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A majority of voters back House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plan to increase the debt ceiling and in exchange for lower future deficit spending. Most voters also expect the White House to compromise on the bill, according to a Rasmussen Reports national survey released Tuesday. The results of the poll showed that 57% of likely U.S. voters support the debt-ceiling bill passed by the Republicans in

Turkey's powerful president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will go head to head with his opposition rival in a run-off vote, the supreme election council has confirmed. Mr Erdogan led the first round with 49.51% of the vote, its chairman said. Although he had a clear lead over his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who polled 44.88%, he needed more than half the vote to win the race outright. A

Democrat Donna Deegan won the Jacksonville, Florida, mayoral race Tuesday night, making her the first in her party to win the seat since 2011 and the city’s first female mayor. Republican voters made a strong showing at the polls, with about 7,200 more Republicans than Democrats voting, but Deegan performed strongly among independent voters and won votes from some registered Republicans,

Former Philadelphia city councilor and left-wing candidate Helen Gym, a Green New Deal supporter, has lost the Democratic primary in the Philadelphia mayor’s race. Gym finished third, losing to former City Council member Cherelle Parker, according to Politico. An Emerson College opinion poll conducted before Tuesday’s primary had projected Gym as leading by just 2.3% in a close, eight-way race