Andrews ran a campaign on healthcare affordability and beat Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham to win
Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who campaigned on healthcare affordability, has won the race for US Senate in South Carolina, making her the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate for over a quarter century.
Andrews had faced an uphill battle in what has been seen as a reliably Republican state against Darline Graham, the sister of the late Republican powerbroker Lindsey Graham.
Continue reading...Roy Cooper wins election in North Carolina as Democrats hope disapproval with Trump gives them advantage
Roy Cooper has won the US Senate election in North Carolina, the Associated Press reports, a significant victory for Democrats in their quest to regain control of Congress’s upper chamber.
North Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the US Senate since 2008, and the success of Cooper, a former governor, brings his party one seat closer to retaking control of a chamber they lost two years ago, when Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Continue reading...Pappas focused campaign against Republican John Sununu on serving as a bulwark against Trump administration
Chris Pappas, the four-term Democratic congressman, has won New Hampshire’s US Senate race, protecting the open seat from a Republican flip in a closely fought contest against John Sununu, the former senator.
Pappas, 46, is a centrist voice in the US House who has at times broken with his party on major legislation. He focused his Senate campaign on serving as a bulwark against the Trump administration, which is unpopular in the Granite State. Pappas will be the first out gay man to serve in the US Senate.
Continue reading...Growing number of countries are resisting Russia’s reintegration into international hockey after a sports court lifted a ban on competition
Canada has joined a coalition of countries refusing to play ice hockey teams from Russia, with prime minister Mark Carney saying Russian skaters will not be able to compete in a world junior championship next month due to the war in Ukraine.
“While Russia and Belarus are supporting this illegal, unjustified, horrific war in Ukraine, as long as that’s going on, there will be none of those athletes competing for their countries in Canada,” Carney told reporters on Tuesday.
Continue reading...WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Democraten winnen bij de midtermverkiezingen een meerderheid in het Huis van Afgevaardigden. Dat voorspelt Decision Desk HQ, een organisatie die verkiezingsdata verzamelt. Het komt vrijwel altijd voor dat de partij van een zittende president, in dit geval de Republikeinen van Donald Trump, zetels verliest tijdens de midterms.
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Researchers who analysed 10,000 crashes say car size does matter.
A study of 13 years of crashes in Australia finds a link between car height and risk of pedestrian death, particularly for women and children. (In the past few years, Australia has recently started getting US-style Very Tall Cars.)
