Politics

The current and previous Republican labor commissioners in North Carolina are backing competing candidates in next year’s GOP primary for the job. Cherie Berry, who was commissioner for 20 years through early 2021, endorsed Raleigh…

Legal experts are criticizing special counsel Jack Smith for his latest indictment against Donald Trump for accusing the former president of spreading disinformation and other activities protected by the First Amendment. Trump was indicted out of…

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called on the Tennessee governor, FBI and Metropolitan Nashville Police Department to release the Covenant School shooter’s manifesto. Ramaswamy delivered a speech outside Nashville City Hall on Wednesday, calling on…

Recreational cannabis has been legalized in more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., and there is now a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to change a law that limits federal hiring by automatically disqualifying candidates…

Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was not ‘smart enough to be president’ after the Republican criticized a new Illinois state law…

FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on Tuesday called the latest indictment of former President Trump an ‘outrageous abuse of power’ and dismissed it as an attempt by the Biden administration to distract from testimony from earlier…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday that his government is standing firm against the U.S. and its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over the journalist’s publication of classified U.S. military documents more than…

Several California politicians are urging Taylor Swift not to perform concerts in Los Angeles as a way to stand in solidarity with striking hotel workers. Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and dozens of state and local…

The first Republican presidential primary debate is less than a month away, and seven of the candidates seeking the GOP nomination for the White House have met the required polling and fundraising criteria to earn…

In a move that has outraged police, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office issued guidelines calling for fewer White men and veterans to be featured in Seattle Police Department (SPD) recruitment materials, according to a memo…