Portugal To Deport Illegal Aliens Ahead Of Election

Portugal’s caretaker government is planning to expel some 18,000 foreigners living in the country without authorization, a minister said last 3 May in the buildup to a national election.

Minister of the Presidency António Leitão Amaro said the center-right government will issue approximately 18,000 notifications to people in the country illegally to leave. The minister said officials will begin next week by asking some 4,500 foreigners to leave voluntarily within 20 days.

LA Times Owner: "Competence Matters"

The owner of the Los Angeles Times just doubled down on his recent criticism of LA Mayor Karen Bass last 13 January, saying his paper made an error when it endorsed her candidacy in 2022.

"We’ll accept some blame. At the LA Times, we endorsed Karen Bass. I think, right now, up front, that’s a mistake, and we admit that," Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said.

President Trump Lost In New York, But He Actually Won

It has now became crystal clear that the Democrats are losing their grip on New York. It was evident in the last presidential election.

Donald Trump won a suburban county on Long Island last 5 November — outperforming the Republican Congress member who narrowly lost to a Democratic challenger. He actually made gains with Latino voters in the Bronx. He also picked up significant support in heavily immigrant areas of Queens.

Pres. Biden Gave Confusing Message On Who He Supports

Nobody can really make anything about the reason why President Biden briefly donned a "Trump 2024" hat during a visit to a Shanksville, Pa., fire station a few days ago. However, before speculation run wild, the White House said it was intended as a show of unity on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

"At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that," White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates posted on the social platform X. "As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it."

Google Adopting A Series Of Election-Related Safeguards

Election time is near for American citizens. It is considered as the most consequential elections in it the country's history. For this reason, tech giant Google is rolling out strict safeguards to ensure users get reliable information.

In addition to the measures it announced late last year, the company said last 30 August that it’s adding election-related guardrails to YouTube, Search, Google Play and AI products.

WhatsApp Accounts Connected to Iranian Hackers Were Taken Down

Social media giant Meta has taken some bold steps by blocking WhatsApp accounts involved in "a small cluster of likely social engineering activity" on the service.

In its recent report, they disclosed that it traced the activity to APT42 (also called UNC788 and Mint Sandstorm), which the FBI previously linked to a phishing campaign that targeted members of the Trump and Harris camps. The company said that the suspicious activity on WhatsApp "attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the United States and the UK." It also seemed to have focused on political and diplomatic officials, which included people associated with both presidential candidates.

Biden Drops Out. Is Harris in?

After intense pressure from within his own party, President Joe Biden announced that he was ending his campaign and backing Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his place. Ms. Harris said she would seek the nomination, adding: "Together, we will fight. And together, we will win."

"While it has been my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus entirely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term," Mr. Biden said in a statement. He called it "the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president."

"Make Europe Great Again" Slogan Spreads Far and Wide

Nobody was really surprised when Hungary revealed an official slogan with Donald Trump overtones recently for its six-month stint holding the EU presidency, but "Make Europe Great Again" still raised a few eyebrows in Brussels.

Hungary's ultranationalist, populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, a close ally of former US President Trump, is the most outspoken euroskeptic leader in the European Union.

Protest Against Rewriting Phil. Martial Law History

Election fever in the Philippines are heating up and some of the potential candidates are trying to rewrite history in their favor.

In a recent interview from Toni Gonzaga's Youtube Channel, former senator Bongbong Marcos said, "I’m the son of the longest-lasting president who brought the Philippines into the modern world really, and who brought the Philippines a sense of nationhood."

WH Staffers Want To Be Hidden When Biden Is Speakin'

There are several White House staffers who decided to mute their TV or turning it off altogether whenever President Joe Biden speaks with reporters because they are nervous their boss will commit a gaffe or veer off message, Politico reported.

"I know people who habitually don't watch it live for that reason," one White House official told Politico's West Wing Playbook newsletter.

Facebook Will Launch Advisory Group on Election Policy Issues

Social media giant Facebook is looking to create a standalone advisory committee for election-related policy decisions, according to a new report from The New York Times. The company has reportedly approached a number of policy experts and academics it is interested in recruiting for the group, which could give the company cover for some of its most consequential choices.

The group, which the Times characterizes as a commission, would potentially be empowered to weigh in on issues like election misinformation and political advertising — two of Facebook's biggest policy headaches. Facebook reportedly plans for the commission to be in place for the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and could announce its formation as soon as this fall.

Poland Elected Duda Again

The National Electoral Commission of Poland has just declared the incumbent President Andrzej Duda as the clear winner in the national election with 51.2 percent of the votes beating challenger Rafal Trzaskowski.

It is one of Poland's slimmest presidential election victory since the end of communism in 1989, where one of the major issues was the future of the country's strained relations with the European Union.

Tulsi Gabbard: DNC Lacks Transparency

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is among the many Democratic presidential candidates who did not qualify for September’s debate round by the recent deadline.

She claims it was because the criteria for making the debate stage "lacks transparency."

Illinois Election Ad Just Became A Very Popular Topic

The Republican primary challenger in Illinois’ gubernatorial race gained popularity and praised for a campaign ad that reveals the true agenda of the transgender community, Women's March activists and immigration activists.

State Rep. Jeanne Ives, who is running against Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in the Republican primary, released the ad last 3 February in an attempt to challenge her opponent’s conservative values.

Liberals In the U.S. Got Thrashed ... Again

Do we expect another blame game from liberals ... again? What will it be now? Russians? Hackers? Martians?

These are just some of the questions analysts raised after former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the one-sided contested congressional special election in suburban Atlanta last 20 June. The conservative Handel garnered 52 percent of the vote compared to Ossoff’s 48 percent when the Associated Press called the race.

Hillary Has No Idea Why She Lost

Hillary Clinton is still in denial that the reason why she lost the Presidency is because of her and her alone. There were no Russian interventions, there were no clandestine conspiracy within her party and definitely no anti-feminist movement aimed at taking her out.

Unfortunately, she is still delusional. Last 6 April, Clinton said that that misogyny "certainly" played a role in her bruising defeat to Donald Trump in last year's US presidential election, giving her first public interview since that shock loss.

Even Sen. Bernie Sanders Blames Hillary

Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump supporters are not racist "deplorables" and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party are to blame for November's convincing election defeat. This was the clear statement of Clinton’s defeated primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders during a rally in Boston last 31 March.

In a comment seized upon by the Trump campaign, Clinton famously said in September that half of Trump's supporters were "deplorables,' a comment which she almost immediately said she regretted.

Political Correctness Helped Donald Trump Win

Critics will say Donald Trump won because he successfully capitalized on blue collar workers' anxieties about immigration and globalization. A more level-headed group will claim he won because America rejected a deeply unpopular alternative. Still others will say the country is simply racist to its core.

But there's another major piece of the puzzle, and it would be a profound mistake to overlook it. Overlooking it was largely the problem, in the first place.

A Good Chance Far-Right Could Win French Election

The poll numbers showed a barrow lead and with one of her main rivals embroiled in an expenses scandal, far-right leader Marine Le Pen could feasibly become French president in May, senior politicians and commentators say.

At the headquarters of her National Front (FN) party in Nanterre outside Paris, officials believe the same forces that led to the Brexit vote in Britain and Donald Trump's victory in the United States could carry Le Pen to power.

After Brexit, Frexit Could Be Next

The stakes in French election just went up a notch further after far-right leader Marine Le Pen pledged last 6 December that she would campaign for France to leave the EU unless Brussels agreed to return full powers to control immigration and economic policy to member states.

The presidential candidate has promised if elected in May to dump the euro and organize a Brexit-style referendum on France's membership in the European Union.