons: Dr, Russell J, Levenson, Jr, George H, Barbara Bush, CNN —, Thomas Hardy’s, Russell Levenson, Gabriel Oak, Oak’s sheepdogs, Ronald Reagan, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Bush, Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, —, Ronna McDaniel, Chris Wallace, Chris Wallace ”, Wallace, McDaniel, “ It’s, They’re, Trump, shrugged, Nixon, “, ”, Facebook Trump, It’s, hurtling, Bush — Organizations: St, Martin’s Episcopal, CNN, Republican Party, GOP, Democrat, Republican, Twitter, Facebook, —, Republicans Locations: Martin’s, Houston , Texas, George H.W .

☆ RFK Jr. is tanking among Democrats, rising among Republicans: poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When RFK Jr. jumped into the Democratic presidential race, his last name immediately turned heads. But controversial remarks have hurt him among Democrats, while GOP voters feel the opposite way. In a new Morning Consult survey, RFK Jr. is underwater with Dems but is viewed favorably by GOP voters. Among likely GOP voters that month, Kennedy Jr. was seen favorably by 42% of respondents, with 25% viewing him unfavorably. DeSantis on Wednesday floated Kennedy Jr. as someone he'd consider for a role at the Food and Drug Administration or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should he win the presidency.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Joe Biden, Kennedy, baselessly, Kerry Kennedy, Joe Kennedy III, Debbie Wasserman, Schultz, Schultz of Florida, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, — Organizations: RFK Jr, Democratic, GOP, Service, Biden, Republican, The New York Post, Federal Government, Republicans, Schultz of, COVID, Gov, Food and Drug Administration, for Disease Control Locations: Wall, Silicon, Florida

☆ Opinion | A Grim Climate Lesson From the Canadian Wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

But whose responsibility is the carbon produced when forests burn? In the age of extreme weather and climate agreements, the world has learned to tabulate ecological guilt nation by nation — cutting responsibility for the current crisis into so many slices of pie. If the 20th century taught us the perversity of aggressive fire suppression, the 21st is already teaching us the limits of that lesson. But if the costs to human health of wildfire smoke are larger than from the fires themselves, should the goal be recalibrated? Canada has a gargantuan per capita carbon footprint, in fact, by some measures larger than that of the United States.

Persons: ” Henry Mance, “ Organizations: U.S ., Canadair, Financial Times Locations: North America, Eurasia, China, United States, India, California, Canada, Russia, Ontario, Quebec, Michigan, Maine, U.S, Los Angeles, Tampa

☆ Opinion: ‘Dear Canada…’ an American firefighter’s heartfelt letter to north of the border
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Opinion Clare Frank | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

This means agencies creating the wildland-urban interface or WUI — where human settlements meet the natural environment — are not ultimately responsible for protecting it. By my fifth year in firefighting, I’d seen plenty of wildfires and structure fires, and wildfires threatening structures. As we convoyed in, a battalion chief instructed each engine company, “If it’s not savable, leapfrog to the next house. Smoke rises from the Texas Creek wildfire south of Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, on July 9. In this banner year, some are crying for Canada to form a national fire department.

Persons: Clare Frank, Read, Cynthia Smalley, nature’s, partiers, leapfrog, Luis Ascui, they’d, ember, Smokey Bear, “, it’s, Canada’s Organizations: CNN, CNN —, Del, Getty, Australia, Service, Reuters, Twitter, Facebook Locations: California’s, United States, Pebble Beach , California, Del Monte Forest, Kinglake, Victoria, Australia, Canada, Texas, Lillooet, British Columbia, California, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France

☆ How Thai food became so popular in the US — and how today’s chefs are going beyond pad thai
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —When Anajak Thai opened in 1981, most people who walked into the Los Angeles restaurant weren’t familiar with Thai cuisine. Thai food became so popular among Americans that the Thai government took notice. Thai food in the US reaches new heightsToday, the Thai restaurant scene in the US is perhaps the most exciting that it’s ever been. And Thai American chefs like Pichetrungsi are continuing to defy stereotypes and misconceptions of what constitutes Thai food. He wants to show diners just how innovative Thai cuisine can be, but he’s hesitant to take familiar comforts like pad thai off the menu altogether.

