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Texas Republicans unveiled a new congressional map on Wednesday that would provide their party with five new red-leaning districts, a plan that — if enacted — could provide a boost to the party as it ...
A group of Jewish school kids were forced off a plane in Spain after they sang in Hebrew. Snopes looks into this story, and they find that there is no evidence to back up the airline's assertion they ...
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron are suing former Maga influencer Candace Owens after she falsely claimed France’s first lady was born a man. The French President and his wife are willing to travel to the ...
The final boundaries for 2026 (and 2029) are out. I've analysed what they mean for the 15 most marginal seats at Patreon - which seats flip on paper, which become more marginal and which become less ...
A guest post by Michael Littlewood: As New Zealand’s population ages and, in particular, as the proportion of over-65s increases, the cost of New Zealand Superannuation (NZS) is rising. We know that ...
The Media Council has upheld a complaint by David Seymour's office against this article on school lunches. It was found to have breached both the fairness and conflict of interest principles. The ...
It has been unbelievable that so many people have gone insane over the entirely sensible and trivial change to NZ passports where the language used by 99% of New Zealanders appears first and the ...
In 2015 and 2016, Trump could encapsulate an issue and reach people in a Twitter post of just a few words. Fast forward 10 years and compare his wafflingly elongated Truth posts. Sometimes, expounding ...
But they are not the highest priority problems. I have a son who is a professional fire-fighter. I would imagine that they most basic advice they receive is to point the hose at the fire. Stanford has ...
When Erica Stanford announced the scrapping of NCEA, Labour said that there hasn't been proper consultation, and it was all too hasty. Today we find out that Labour's supposed Education Spokesperson, ...
The Integrity Institute was set up by Grant and Marilyn Nelson. They used to fund the Institute of Governance and Policy Studies at VUW, but took their money away when IGPS wouldn’t produce what they ...
Even if you think the pols are biased against Trump, that doesn’t impact the trend. Trump had a good first month, then a bad three months after that. and a slight decline since. This helps explain why ...