How the color of St. Patrick’s Day went from blue to green
St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...
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Crass or cool, awesome or eyesore: Big 12 Tournament’s logo’d court makes a statement either way
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark wanted the league’s postseason tournament to reflect his idealized version of the league — young, hip, upscale and current — and ...
Newsday12d
German election winner Merz and center-left rivals start sounding out a possible coalition
BERLIN — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats ...
Daily Mail15d
Hard-right AfD will be the largest party in Germany by the next election, its leader says after huge boost in support saw them finishing second to mainstream conservatives
The leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the far-right Germany political party, has boldly claimed it will be the largest party in the country by the next election, after it finished second in ...
Al Jazeera English16d
Far-right AfD and socialist left win over young Germans, election reveals
Young Germans leaned to the far ends of the political spectrum in Sunday’s election, with most backing Die Linke (The Left) and the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), or Alternative ...
The Financial Times16d
Germany’s AfD brings ‘friendly face of National Socialism’ into fold
The move was opposed by other parties. AfD MP Kay Gottschalk said it would be harder for its rivals to do the same again this time round. “It’s very hard under this pressure [from voters] to ...
The New York Times16d
The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne Frankfurt Three and a half decades after reunification, a line runs through Germany where the Iron Curtain once stood. Instead of barbed ...
BBC16d
German politics froze out the far right for years – is this about to change?
One in five German voters put an X in the box for Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday: a record result that has made them the second biggest force in German politics. Riding on the back of ...
The New York Times16d
How a Demographic ‘Doom Loop’ Helped Germany’s Far Right
Some segments of the party, known as the AfD, have been classified as extremist by German intelligence. How could that happen in Germany, a country whose history has taught a bitter lesson about ...
The Independent16d
Who are the AfD? Germany’s new far-right opposition and the subject of Elon Musk’s infatuation
The AfD doubled their share from 2021 to win 20.8 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s election, in a surge described by victor Friedrich Merz – whose conservative bloc won with just 28.5 per cent ...
Al Jazeera English16d
Charting the rise of Germany’s far-right AfD party
In a historic shift in Germany’s political landscape, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the second largest party in the Bundestag, winning 20.8 percent of the vote ...
USA Today16d
Elon Musk's X supported far-right German party celebrating historic election gains
Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second with 20% of the vote, its best election results since its founding just over a decade ago. While AfD didn't take home a majority, it squeezed votes ...