With three weeks to go until Election Day, Americans are already showing a strong partisan preference for how they vote, according to a new public opinion poll. The NBC News poll found that 5% of registered voters said they have already cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election. Three percent of voters said they mailed their ballot while 2% ...
The UK is set to create nearly 38,000 jobs and attract £63 billion in investment following the International Investment Summit, which focused on infrastructure, technology, and net zero initiatives. This year’s record-breaking total more than doubles the £29.5 billion secured at last year’s Global Investment Summit. The government attributed the surge in investment to planning reforms, expansion of AI and ...
– As the GOP fights to win back the Senate majority, the leading super PAC that supports Republican incumbents and candidates says it hauled in $114.5 million during the July-September third quarter of 2024 fundraising. And the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), in sharing its fundraising figures first with Fox News on Tuesday, reports having $112 million cash on hand as ...
The Kamala Harris campaign rocket, which soared to dazzling heights when she got into the race, is losing altitude. Despite raising a billion dollars, despite overwhelmingly positive coverage by the mainstream media, she has failed to deliver a compelling message and is especially struggling to win over Black and Latino voters. There’s no question that many Democrats, who grew accustomed ...
Stellantis, the parent company of Vauxhall, Fiat, Citroen, and Peugeot, is set to decide the fate of its UK factories within weeks amid ongoing disagreements with the Government over electric vehicle (EV) sales targets. In June, Stellantis warned it may need to close its Ellesmere Port and Luton plants unless ministers reconsider rules that require a certain percentage of EV ...
Eric Schmidt, former chief executive of Google, has warned that excessive regulation and bureaucracy are holding back the UK’s economic growth and progress towards its net zero goals. Speaking at Sir Keir Starmer’s investment summit, Schmidt suggested the UK government would benefit from appointing a “minister of anti-regulation” to tackle these issues, which he believes are hindering investment and stifling ...
Businesses in the UK are increasingly frustrated with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as service standards continue to fall, according to a recent survey. For the first time, a majority of over 10,000 respondents, surveyed by HMRC’s Administrative Burdens Advisory Board (ABAB), rated their experience as “poor.” Accountants and business advisers warn that trust in HMRC is eroding, with inefficiencies ...
Voters in storm-ravaged parts of the Southeast could face new hurdles at the ballot box this year following the destruction wrought by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, back-to-back disasters that have sparked a flurry of new outreach from states, parties, and even campaigns themselves in a bid to expand voters’ access to the polls and ensure their votes are counted. Though ...
Years before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and started the latest war in the region, the terror group plotted other assaults, including a scheme to blow up a skyscraper in Tel Aviv while pressuring Iran to assist in its battle against the Jewish state, according to documents found by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, the Washington Post ...
Sources close to the White House report an ongoing rift between President Biden and his staff and Kamala Harris and her staff – with issues tracing back to the initial weeks following Harris’ nomination by the Democratic Party. The squabbles have ranged from whether Biden’s main surrogates should continue going on TV or be replaced with new Harris surrogates, to ...