Persons: Justin Pichetrungsi, Pichetrungsi’s, Rick Pichetrungsi, Anajak, ” Pichetrungsi, Pichetrungsi, he’s, It’s, Mark Padoongpatt, Padoongpatt, Marie Wilson, ” Padoongpatt, Justin, “, ”, Saipin Chutima, Bill, Isabella Vosmikova, Andy Ricker, Chiang, Leah Nash, Chiang Mai, Hong Thaimee, Rather, ” Thaimee, Leela Punyaratabandhu, Punyaratabandhu, mok, We’ve, James Beard, it's, Mariah Tauger Organizations: CNN, Sherman Oaks, Disney, University of Nevada, Thai, Food, Lotus, White, Washington Post, Pichetrungsi, Los Angeles Times Locations: Los Angeles, L.A, Thailand, Asia, Las Vegas, Thai America, United States, Angeles, Central Thailand, Thai, Siam, Northern Thailand, White American, Portland , Oregon, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, America, New, Chicago, Heart, Malaysian, California

☆ Opinion: This is the real reason Ron DeSantis is struggling in the polls
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Ron DeSantis struggling in his quest for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Dean Obeidallah CNNHe currently trails the front-runner — twice-indicted former President Donald Trump — by more than 30 points in one recent Fox News poll. And wouldn’t the Mexican leader’s criticism likely help DeSantis with GOP voters, given their views on immigration? Let me add this caveat about DeSantis’ polling challenges, as others have: It’s still early in the 2024 race for the GOP nomination. To that point, DeSantis said last week, “I’m running to win in January and February.

Persons: Dean Obeidallah, Ron DeSantis, —, Donald Trump, Maria Bartiromo, DeSantis, “, — DeSantis, Trump, ” Trump, ”, we’ll, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, I’m Organizations: CNN, Florida Gov, Dean Obeidallah CNN, Fox, The New York Times, Street, Politico, Fox News, Republican, Yale University, Harvard Law School, US Navy, Florida —, Trump, Quinnipiac, Disney, Twitter, Facebook, GOP, Democratic Locations: Florida, Mexico

☆ How Singapore has become a leading force in tech innovation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With Edb Singapore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Over 13 years ago, AvePoint, a SaaS solutions provider based in New Jersey, recognized the potential of Southeast Asia and found its entry point in Singapore. "While Singapore is a very small country, the country's focus on talent development and productivity results in it leading the forefront of innovation with a strong tech ecosystem for talent and corporate success," he said. In Singapore, ServiceNow was able to access a unique business partnership with Singapore Airlines, the world's most-awarded airline and one of the region's largest customers, developing a system called SQNow, which streamlines and manages IT workflows. "Being successful in Singapore is often a gateway into other markets around Southeast Asia," Nehammer added. Why Singapore's brand continues to thriveSingapore's ascent as a global tech powerhouse is anchored on the pillars of innovation, business networks, and robust tech infrastructure.

Persons: Tianyi Jiang, ServiceNow, it's, Jiang, Nehammer, AvePoint Organizations: ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Singapore government's Smart, Smart, Singapore, Singapore Airlines, NCS, Tech, Monetary Authority of Singapore, MAS, Higher, Insider Studios, Singapore Economic Development Board Locations: Singapore, New Jersey, Southeast Asia, Asia, Rhode

☆ The Secret Deal for a Tribal Casino and Why It Imploded
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Jay Root | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For months, talks over a new casino deal between New York State and the Seneca Nation of Indians have been at an impasse, with the two sides deadlocked over the size of the state’s cut of hundreds of millions of dollars in gambling revenue, and what the tribe would get in return. With a few precious hours left before state lawmakers were set to break for the year, that suddenly seemed set to change: Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has faced questions over her husband’s ties to commercial gambling interests, tried to fast-track a bill that would have given her administration blanket authority to negotiate a new compact with the Native American nation — and cut out the scrutiny that accompanied the old one. But now the effort, marked as it was by secrecy and a lack of consultation with virtually anyone besides tribal leaders, has backfired spectacularly. It has alienated local officials and gambling and labor interests that are powerful forces in New York State politics and left the state and the Senecas no closer to a new casino compact.

