Voting

Solana's high staking rewards will live to inflate SOL another day. A contentious effort to reform the blockchain network's generous inflation regime flopped on Thursday after supporters of SIMD-0288 failed to garner the supermajority they needed to implement the major economic change. The surprise result delivered a blow to the Solana power brokers who rallied to replace Solana's static inflation mechanics with a market-based system. Their proposal likely would have cut the network's 4.7% annual staking rewards down to 1% or less.

(1) In accordance with Article 223-11 of the AMF General Regulation, this number is calculated on the basis of all the shares to which voting rights are attached, including shares for which voting rights have been suspended.

(2) Total number of exercisable voting rights, after deduction of 44,602,344 treasury shares.

President Donald Trump tore into former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for being the lone Republican to vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health Secretary on Thursday. Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate 52-48, with every Democrat and McConnell voting against him. Meeting with reporters in the Oval Office later in the day, Trump said McConnell was voting against him, not Kennedy. “I was the one that got him to drop out of the leadership position, so he can’t love me. But he’s not voting against Bobby, he’s...

The Associated Press published a story on the AP NFL Awards, Feb. 6, 2025. This story has been corrected to remove an invalid ballot that was inadvertently included in the tabulation. The AP has adjusted its point totals to reflect 49 voters instead of 50. This correction does not impact the winners or the list of finalists distributed by AP.

Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy has reintroduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE Act, which requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The bill could prevent millions of married women from being able to vote. The bill would require all Americans to provide a birth certificate, passport, or one of a few other citizenship documents (which themselves require a birth certificate to obtain) every time they register or re-register to vote. Since many married women take their husband’s...

The highest court in New York State, the Court of Appeals, has an easy case before the seven judges today: They should uphold the lower court rulings that the City Council went too far in granting the right to vote in local elections to certain documented noncitizens, such as permanent residents. We actually agree with the sentiment in wanting to allow noncitizens like green card holders to vote in municipal elections, after all they live here legally and pay taxes so should they have a say in electing Councilmembers and...

The U.S. Mint reported losing more than $85 million in the last fiscal year that ended in September on the roughly 3 billion pennies it produced. "For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!" Trump wrote Sunday night on his Truth Social platform. "I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies." While , Tennessee workers who supply the U.S. Mint with the blank discs stamped into pennies , according to...

“It’s hard to discuss because it’s crazy it’s even an issue,” said state Sen. Andrew Lanza, a Staten Island Republican. “Citizens ought to vote; if you’re not a citizen of a country, you should not have a say.” The legal fight in Albany is the latest front in the political battle over migrants — an issue central to President Donald Trump’s electoral victory last November. Trump and other Republicans have made the unfounded claim that noncitizens are illegally voting in large numbers, and eight states approved constitutional amendments in 2024...