Voters Approve Incorporation of SpaceX Hub as Starbase, Texas

Voters Approve Incorporation of SpaceX Hub as Starbase, Texas

Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Mr. Musk’s long-held dreams. All but six of the 218 people who voted supported incorporating the city of Starbase, according to Cameron … Read more

Voting in a Fraught World, Australians Focus on Cost-of-Living Concerns

Voting in a Fraught World, Australians Focus on Cost-of-Living Concerns

Voters in Australia were casting their ballots in a general election on Saturday, the third major U.S. ally after Germany and Canada to vote in a global economic and political landscape upended by the second Trump administration. The two men vying to lead Australia — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, and … Read more

Right-Wing Group Used Photos of Emily Ratajkowski and Male Model to Lure Voters to the Polls

Right-Wing Group Used Photos of Emily Ratajkowski and Male Model to Lure Voters to the Polls

In urging “disaffected patriots” to head to the polls on Tuesday and cast ballots in Wisconsin’s election, the political advocacy group Look Ahead America relied partly on a fairly perfunctory get-out-the-vote strategy: It spammed about 250,000 residents on Monday with a text message that reminded them of the issues at stake. That text message came … Read more

Crucial Week for Trump: New Tariffs and Elections Will Test His Momentum

Crucial Week for Trump: New Tariffs and Elections Will Test His Momentum

President Trump’s political momentum will face a major test this week as Democrats try to turn various down-ballot races into a referendum on the White House, and Mr. Trump’s long-promised tariffs risk rattling allies and consumers alike. A State Supreme Court election in Wisconsin on Tuesday is seen as an indicator of support for Mr. … Read more

Mark Carney to Be the Next Prime Minister of Canada

Mark Carney to Be the Next Prime Minister of Canada

Amid a generational crisis in Canada’s relationship with the United States, the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday chose an unelected technocrat with deep experience in financial markets to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader and the country’s prime minister, and to take on President Trump. Mark Carney, 59, who steered the Bank of Canada … Read more

Canada’s Liberal Party To Elect New Leader and Prime Minister to Replace Trudeau: What to Know

Canada’s Liberal Party To Elect New Leader and Prime Minister to Replace Trudeau: What to Know

Two friends from Alberta, both with strong careers overseas and similar backgrounds, are vying to replace Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party and of Canada just as the country faces a generational crisis because of the Trump administration’s tariffs and sovereignty threats. Some 400,000 Liberal Party members were eligible to cast ballots in … Read more

Over a Dozen Conservative Party Donors Fund Britain’s Populist Reform U.K.

Over a Dozen Conservative Party Donors Fund Britain’s Populist Reform U.K.

Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform U.K. party has attracted more than a dozen donors from Britain’s once dominant Conservative Party, new data reveals, underlining the threat the Tories face from a right-wing populist party that models itself on President Trump’s MAGA movement. In total, Reform U.K. raised 4.75 million pounds ($6.1 million) last year, a sharp … Read more

Adrienne Adams Enters Mayor’s Race to Defeat Eric Adams (No Relation)

Adrienne Adams Enters Mayor’s Race to Defeat Eric Adams (No Relation)

Adrienne Adams, the first Black leader of the New York City Council, said on Wednesday that she would join the already crowded race for mayor with less than four months before the June primary. She is hoping to position herself as a principled and scandal-free alternative to the incumbent, Eric Adams, and the race’s presumptive … Read more

Cuomo Jolts New York’s Mayoral Race as His Challengers Attack

Cuomo Jolts New York’s Mayoral Race as His Challengers Attack

For months, the race for mayor of New York City has felt stuck in suspended animation. No more. The contest burst into motion on Sunday as a new front-runner, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, began a high-stakes comeback campaign in Lower Manhattan, and Mayor Eric Adams and seven fellow Democrats fanned out across the city … Read more

Black Leaders on Why They’ve Turned Against Eric Adams

Black Leaders on Why They’ve Turned Against Eric Adams

The speech by Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, in the closing week of Black History Month, seemed to be hitting all the right historical notes. He outlined the lineage tying together Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, Rosa Parks and Barack Obama and connected the dots between David Dinkins, the city’s first Black mayor, and … Read more