Our best tool for predicting midterm elections doesn’t show a Republican wave – but history is on the GOP’s side

[ad_1] Like every two years, control of the House and Senate will once again be in play in the midterm elections of November 2022, and one of the best tools we have for predicting the outcome of these elections is the ballot. generic Congress ballot. The generic congressional ballot question typically asks respondents which party … Read more

Independence cop dies after gunshot Wednesday – KMBC Kansas City

[ad_1] Independence policeman dies after being shot on WednesdayKMBC Kansas City Independence shootout leaves officer wounded, suspect deadKCTV5 News Update on Shooting Involving Officers in Independence Independence Police identify officer seriously injured in Wednesday shootingKMBC Kansas City Seriously injured independence officer, suspect killed in shooting41 News See full coverage on Google News [ad_2] Source link

Pastor offers to sign religious vaccine exemptions for church donations

[ad_1] A pastor encourages people to donate to his church for signed religious exemption vaccination forms. Jackson Lahmeyer is also a candidate for the Senate and distributes exemption forms on his campaign website. Lahmeyer told the Washington Post that the form has been downloaded 30,000 times in the past two days. Loading Something is loading. … Read more

Supreme Court job approval drops to low, poll finds

[ad_1] Supreme Court job approval has fallen to an all-time high, according to a new poll taken after the court refused to block deeply divisive Texas law banning most abortions. Only 37% of registered voters said they approved of the way the court had handled its work, with 50% expressing disapproval in a poll released … Read more

Afghanistan: life under the yoke of the Taliban one month later

[ad_1] A business source tells us that trade levels have dropped dramatically as Afghan importers are unable to pay for new products. The Taliban customs chief at the port of Hairatan, Maulvi Saeed, tells us that the group is reducing tariff rates to promote trade and wants to encourage wealthy traders to return to the … Read more

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Vaccine advocate Palm Beach County, Florida loses 6 family members to Covid-19 in 3 weeks

[ad_1] “I work alongside communities and constantly get the message out to get people immunized,” Wilson explained, “but I couldn’t get my family members to get the vaccine.” Wilson, assistant to Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay and wife of Belle Glade Mayor Steve Wilson, said she received a call in August indicating that her … Read more

Idaho, Western hospitals facing wave of Covid, struggle to transfer patients

[ad_1] Hospitals in Idaho are so overwhelmed by the upsurge in coronavirus cases that doctors and nurses have to contact dozens of regional hospitals across the West in hopes of finding places to transfer individual critical patients. Kootenai Health, a hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has already converted a conference room to a Covid overflow … Read more