US Alaska to tabulate ranked-choice ballots as Palin attempts political comeback

Alaska elections officials will tabulate the state’s ranked-choice ballots for the first time on Wednesday, determining whether former Gov. Sarah Palin will make a political comeback by winning a special election for the state’s lone House seat.

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Mikhail Gorbachev: Why last Soviet leader won Nobel Prize & how he put an end to cold war

Mikhail Gorbachev had been widely acclaimed in the Western world for his role in ending the Cold War without shedding a single unit of blood.

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Poll: Black Americans see racism as a persistent challenge, and few say the country’s racial reckoning has brought change

Two-thirds of Black Americans say that recent increased focus on race and racial inequality in the US has not led to changes that are improving the lives of Black people, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center

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