Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking classified information, is seeking election to the U.S. Senate in the state of Maryland, a document seen on Saturday says. Manning has now gone from prison to U.S. senatorial candidate in less than a year during which she often made headlines, as the fame and infamy she gained by leaking a trove of classified documents follows her after release. The Federal Election Commission document, filed Thursday, lists Chelsea Elizabeth Manning of North Bethesda, Maryland, as a Democratic candidate for the Senate. Manning, now 30, was an army intelligence analyst sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 for leaking more than 700,000 classified documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The revelations by Manning, who is transgender and was then known as Bradley Manning, exposed covered-up misdeeds and possible crimes by U.S. troops and allies. Her actions made Manning a hero to anti-war and anti-secrecy activists but U.S. establishment figures branded her a traitor. Then-president Barack Obama commuted Manning’s sentence, leading to her release in May. During her incarceration Manning battled for, and won, the right to start hormone treatment. On Twitter she identifies herself as a “trans woman,” and carries the slogan: “Make powerful people angry.” The Democratic Senate incumbent is Ben Cardin, who was first elected in 2006 and is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In elections last year, transgender candidate Danika Roem was elected to the Virginia state House of Delegates, becoming the first openly… [Read full story]
A poor man in Nghe An Province is in desperate need of financial help to support his three small children after his wife passed away five days after giving birth to twins. The twins lost their mother when they are just five days old Nguyen Viet Manh, 29, lived in Nghe An Province with his wife Le Thi Oanh until she died of a heart attack just five days giving birth to twins. The twins are also in ill health. The eldest boy is about three years old, and cannot understand where his mother went. The couple got married for…... [read more]
Editor's note: Dr. Terry F. Buss is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration. He wrote this article exclusively for Tuoi Tre News. Democrats not only suffered when they lost the White House to Donald Trump who defeated Hillary Clinton. They also lost control of state governments. Republicans managed to retain control of the House and Senate. Democrats were on hard times after Obama’s exit. Watchers of politics wondered whether the Trump momentum would carry through a handful of special elections in 2017. This would be a sign to Democrats and Republicans as to whether Trump’s mystique…... [read more]
Editor's note: Dr. Terry F. Buss is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration. He wrote this article exclusively for Tuoi Tre News.Democrats not only suffered when they lost the White House to Donald Trump who defeated Hillary Clinton. They also lost control of state governments.Republicans managed to retain control of the House and Senate. Democrats were on hard times after Obama’s exit.Watchers of politics wondered whether the Trump momentum would carry through a handful of special elections in 2017.This would be a sign to Democrats and Republicans as to whether Trump’s mystique would lead to more…... [read more]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday officially endorsed the candidacy of embattled Republican Senate hopeful Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women when they were teenagers, including one who was 14 at the time. Trump had previously characterized the allegations against Moore as "very troubling" before changing tack and warning voters in the 70-year-old Christian conservative's home state of Alabama that a victory for his Democratic rival Doug Jones "would be a disaster!" On Monday, the White House said Trump had called Moore to offer his formal backing ahead of the December 12 special election…... [read more]
The Republicans have won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, increasing their power in the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency. The party won in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. And it is expected to post more gains as votes are counted in other states. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, poised to lead the chamber, said the result was a vote against "a government that people can no longer trust". In the mid-terms, so-called because they fell half way into Mr Obama's second four-year term in office, about one-third of the…... [read more]
