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U.S. Senator Cruz leads long-shot Republican bid to overturn Biden’s victory

U.S. Senator Cruz leads long-shot Republican bid to overturn Biden’s victory

JASON LANGE and TIMOTHY GARDNER U.S. Senator Ted Cruz will spearhead a drive by nearly a dozen Republican senators to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's victory when Electoral College results are tallied in Congress on January 6 – a largely symbolic move that has virtually no chance of preventing Biden from taking office. Cruz's effort is in defiance of Senate Republican leaders, who have argued that the Senate's role in certifying the election is largely ceremonial and had been looking to avoid an extended debate on the floor about the outcome. In a statement, Cruz, the U.S. senator from Texas, and…
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Azeris and Armenians say civilian areas attacked, NATO seeks ceasefire

Azeris and Armenians say civilian areas attacked, NATO seeks ceasefire

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NAILIA BAGIVORA ARMENIA and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on the ninth day of the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg added his voice to calls for an immediate end to the clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under international law but is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. But prospects for a ceasefire appeared remote after the fighting intensified over the weekend and following uncompromising comments by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In an address to the nation…
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How Kamala Harris found the political identity that had eluded her

How Kamala Harris found the political identity that had eluded her

JAMES OLIPHANT MONTHS after her presidential campaign collapsed amid questions over her political identity, Kamala Harris suddenly and forcefully found her voice – and at a fortuitous time. Harris, a 55-year-old U.S. senator from California, was chosen by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as his running mate on Tuesday, making history as the first Black woman and Asian-American on a major presidential ticket. Her selection came as little surprise. With the United States in the midst of a reckoning over its history of racial injustice, Biden had increasingly been pressed to select a woman of color. Harris, who became the…
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