US Elections

Triggering a political debate, Elon Musk told independent-minded voters that shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties. "Therefore, I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic," the Twitter CEO posted to his nearly 115 million followers.

Candidates contesting the 35 seats for the Senate and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives in the Congress are all locked in the closest race ever with Democrats and Republicans alike holding a slight edge over each other in most states, especially in the eight battleground states where Republicans seem to enjoy the popular vote but swing voters could change the scenario completely.

All the four Representatives who gave themselves the nickname "Samosa Caucus" stand a strong chance of being re-elected according to forecasts and a fifth, Democrat Shri Thanedar who is running for the first time is almost certain to join them. The three Republican aspirants, Ritesh Tanden who is running against fellow Indian American Ro Khanna in California, Sandeep Srivastava in Texas and Rishi Kumar in California have been written off in forecasts.

There isn't even a common voting machine for the country and within a state, the machines could vary: In New York state, the city uses machines from a company called Election Systems & Software, while elsewhere machines from Dominion Voting Systems, a company founded in Canada and has headquarters in Toronto and Denver, are deployed.

The blog said that the election on November 3, 2020, witnessed a major increase in voter engagement among the AAPI community, "building on record gains in voting in the 2018 midterm elections, where midterm voter registration and turnout jumped across every segment, including by nativity, age, gender and geography".

As stunning new evidence continues to trickle in, the FBI has already opened 170 cases and is following thousands of witnesses in what it calls a probe of "unprecedented" scope and scale. The US Justice Department has created a strike force to examine the possibility of sedition charges, which could carry up to 20 years in prison.

This resignation comes less than a week after he pledged to remain in office and the fact that his department is holding charge of security on Inauguration day further perplexes the situation. Wolf cited a legal challenge to his leadership as a reason for his resignation, but that had surfaced months ago.

According to the White House, the emergency declaration also provides appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorised under Title V of the Stafford Act to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the District of Columbia. 

The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, would go down in history as one of the most controversial ones ever. From being a TV star to a real-estate mogul to holding the most powerful office in the world, Trump's presidential run is nearing its end. But quite like the rest of his four years, it was impossible for his transition to go smoothly, as unable to accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential elections, he is currently charged for provoking violence through mob of pro-Trump supporters outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.

She also added that she was consulting the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley about “preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes.”