A candidate for mayor of a violent city in Mexico has been killed as she began campaigning

MEXICO CITY — A candidate for mayor of a violence-wracked city in Mexico has been killed just as she began campaigning. Two authorities in the north-central state of Guanajuato said candidate Bertha Gaytán was shot to death on a street in a town just outside the city of Celaya. Mayorships in Mexico often included smaller … Read more

Speaker Mike Johnson tries to stop Republicans from campaigning against each other in bitter primary battles

Hear more on House Republican primary races on “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju” at 8 a.m. ET and 11 a.m. ET. House Republicans, who have seen their time in the majority devolve into a seemingly endless series of internal party feuds, now have a new problem: GOP lawmakers targeting other sitting members in their primaries. In at least … Read more

Congo’s presidential candidates kick off campaigning a month before election

KINSHASA, Congo — Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and a politician hoping to unseat him next month launched their campaigns Sunday as the incumbent leader faces ongoing violence in eastern Congo and a divided field of opposition candidates. Opposition party representatives who met in South Africa in recent days failed to unite behind a single challenger … Read more

Cambodia ruling get together victory a positive wager as campaigning begins for common election

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Campaigning for Cambodia’s common election formally started Saturday, an train that’s extra an affirmation of a nominally democratic course of than a prelude to a real contest. Eighteen events are contesting this 12 months’s polls, for which round 9.7 million individuals are eligible to vote to elect 125 members of Nationwide … Read more

Meet Pause AI, the Protest Group Campaigning In opposition to Human Extinction

The primary time we communicate, Joep Meindertsma shouldn’t be in a superb place. He tears up as he describes a dialog wherein he warned his niece concerning the threat of synthetic intelligence inflicting societal collapse. Afterward, she had a panic assault. “I cry each different day,” he says, talking over Zoom from his residence within … Read more