Persons: Kathy Hochul Organizations: New York State Locations: Seneca Nation, American, New York State, Rochester

☆ Opinion: DeSantis and Pence are wrong in pushing to bring back Fort Bragg
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, are attempting to take our nation backward by vowing to rename a military base in North Carolina in honor of Braxton Bragg, a slave-owning, former Confederate general. Fort Bragg became Fort Liberty earlier this month as part of a push to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases in the wake of protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Confederate President Jefferson Davis asked Bragg to leave his plantation and serve as a general. At the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga alone — where Bragg was uncharacteristically successful in defeating Union forces — patriotic US soldiers suffered 16,000 casualties. of Fort Bragg, Fort Robert E. Lee, and many other Military Bases.

Persons: Dean Obeidallah, America’s, Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Braxton Bragg, Fort Bragg, George Floyd, DeSantis, “, we’re, Pence, ”, Bragg, Jefferson Davis, Bruce Levine, Politifact.com, “ Bragg, ” DeSantis, Donald Trump, Trump, tweeting, Bill …, Fort Robert E, Lee, ” Trump, Biden, it’s, that’s, Republicans ’ Organizations: CNN, Dean Obeidallah CNN, Florida Gov, Confederate, Fort Liberty, North, GOP, Republican, Pentagon, Union, University of Illinois, United, Quinnipiac University, Trump, Twitter, Howard University, “, Republicans, America Locations: Galveston , Texas, Union, North Carolina, Fort Bragg, ”, West Point, Louisiana, Chickamauga, University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign, United States

☆ New report shows Ticketmaster controls the vast majority of the live event business, and any promises of 'transparency' just mean they'll overcharge concertgoers more brazenly
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Live Nation Entertainment announced new "transparent" pricing where it will display fees at the beginning of the transaction. While this has been on Biden's agenda for months, he hasn't addressed the grip Live Nation Entertainment has on the entertainment industry. Republican state Sen. Scott Wilk introduced a bill in early 2023 to ban exclusivity contracts in the ticketing industry. Ultimately, she said, it's up to the Department of Justice to investigate and potentially take action on Live Nation Entertainment. According to the New York Times, the DOJ opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment in late 2022.

Persons: hasn't, —, Biden, Krista Brown, Sen, Scott Wilk, Wilk, Brown Organizations: Nation Entertainment, Service, Ticketmaster, American Economic Liberties, Nation, Congress, Entertainment, California's State Senate, Department of Justice, New York Times, DOJ, Live Nation Entertainment Locations: United States, California's

☆ The 2024 G.O.P. Field Faces a Choice: Law and Order or Loyalty
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | Ken Bensinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump has left the Republican Party — and his rivals for the party’s nomination — with a stark choice between deferring to a system of law and order that has been central to the party’s identity for half a century or a more radical path of resistance, to the Democratic Party in power and to the nation’s highest institutions that Mr. Trump now derides. How the men and women who seek to lead the party into the 2024 election respond to the indictments of the former president in the coming months will have enormous implications for the future of the G.O.P. So far, the declared candidates for the presidency who are not Mr. Trump have divided into three camps regarding his federal indictment last Thursday: those who have strongly backed him and his insistence that the indictment is a politically driven means to deny him a second White House term, such as Vivek Ramaswamy; those who have urged Americans to take the charges seriously, such as Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson; and those who have straddled both camps, condemning the indictment but nudging voters to move past Mr. Trump’s leadership, such as Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. The trick, for all of Mr. Trump’s competitors, will be finding the balance between harnessing the anger of the party’s core voters who remain devoted to him while winning their support as an alternative nominee.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Republican Party —, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson, Trump’s, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley Organizations: Republican Party, Democratic Party

