The Daily Populous

Wednesday November 6th, 2024 evening edition

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Around the time of Trump's victory speech early Tuesday morning, Medvedev posted on Telegram his response to the election night.

Without directly congratulating the Republican candidate, Medvedev referred to how there was a "furious bipartisan anti-Russian consensus on Capitol Hill.".

Russian Security Council Vice Chairman and former President Dmitry Medvedev at Red Square, May 9, 2024, in Moscow, Russia.

He said that Donald Trump's election night performance was "useful" for Russia.

On Tuesday morning, Zelensky acknowledged the Republican's election night success, posting on X, "congratulations to Donald Trump on his impressive election victory!". »

Search interest for ‘did Joe Biden drop out’ is spiking on Election Day even though he withdrew months ago

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It appears as if some people were surprised to see that President Joe Biden wasn’t on the ballot this year.

The same day that Biden announced he’d no longer be running for president, he also endorsed Harris for the ticket.

Imagine being a voter who just today found out Joe Biden isn’t running pic.twitter.com/sLFuHTJmj6 — Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) November 5, 2024. »

Donald Trump wins 2nd term in historic return to White House

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Trump ended up with at least 279 electoral votes after clinching wins in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Nov. 4, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Evan Vucci/AP.

Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nov. 5, 2024. »

Abortion rights ballot measures pass in 7 states, fail in 3 others

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Voters in Arizona and Missouri approved ballot initiatives that will effectively protect abortion rights until fetal viability and undo existing abortion laws on the books.

The other amendment, that would have enshrined abortion rights until fetal viability in the conservative state’s constitution, was rejected.

South Dakota has a near-total ban on abortion, which snapped back into effect after Roe was struck down in 2022. »

As expected, Twitch has modified its new 'politics and sensitive social issues' rules, and nobody is happy with the changes

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"We have made some updates to our policy language to better clarify what needs a "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues" Content Classification Label (CCL)," Twitch wrote on X .

"We want to make clear that you don’t need to label your stream if you’re talking about your lived experience.

We’ve also clarified that a label is only required if discussion of the listed topics is the focus of the stream. »