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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Democracy, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 354 stories have been published about Democracy which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Democracy, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 354 stories have been published about Democracy which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Business · WashingtonDemocrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in their giant economic bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday, as they drove toward delivering a campaign-season victory to President Joe Biden on his domestic agenda.
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Dems change some tax provisions as they ready economic bill
79% Center coverage: 47 sources
Europe · New YorkPrince Harry speaks at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual celebration of Nelson Mandela International Day. The 37-year-old Duke of Sussex said a photo on his wall of his mother meeting Mandela in Cape Town in 1997 is “in my heart every day.”See the Story
Prince Harry celebrates Mandela, urges climate action at U.N.
36% Right coverage: 36 sources
Nancy Pelosi · SeoulU.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met top South Korean political leaders on Thursday, a day after she concluded her high-profile visit to Taiwan by renewing Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defending democracy on the self-governing island despite vehement protests from China.
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After Taiwan, Pelosi in S. Korea meet political leaders
65% Center coverage: 20 sources
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Europe · EastbourneLiz Truss was interrupted by activists as she attempted to deliver her opening speech at a Conservative Party hustings in Eastbourne.
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Truss heckled by activists during Tory party hustings
60% Left coverage: 15 sources
DemocracyMore than half a million people have signed a petition in "defense of democracy" in Brazil. The petition is in response to President Jair Bolsonaro's attacks on public institutions and the electoral system. The presidential election is just two months away, in which he trails former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.See the Story
Pro-democracy petition garners 500,000 signatures in Brazil
80% Center coverage: 5 sources
Democracy · WashingtonA senior US official has urged China to do more to rein in Myanmar’s military after its execution of four people, saying that “it cannot be business as usual with the junta”, as the killings drew widespread international condemnation. State department spokesperson Ned Price told a briefing: “Arguably, no country has the potential to influence the trajectory of Burma’s next steps more so than the PRC [People’s Republic of China]”, noting that the junta “has not faced the level of economic and in some cases diplomatic pressure that we would like to see”.See the Story
Myanmar executions: US presses China to rein in junta, saying it cannot be ‘business as usual’
43% Left coverage: 7 sources
Democracy · WashingtonKeep Country First Policy Action, an Illinois PAC created by Rep. Adam Kinzinger, launched a new nonpartisan training program on Monday. The program will identify and train election workers and candidates running at all levels of government, with a particular focus on state and local offices.See the Story
Kinzinger unveiling new push to recruit ‘pro-democracy’ candidates
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DemocracySigning takes place the same week that the sociologist's death turns 25See the Story
Betinho signs in memoriam Letter in defense of Democracy
Democracy · WisconsinMADISON, Wis.—Wisconsin’s Democratic Senate primary seems like it isn’t much of a contest as voters go to the polls today but the moment those polls close the race for U.S. Senate in that state will become one of the most important in the nation. Lieut. Gov.See the Story
Democracy on the ballot again as four states hold primaries today
DemocracySenator Tim Kaine, valued the good climate for investments exhibited by the countries grouped in the Alliance for Development in Democracy.See the Story
U.S. senator considers the DR as ideal for capital investments
Democracy · KenyaKenya heads to the polls Tuesday to select the country’s new president amid soaring food and fuel prices, a crippling drought and, crucially, concerns over whether the vote will be free, fair and peaceful. This year will serve as the first major test for Kenya's electoral system since the chaotic 2017 election. Four candidates are in the running, and the favorites are veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga.See the Story
Why Kenya's Upcoming Election Is a Crucial Test for Democracy
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
