All the Historic Firsts of the 2022 Midterm Elections

A historic Scots bowling club which took pride of place in the community for more than 100 years has been left a burnt out shell after a major fire.

Akon recently claimed that Kanye West’s spate of antisemitic comments over the last few months are all an attempt to draw votes away from Donald Trump in the next US presidential election. But what if it was actually an attempt to appeal to Trump himself? West says that, at a meeting with the former President yesterday, he asked Trump to be his running mate in 2024.West tweeted that he had met Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, adding that he’d turned up late and inappropriately dressed. Still, this seemingly didn’t put him off making his big proposal.“First time at Mar-a-Lago”, he wrote.

A new opinion poll has found that half of Scots would vote SNP in the next general election if a victory for the party could lead to Scottish independence.

Yvonne Wheeler, a veteran labor leader and civil rights activist, has been elected president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO – the first Black woman to hold the post. She succeeds Ron Herrera, who resigned last month after being caught up in the leaked tape scandal that roiled City Hall. IATSE 2nd Vice President Thom Davis had been serving as interim president. The Federation represents 300 affiliated labor organizations representing more than 800,000 members.

The Wonder director Sebastián Lelio and star Florence Pugh joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event to talk about their Netflix film and the power and fanaticism of faith. 

It was a true Grand Canyon State nail biter but Katie Hobbs prevailed over former TV anchor and Donald Trump acolyte Kari Lake in the race to be Arizona’s next governor, NBC and CNN projected on Monday.

In this special collector's edition of OK! magazine, take a look back on an unforgettable year for the Royal Family, with its joyful highs and sorrowful lows. With the help of royal experts, the magazine reflects on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's final few months, including, of course, the Platinum Jubilee celebrations which marked her incredible seven decades on the throne. Plus, recall how the nation was united in grief following our monarch's death, and how King Charles - with the unwavering support of his loyal wife Camilla, Queen Consort - has embraced his new role.

The White House was said to be “giddy and gleeful” in the wake of Election Night’s surprisingly strong showing by Democrats. But the administration has nothing on the mood of Bill Maher, as exhibited on Friday’s Real Time.

Over the next couple days, Tuesday’s midterm election results will be debated for hours on end. There have been plenty of wins on both sides, but one thing is clear: the night’s biggest loser was Donald Trump.

“Well, we had an election yesterday, “said President Joe Biden his afternoon from the White House. “It was a good day I think for democracy, and I think it was a good day for America,” the self-admittedly horse but upbeat Commander-in-chief added.

This has been updated to reflect the 2022 midterm election results.It’s been, to say the least, a difficult year for abortion access, as the June overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court set the stage for reproductive rights to be challenged in .

A host of popular historic sites across the region remain closed due to safety concerns.

In anticipation of its release this coming week, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued its promotional tour with a historic premiere in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday evening. This was a major event — and the first time a Marvel movie has held a premiere locally — with a large group of talent, filmmakers and press on hand for the black carpet rollout. The sequel to the $1.348B grossing original pic played across multiple screens at Filmhouse Cinemas IMAX Lekki.

Surprising almost no one except perhaps Kyrie Irving’s Crisis PR team, Saturday Night Live voted tonight for the midterm election in its last Cold Open before Tuesday’s balloting.

Ange Postecoglou made it big in Japan - and his former apprentice has picked up where the Celtic manager left off with a famous J-League win.

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the fifth season of The Crown, which debuts all 10-episodes on Netflix on November 9

, a nonprofit and nonpartisan voting technology platform, Andrea Hailey is leading the way in increasing voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. With a career spent on Capitol Hill and founding the , a grassroots organization, Hailey is an expert on voter digital organizing. To date, her work has resulted in more than 3.3 million requests for mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election.

in sartorial solidarity with . Four years later, the move was replicated (though less ubiquitously) with . Like democracy, is inextricably tied to capitalism.

Broadcast networks are devoting their primetime hours to coverage of next week’s midterm results, underscoring the stakes and interest in this year’s election. But the night is also a bit of a prelude to 2024, as all of the news divisions and cable news outlets hope that audiences will return for another momentous presidential election. 

The upcoming U.S. midterm elections, which are taking place on Tuesday November 8, are set to be one of the most-watched in years due to the heightened nature of politics right now.