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Young women voters were a driving force behind the victory in Berlin on Sunday for the far-left Die Linke party, the descendant of East Germany’s former communist ruling party. For the first time since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, a plurality of voters in the German capital backed a radical socialist party in a state election, with Die Linke (The Left) comfortably sailing to a win over the faltering Christian Democrats of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The far-left party, a reformulation of the Socialist Unity Party, which once ruled with an iron fist for four decades over the Soviet satellite state…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer reported progress in talks with Chinese officials ahead of this week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, while leaving unresolved the terms of an extension to the countries’ trade truce. Greer indicated Monday that Washington could support extending the agreement by three to six months, according to Bloomberg News. The two sides will continue negotiating, with the duration of an extension remaining a point of disagreement. “The focus is on stability between the US and China and we are continuing that,” Greer said, Bloomberg reported. Bessent…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while there are Democrats like Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Roy Cooper who aren’t on the fringe, they aren’t exactly fighting their party’s fringe either. “Raging Moderates” podcast co-host and co-host of the Fox News Channel’s “The Five” Jessica Tarlov said that there are Democrats, including Ossoff and Cooper, who are “talking about your cost of living, healthcare, the corruption of this administration, and it is resonating across the board. Those are the normies that I was talking –.” Maher then cut in to…

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) endorsed GOP Rep. Mike Lawler in his reelection campaign in suburban New York, Golden wrote in an opinion article published Monday.Lawler is facing a tough reelection campaign against Democrat Cait Conley in one of the biggest House battlegrounds this November. The lawmakers have previously collaborated to advance the Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act, and are both members of the centrist Problem Solvers Caucus.Golden, who is not running for reelection, was one of two House Democrats to break with the party and twice vote in favor of the Republican legislative agenda earlier in September. He and Rep. Marie…

The bloc’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, ignored the 1,600 drones launched by Ukraine as over 60 million people cast their ballots EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has lashed out at the results of Russia’s parliamentary election, dismissing it as a “veneer of democracy.” The senior EU official, a noted Russia hawk who was appointed, not elected, to her post in 2024, made no mention of the 1,600 drones Ukraine launched into Russia during the vote.Her claims of democratic dysfunction did not include Ukraine’s own indefinitely suspended elections, but stuck to a vote whereby some 60 million people cast ballots…

Denver DSA mayoral candidate Shontel Lewis/Image: Video screenshot. Shontel Lewis, a Democratic Socialist running in the Denver mayoral election, has a unique spin on her prior arrest for the theft of food stamps. She says it makes her more qualified to hold office. In 2008, while she worked at the Department of Human Services East Food Stamp Office, Lewis used that job to take public benefit money that belonged to other people. According to the police affidavit reported by the Denver Post, she searched EBT systems for inactive accounts that still had money and reissued benefit cards from those accounts. She…

Researchers have revealed that 45 data center projects worth $68 billion were blocked or delayed by local pushback across the United States between April and June. Bloomberg reports that the projects, tracked by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence company 10a Labs, made up more than half of all new large-scale developments the group monitored during that period. Data Center Watch’s lead analyst, Miquel Vila, said opposition to the industry is broadening. “New groups continue to emerge, opposition is appearing across a wide range of states and jurisdictions, and online petition signatures continue to grow,” he said.…

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rejected warnings that AI could wipe out humanity within years, calling such predictions unscientific and irresponsible in an interview with CBS News. In an interview with CBS News, Huang pushed back on warnings of AI doom that have circulated widely in recent weeks. “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” he said. He called the AI doomsday framing harmful, adding, “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.” Huang was responding to comments made earlier this month by…

On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) said that Democrats need to bring in people from the DSA and progressive left because “the alternative is that the party can perfectly represent some of the constituencies within the party and be a beautiful minority party, and I’m not particularly interested in that. So, yes, this party needs to make that accommodation.” But also that the election will hinge on who represents the mainstream of the electorate. Host Dasha Burns asked, “Rep. Case, you also — you recently fended off a primary challenge from a progressive candidate. I’m curious…

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) on Monday expressed frustration over the ongoing war in Iran and its impact on Iowans’ pocketbooks, publicly distancing herself from President Donald Trump ahead of November’s rapidly approaching midterm elections.“Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran,” Hinson said in a post to social media on Monday. “We need to use every option at our disposal to provide some relief from high prices.”It’s the second time Hinson, the GOP candidate in Iowa’s critical Senate race and a loyal ally of Trump’s,…