More than 97,000 Wisconsin voters turned out on the first day of early in-person absentee voting Tuesday, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Elections Commission Chairwoman Ann Jacobs posted on X Tuesday night that so many people voted that it overloaded the state computer system and prompted the need for more server space. "We apologize for underestimating the incredible enthusiasm you all have for voting," she wrote. "This is unheard of turnout for the first day...

This past June, in London, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) convened a meeting of small publications from around the world. Editors traveled from South Africa, Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. In the preceding year, the foundations, now under the chairmanship of George Soros’s son Alexander, had unleashed what felt like a flood of funding in the small-budget world of little magazines. Among the American lefty magazine luminaries drawn across the...

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday declined to answer whether she is more “pro-Israel” than former President Donald Trump. Ms. Harris immediately skirted the issue, responding with anti-Trump rhetoric and comparisons with Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler without answering the question about support for Israel. “I believe that Donald Trump is dangerous,” she responded during a CNN town hall when asked point blank if she’s more “pro-Israel” than Mr. Trump. Ms. Harris then began referring...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is running into a problem with his victory plan based on Ukraine getting an invitation to join NATO — some of the alliance’s key members aren’t keen on that happening. Germany and the U.S. are among the major powers slow-walking Zelenskyy’s call for an immediate invitation to join NATO, according to four U.S. and NATO officials and diplomats who were granted anonymity to share the latest internal discussions. In his victory plan, Zelenskyy...

Donald Trump's US presidential election campaign rally in Georgia last month was strangely familiar, with the Republican candidate telling supporters: "I want German car companies to become American car companies." Subject to his winning a second term in the White House, Trump promised that any foreign automaker that chooses to increase production in the United States would receive the lowest taxes, energy costs and red tape. But then came a new threat of "very substantial...

A foreign-born billionaire and progressive activist organizations are bankrolling an Ohio redistricting ballot initiative that could cost Republicans multiple congressional seats and revive liberal hopes in the red-leaning state. Ohio Issue 1, the “Establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission Initiative,” would create a 15-member commission to create state-level and congressional redistricting maps. The commission would have five Democrats, five Republicans, and five independent members...

An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment. The doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, began the study in 2015 as part of a broader, multimillion-dollar federal project on transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited 95 children from across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave off the permanent physical...

A United Kingdom spy plane carried out a landmark flight along the western border of Russia earlier this month, which saw it complete a full transit of NATO's eastern flank. Newsweek's map, displaying Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, traces the flight of a Royal Air Force RC-135W reconnaissance aircraft, also known as Rivet Joint, on October 11 as it took off from the southernmost point of Greece on a flight to the northern tip of Finland. The aircraft was "the first to...

Türkiye has the right to cooperate with the BRICS economic group without undermining its status as a NATO member, the secretary-general of the US-led military bloc, Mark Rutte, has said.   The NATO chief made the remarks at a press conference in Estonia on Tuesday. Asked by the Estonian Public Broadcaster whether Ankara’s desire to become a member of BRICS, which the outlet described as a “Russia-dominated organization,” should be a cause for concern, Rutte stressed...

Yesterday, The Telegraph reported that senior aides to Sir Keir Starmer have been drawn into a row with Donald Trump over claims the Labour Party broke US electoral law by advising Kamala […]