[ad_1] NAIROBI, Kenya – Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won a sixth term, the country’s electoral commission said on Saturday, after a campaign marred by a deadly crackdown on the opposition, an internet blackout and accusations of tampering and rigging of votes. The result gives Museveni, who came to power in 1986 and one … Read more
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) – When Joe Biden is sworn in on Wednesday outside a wounded U.S. Capitol, he will begin to reshape the office of the presidency itself as he sets out to lead a bitterly divided nation grappling with a devastating pandemic and destined insurgency to stop his rise to power. Biden had campaigned … Read more
[ad_1] When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday, Democrats will control the White House, as well as both houses of Congress. With the GOP losing control of the Presidency and in the minority in the House and Senate, a new national survey indicates a majority of Republicans want their leaders in Congress to stand … Read more
[ad_1] A group that has been planning since November to hold armed rallies in Washington, DC, as well as state capitals, intends to conduct its events on Sunday, despite an unprecedented effort to secure the Capitol. In days when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in a violent riot that left five dead, … Read more
[ad_1] “We did it four years ago and even four years before. But this is the first time that we have put in place a plan where there has been an active attack on the institutions of our democracy, “Dotson told his officers.” It is a threat as serious as I have it. view. , … Read more
[ad_1] The National Rifle Association said Friday it had filed for bankruptcy and was moving to Texas, where the organization says it has 400,000 members. The NRA is currently based in New York, where the state Attorney General Letitia James sued alleging financial crimes committed by its senior officials and seeks to dissolve the organization. … Read more
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Joe Biden complemented his State Department team on Saturday with a group of former career diplomats and Obama administration veterans, signaling his desire to return to more traditional foreign policy after four years of uncertainty and unpredictability under President Donald Trump. Biden will appoint Wendy Sherman as Assistant Secretary of … Read more
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[ad_1] Bobi Wine – a singer-turned-politician whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi – came in second in the vote, according to the country’s electoral commission. Wine said his team was considering all peaceful, non-violent and legal options to challenge the results, as fears of post-election unrest surface, following deadly violence in the months leading up … Read more
[ad_1] “Luck may be needed in Civil War II,” Larry Rendell Brock Jr., a Texas accused in connection with the attack, wrote on Facebook in the days leading up to the events in Washington, according to federal prosecutors. Mr Brock had aspired to take hostages, prosecutors said, and tagged the post with the names of … Read more