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The Story: Deval Patrick, a former Governor of Massachusetts (2007 - 2015), and since then a managing director at venture capital giant Bain Capital, formally...

With around 97 percent of the votes counted, the 45-year-old lawyer's tally stood at 58.3 percent of the vote in Saturday’s runoff against European Commission Vice President Maroš Šef?ovi?. "Perhaps we thought politics was only a sign of weakness, and today we see it as a sign of strength," she told jubilant supporters in Bratislava. She had convincingly won the first round of the election, two weeks earlier, with more than 40 percent of ballots cast, more than double that of her opponent. Most of the protesters held Fico’s government and his SMER party indirectly responsible for the killings. The subsequent investigation has discovered links between the man now charged with ordering the murders, Marian Ko?ner, and prominent politicians and officials. ?aputová’s victory is cause for celebration for pro-EU and democratic forces throughout Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Brussels. She told POLITICO in an interview a few days ahead of the result: “My main focus is to bring about change in Slovakia, and for Slovakia to be a reliable and predictable partner of the European Union.” ?aputová also said that her win could embolden anti-corruption activists and liberals across the Continent. “Obviously in the EU but also, more broadly, in Europe, developments in one country influence events in other countries and can have an inspirational effect,” she said. Michal Repa, her chief election strategist, said there is a yearning in the country for a fresh approach. While the role of Slovakia's president is largely ceremonial, ?aputová has said that she intends to be very active in ensuring justice for all Slovaks in reinforcing the independence of the public prosecutor’s office and in the naming of judges.

The 2020 presidential election will tell us much about the future political direction of Texas. The nation’s political future runs through our state and the other booming southwestern states that are changing just as speedily. Last month, President Donald Trump visited El Paso to build support for the proposed border wall in an effort to shore up his support among the more conservative voters of our state. Other 2020 presidential candidates such as U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former Massachusetts Gov. These rapid changes also portend serious challenges that need to be met with consensus leadership. Millions of Texans are income insecure, without health care insurance, or denied access to quality medical care. A plurality of Texans embrace the state’s growing diversity with optimism, according to a recent poll by the University of Texas and Texas Tribune. Texans of both parties have come to expect economic progress as a significant feature of government, combined with responsible growth. Political fights about moderation inside our polarized parties sapped significant energy in the 2018 cycle. Candidates also need to balance what voters want with the needs of the state and nation.

WASHINGTON (WNDU) - South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday announced he has launched an exploratory committee to consider a possible run for president of the United States. “I think it's pretty clear that I'm not like the others. The experience turned somewhat humbling when one reporter asked Buttigieg the best way to pronounce his name. He pronounced his name but added, "Around South Bend, they just call me Mayor Pete, and that’s fine with me.” While Buttigieg may be the only Democrat who has to announce his candidacy and pronounce his name, there’s plenty of time left to make a name for himself. “When you have a very spread-out and a very wide-open field [of candidates], one of the things it means is that everybody gets a shot. “Obviously, I am the first openly gay person to seek the Democratic nomination, but it’s not just about profile. At the end of the day, this has to be about ideas.” Buttigieg said he supports single-payer health care, wants to do away with the Electoral College and will run a campaign based on freedom, democracy and security. “And I actually think the -- let’s be honest -- underdog characteristics of this project are also something that’s going to give us permission and a healthy pressure to be bolder than the others to bring forward different ideas that others may hesitate to talk about if they’re more established,” he said. “I’m thinking about what the world is going to look like when I reach the current age of the current president, which is the year 2054, and if you’re thinking about what you’ll be doing in 2054, the world just looks a little bit different to you, because you know that you’re going to be picking up the pieces of reckless policies that are being made right now and the things that are not being done right now to secure us,” he said. At Wednesday’s press conference, a South Bend native who ran Buttigieg’s first mayoral campaign was on hand.

MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Marking the one-year anniversary of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Russians who played key roles in the Trump campaign gathered for a reunion in Moscow’s Red Square. The reunion gave hundreds of thousands of Russians an opportunity to celebrate and share warm memories of their successful 2016 effort. Alexey Zholtovsky, a computer specialist who set up over ten thousand separate troll accounts on social-media sites to benefit the Republican nominee, called the reunion a chance for Russians who worked on the Trump campaign to finally meet each other face to face. Vasilisa Lokhvitskaya, an intelligence analyst with close ties to the Kremlin, said that she “very much enjoyed getting to know” Donald Trump, Jr., Jeff Sessions, Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and George Papadopoulos over the course of many meetings to discuss the campaign. “They were all such fantastic guys,” she said. “So available, so accessible. It was never hard getting in touch with them. Those were the days!” However, she said that she was baffled by reports coming out of the White House in recent days indicating that Papadopoulos had played a peripheral role in the campaign. “There are, what, maybe three hundred thousand people here at this reunion?” she said. “We all met with George.”

Play Video 2:16 Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former mayor of New York, has said Brexit is the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from the election of Donald Trump as US president. Bloomberg argued that “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” with the Brexit vote, in a series of outspoken remarks made at a technology conference in Boston a fortnight ago. The CEO was in London on Tuesday to open a new European headquarters for Bloomberg in the City, covering 1.3 hectares (3.2 acres). “My former wife was a Brit, my daughters have British passports, so we love England – it’s the father of our country, I suppose. But what they are doing is not good and there is no easy way to get out of it because if they don’t pay a penalty, everyone else would drop out. So they can’t get as good of a deal as they had before.” He added: “I did say that I thought it was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done but then we Trumped it.” Bloomberg employs 4,000 staff in the UK and 20,000 worldwide, and the New York-based firm has long made the country its headquarters in Europe. “One of the things that is hurting us both in the United States and in the UK is that we have employees, not a lot but some, who are starting to say: ‘I don’t want to work here – can we transfer to some place else? This country doesn’t like immigrants,’” Bloomberg said. Whether we change the immigration laws or not, there is general feeling around the world that America is no longer an open, welcoming place and a lot of people don’t want to go there, and the same thing is happening in the UK because of Brexit.” Bloomberg first made the comments about Brexit at the little-reported HUBweek conference in Boston less than two weeks ago – and then repeated his quip about Brexit and Trump at an event in France on Monday. People are already taking space in other cities over there [Europe], us included.” On his visit to London, Bloomberg was more circumspect.