Posts Tagged Elections 2017
The Makeup of This Year’s Voter Turnout Could Determine Election
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on November 2, 2017
Credit: AP Photo / Alexander F. Yuan
Voters are headed to the polls this month to vote for three statewide races and every member of the House of Delegates. But the electorate this year will not look like the one that turned out last year for the presidential election. Michael Pope takes this look at odd-year voters.
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From NPR News- How The House Prescription Drug Plan Would Try To Lower Drug Prices December 12, 2019Lawmakers are voting Thursday on a bill to rein in drug costs. President Trump has vowed to veto it. But the plan shares a lot with other bipartisan efforts. Here's how it would work.
- Trump Still Faces 3 Lawsuits Over His Business Empire December 12, 2019The suits allege that Trump is violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution — and demand that the president divest from his private dealings.
- Attorneys For Boston Marathon Bomber To Appeals Judges: Trial Was Not Fair December 12, 2019Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015. On Thursday his attorneys will argue, among other things, that the jury was biased and Tsarnaev couldn't get a fair trial in Boston.
- A Construction Company Embraces Frank Talk About Mental Health To Reduce Suicide December 12, 2019The suicide of a construction worker in 2014 became a pivotal event for the Denver-based company that employed him. The death led management to make mental health care a part of the workplace culture.
- Harvey Weinstein Reaches Tentative $25 Million Deal To Settle Sex Claims December 12, 2019It isn't clear how many of Weinstein's accusers will agree to the deal. He still faces criminal charges in New York next month for sexually assaulting two women.
- How The House Prescription Drug Plan Would Try To Lower Drug Prices December 12, 2019
- From BBC News
- General election 2019: Voters head to polls across the UK December 12, 2019Millions of people will cast their vote in the third general election in less than five years.
- London Bridge attack: Reformed prisoner who fought knifeman 'prepared to die' December 12, 2019John Crilly, who fought the London Bridge attacker, says he shouted for police to shoot Usman Khan.
- Harvey Weinstein 'reaches tentative $25m deal with accusers' December 12, 2019The reported deal comes ahead of the film mogul's separate rape and sexual assault trial next month.
- Nicky Campbell pays tribute to 'wonderful mum' December 12, 2019"The day she adopted me was the day I won the lottery," says the broadcaster, after his mother dies.
- Karen Gillan: 'I got rejected for the local panto' December 12, 2019She is one of Scotland's biggest film stars, but Karen Gillan says her young dreams took a few knocks.
- General election 2019: Voters head to polls across the UK December 12, 2019