☆ A secret Cold War-era deal lets British jets shadow Russian bombers when they fly near a vital Atlantic chokepoint
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Since the 1950s, Ireland has allowed British jets to intercept Russian aircraft near Irish airspace. Irish Air Corps PC-9s fly by an Irish navy patrol vessel in August 2006. SaabThe Irish military has a few short-range RBS-70 surface-to-air missiles that can reach 16,000 feet, backed by Giraffe search radars. Mulqueen said that official Irish and British statements suggest British pilots could intercept intruders but not actually shoot at them. Should Sinn Fein take power in the future, it would be responsible for Ireland's security, including its air defense.

☆ Do No Harm, a group of 'medical professionals' fighting 'woke healthcare,' is behind many anti-trans laws
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The AP analyzed 130 bills across 40 states, finding common language attributable to a group called Do No Harm. Do No Harm is one of several right-wing organizations advocating against trans inclusion in healthcare. Do No Harm is much newer, launching last year in an effort to shield "patients and physicians from woke healthcare." "We know that woke medical education and research are already impacting healthcare providers, and now federal and state policymakers are forcing woke policies into medicine," Kristina Rasmussen, executive director of Do No Harm, said in an April 2022 press release. Several other medical groups have joined calls to stop anti-trans policies from taking hold across the nation — like the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, and the National Education Association, to name a few.

☆ Opinion: The dubious MLK Jr. quote about Malcolm X
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Opinion Peniel E. Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, long a contentious backdrop to the history of civil rights and anti-racist activism in America, is under new scrutiny after the bombshell news that a quote denigrating Malcolm X, published in Playboy and attributed to King, is apparently fraudulent. This new information adds to the ongoing rethinking of the relationship between King and Malcolm X. Of course, this is not to suggest that we stop teaching “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” since all memoir and autobiography is an act of literary creation. The complexity of his relationship to Malcolm X is handled judiciously. Balancing the bitter and beautiful parts of the relationship between King and Malcolm X helps us come to terms with past and contemporary historical traumas.

☆ More Modi, Less Hindu Nationalism: Reading Tea Leaves in India Vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Mujib Mashal | Hari Kumar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

With how often and how fiercely Narendra Modi injects himself into elections, you would think every race — down to the vote for municipal bodies in what will soon be the world’s most populous nation — is a referendum on his standing as the leader of India. On Wednesday, a state election in Karnataka, home to 65 million people, was being closely watched for what it might foretell about national elections early next year in which Mr. Modi will seek to extend his transformational prime ministership into a second decade. In Karnataka, his Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., was trying to hold on to the only state it governs in the country’s more prosperous south, where its Hindu nationalist politics have found much slower reception.

☆ Victory Day analysis: Putin tried to project strength, but Moscow parade revealed only his isolation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —For Russian President Vladimir Putin, this year’s Victory Day parade in Red Square was a chance to continue his war on history. It has become a pawn to their cruel and selfish plans.”Despite the pomp of the parade, Putin cuts an increasingly isolated figure. In Russia, Putin and his regime have destroyed these values. A lone Soviet-era T-34 tank leads the procession in Moscow in contrast to the large array of military hardware on display on previous Victory Day parades. “Victory Day is the victory of our grandfathers,” he said.

☆ Republicans want to push Manchin out of a reelection bid because they think he's the last Democrat who can win in deep red West Virginia: 'You can't say that it's impossible for him to win'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Republicans are looking to nudge Joe Manchin out of a Senate reelection bid in 2024. Still, Republican leaders aren't dismissing Manchin, as he has withstood the GOP lean of the state. And the state Senate and state House of Delegates, which had robust Democratic majorities just over a decade ago, now have GOP supermajorities. But if Manchin does run, Republicans should expect a tenacious campaigner who has shown that he won't be outworked. "He has that Clinton-esque ability to make everybody feel like he's your friend and he's listening to you and he's concerned about you," Hickey told Politico.

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