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Regency Alliance Insurance Plc shareholders have approved amendments to allow virtual general meetings and have re-elected two non-executive directors. Read More: https://punchng.com/regency-alliance-adopts-virtual-meetings-re-elects-two-directors/

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.

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Power shifts in Washington continued as new party leadership began to take shape. In the House, the GOP picked Jim Jordan to be their new leader and Senate Republicans re-elected John Thune. The House also voted to quash an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Lisa Desjardins reports.

The Federal Government has awarded N49m in non-dilutive funding to 17 youth-led businesses selected from over 19,000 applicants for a development programme Read More: https://punchng.com/fg-selects-17-youth-led-firms-for-n49m-business-grants/

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan defeated Majority Leader Steve Scalise for the role of minority leader.

Senate Republicans were meeting Tuesday for a "robust conversation" on their future and to decide whether to keep South Dakota Sen. John Thune as their leader, just a week after steep losses in the midterm elections that cost them their majority.

Ramakrishnan says CITU will launch a series of protests against what he termed the UDF government’s unilateral move to transfer en masse employees of various government departments and State-run PSUs

Nova Scotia sends the U.S. city a large Christmas tree every year to thank it for sending medical personnel and supplies after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.

Win follows Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York and resounding victories by other progressives in Washington and Providence

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The Federal Government has explained how it selects beneficiaries for its N50,000 cash relief from verified national identity records and the social regist Read More: https://punchng.com/how-fg-selects-beneficiaries-for-n50000-relief/

Every Wednesday, dive into the Indie Select Hub — your gateway to a fresh, curated indie collection plus four themed spotlights that rotate weekly! You can always find this collection hub in the XBOX Store and on XBOX.com/IndieSelects. The holiday season is just around the corner, and the ID@XBOX team is excited to share November’s […] The post Indie Selects

Al Jazeera’s Matthew Torres reports on the historic gubernatorial election win in Georgia.

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has been elected Georgia's first Black governor, CBS News projects, flipping the position for Democrats.

Adam Hamilton beat Republican Roger Marshall in a highly competitive race.

Democrat Amy Acton beat biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican backed by President Trump, in a race marked in the final weeks by a Ramaswamy attack ad that drew national criticism.

Annie Andrews is projected to defeat Darline Graham, who was handpicked by President Trump to take her brother's seat after his death.

Keisha Lance Bottoms' win marks the first time Georgia has elected a Democratic governor in more than 20 years.

The election, held at UN headquarters, required several rounds of voting to fill the fifth and final seat.

So far, 2026 has seen a flood of successes for volunteers who do NASA science, exemplifying NASA’s commitment to gold-standard science—transparent, reproducible and intrinsically collaborative. The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announced that their project volunteers have now discovered most of the known brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are similar t

Super Bowl halftime show producer Jay-Z has selected himself to headline the upcoming event. Steven Horowitz, senior music writer at Variety, joins "The Daily Report."

Coleman replaces Kenny Jacobs who stood down earlier this year

The World Association for Christian Communication Africa has elected Nigerian journalist Lekan Otufodunrin as its new president for a four-year term. Read More: https://punchng.com/association-of-christian-communication-africa-elects-nigerian-journalist-president/

The Palakkad-based organisation promotes art and culture and has over 3,000 members

A new government would not end the occupation, but it could rein in the far right and ease tensions across the region.

Senior Counsel Jimmy Yim and former LawSoc vice-president Samuel Chacko, the two heavyweight lawyers contesting in groups this election, were both successfully elected to the council.