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Exit poll shows landslide win for Britain's Labour Party amid frustration with Conservatives
MPR News· 1 day agoBritain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions ...
Here are key takeaways from France's election round 1, where the far right prevails
MPR News· 4 days agoIt’s one of the most high-stakes two-round votes in the history of postwar France. At stake is whether Marine Le Pen's National Rally party will gain an absolute majority in the National Assembly ...
Posthaste: Economist 'busts some myths' about housing affordability in Canada
Financial Post· 3 days agoHousing affordability in Canada is a problem. Desjardins Financial economist Marc Desormeaux looked...
Why climate change makes a hurricane like Beryl more dangerous
MPR News· 1 day agoHurricane Beryl is tearing across the Caribbean this week, unleashing life-threatening flooding and dangerous wind as it heads toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Beryl has already racked up ...
Britain swings to the center-left in historic U.K. election landslide
MPR News· 16 hours agoWith far-right politics ascendant across the English Channel in France, the United Kingdom has swung in the opposite direction. Official election results Friday showed a landslide victory for ...
After controversial court rulings, a Voting Rights Act lawsuit takes an unusual turn
MPR News· 1 day agoIn a closely watched legal fight over how the federal Voting Rights Act can be enforced, civil rights groups have made an unusual move. Last Friday, attorneys led by the American Civil Liberties ...
A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial
MPR News· 2 days agoFor over a decade, taking a pill like Truvada every day has been the standard of care for HIV prevention efforts. In clinical trials, this type of preventive drug, called pre-exposure prophylaxis ...
Kentucky judge throws out Jewish mothers' lawsuit challenging the state's abortion ban
MPR News· 6 days agoA Kentucky judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by three Jewish mothers who argued that the state's near-total abortion ban violated the religious freedoms of those who believe life begins at birth ...
2 of Netflix's newest releases both have 100% critic scores
BGR· 2 days agoIt doesn’t always happen, but every now and then, Netflix releases a new title that earns...
Greece's new 6-day workweek law takes effect, bucking a trend
MPR News· 17 hours agoGreece enacted a new employment law this week that lays out a six-day workweek — at a time when dozens of other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day ...