West Virginia Primaries Align Biden Trump for Nomination
In Charleston voters on the hottest day of the year chose presidential, gubernatorial, Senate and House candidates across both parties. Biden clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and Trump the Republican. Incumbent Gov. Jim Justice won the GOP nomination for reelection as the Supreme Court races narrow to 10 candidates for three seats. Capito led the U.S. Senate GOP contest, Ojeda and Swearengin led Democrats. House incumbents McKinley Mooney Miller face a field as WV plans to shed a seat after the 2020 census.
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U.S. Senate
US. House
West Virginia
Supreme Court
Joe Biden
Donald Trump
Biden
Trump
Jim Justice
Commerce
Woody Thrasher
Mike Folk
GOP
Shelby Jean Fitzhugh
Brooke Lunsford
Division of Highways
Charles Sheedy
Doug Six
Kanawha
Ben Salango
Ron Stallings
Stephen Smith
Douglas Hughes
FedEx
Jody Murphy
State Supreme Court
Tim Armstead
Richard Neely
David Hummel
Armstead
House
Menis Ketchum
Margaret Workman
Joanna Tabit
Jim Douglas
Kris Raynes
Bill Wooton
John Hutchison
Allen Loughry
Loughry
Hutchison
Lora Dyer
William Schwartz
Shelley
Moore Capito
Allen Whitt
Family Policy Council of
Larry Butcher
Capito
U.S. House
Richard Ojeda
South Charleston
Richie Robb
Paula Jean Swearengin
David McKinley
Alex Mooney
Berkeley Springs
Matthew Hahn
Cathy Kunkel
Carol Miller
Russell Siegel
Lewisburg
Huntington Bus Service
Paul Davis
Jeff Lewis
Hilary Turner
Huntington
Lacy Watson
Natalie Cline
U.S
Cline
Wheeling
Keyser
Tom Payne
McKinley
Patrick Morrisey
Wimmer
Isaac Sponaugle
Sam Petsonk
Dave Miller
Senate
Georgia voters endure heat and long lines in troubled primary
Georgia faced election meltdowns as heat and rain met five hour waits. Voters also faced machine glitches, reduced staff, and polling-place consolidations in Fulton DeKalb counties. Biden won Georgia’s Democratic primary while officials scramble to fix systems ahead of November.
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Georgia
White House
Benaiah Shaw
U.S. Senate
George Floyd
Minneapolis
Biden
Donald Trump
Fulton
DeKalb
New York Acts to Reveal Police Discipline Records
New York lawmakers repealed Section 50-a, ending decades of secrecy on police disciplinary records and misconduct complaints. The bill, amid a wave of reform measures, aims to publish transcripts and final dispositions, with Cuomo signaling support to sign. Additional measures would require body cameras for state troopers and mandated medical and mental health care for people in custody.
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N.Y
New York
George Floyd
NYPD
Floyd
Minneapolis
Andrew Cuomo
Delaware
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Eric Garner
Kevin Parker
London mulls removing imperial statues amid Floyd protests
London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a commission to review monuments, murals, street art and names to reflect diversity after protests linked to George Floyd's death. East London officials removed Robert Milligan statue as Bristol toppled Edward Colston’s statue amid global protests against racial injustice.
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George Floyd
Britain
Minnneapolis
Floyd
Houston
Texas
Sadiq Khan
Reahn
Khan
Robert Milligan
Joe Biggs
Tower Hamlets
Edward Colston
Bristol
Colston
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