More than 150,000 Republicans voted for Nikki Haley in Pa. primary

PHILADELPHIA — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential race in early March but still received more than 16% of the vote in Pennsylvania’s Republican presidential primary Tuesday, a sign of discontent with former President Donald Trump as the GOP nominee.

The vote for Haley, whose name appeared on the ballot despite her campaign suspension, was strongest in Southeastern Pennsylvania, with Montgomery County giving Haley nearly a quarter of the vote.

Those areas, heavily Democratic and home to many more moderate Republicans, are counties where Trump lost by his largest margins in 2020.

It’s not necessarily indicative of trouble for Trump here in the fall, though. Many of the registered Republicans who voted for Haley may be moderate Republicans who had already turned against Trump, voted for President Joe Biden last time around, and plan to do the same in the general election.

—The Philadelphia Inquirer

UN resolution against arms race in space fails due to Russian veto

UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. resolution tabled by the United States and Japan against an arms race in space has failed in the U.N. Security Council due to a veto by Russia.

The draft resolution received 13 out of 15 votes in the Security Council, the most powerful U.N. body, in New York on Wednesday. China abstained.

The draft resolution called on all states, in particular those with major space capabilities, "to contribute actively to the objective of the peaceful use of outer space and of the prevention of an arms race in outer space and to refrain from actions contrary to that objective and to the relevant existing treaties in the interest of maintaining international peace and security and promoting international cooperation."

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