Tag: midterm election

Trump’s Democrat hometown breathes after US vote

by Thomas URBAIN Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s largely Democrat-voting hometown woke up Wednesday breathing a sigh of relief, pleased there were now checks on the president’s power but under few illusions that the political future of America would be any less divided. Having spent two years in denial that the anti-immigration Manhattan tycoon had won top office, many New Yorkers were in a better mood after Tuesday’s midterm […]

Trump makes final push in US midterm elections

by Sebastian SMITH and Michael MATHES, with Jim WATSON in Cleveland Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump embarked Monday on a whirlwind final push across three states to stop Democrats from breaking his Republicans’ stranglehold on the US Congress in midterm elections amounting to a battle for the soul of the turbulent country. Cleveland, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; then Cape Girardeau, Missouri: it will be well after midnight before the real […]

24–hr checkpoint sa buong bansa at pag-aresto sa private armed groups, ipinag-utos ni PNP Chief Albayalde

Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Sampung buwan bago ang midterm election, ipinag-utos na ni Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde ang pagpapaiting sa kanilang check point operation at intelligence gathering sa buong bansa. Ito ang nakikitang paraan ni Albayalde para mapigilan ang mga insidente ng karahasan na maaari pang mangyari kasunod ng serye ng pagpatay sa mga elected official. Bagaman hindi pa umiiral ang gun ban, target daw ng PNP na […]