Politics

The war in Ukraine is the war you’ve heard about the most over the past year. A war over Taiwan is the war you may hear about next. The conflict in Ukraine certainly carries geopolitical…

Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday named Kathleen Corradi, a former elementary school teacher and lifelong anti-rat activist, as the city’s first director of rodent mitigation.Several former mayors, including Republican Rudy Giuliani…

President Biden called the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia ‘totally illegal’ Tuesday, one day after the State Department designated him as ‘wrongly detained.’ Biden also spoke with Gershkovich’s family while…

Two weeks after the North Dakota House failed to pass a measure that would have provided free lunch to low-income students in public schools, the state Senate has passed a bill that would give qualifying…

Democratic Massachusetts House Speaker Ronald Mariano unveiled a $654 million tax cut proposal Tuesday, aiming to provide relief for seniors, renters, businesses and wealthier homeowners.The plan would increase to $1.1 billion in relief come 2026.’This…

A wealthy former Maine gubernatorial candidate charged with possession of images depicting child sexual abuse reached an agreement with prosecutors in which he’ll spend some time incarcerated, a prosecutor said Tuesday. The hearing for Eliot…

Indiana lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to a Republican-backed proposal that would require voters to submit more identification information to obtain mail-in ballots, rejecting arguments that the tougher rules would make voting more difficult for…

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin briefed reporters on the leaking of dozens of sensitive and highly classified documents Tuesday, saying they were ‘somewhere in the web.’ ‘Well, they were somewhere…in the web and where…

Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is on his way out as Gov. Kevin Stitt’s secretary of education. Stitt on Tuesday announced in a press release that he is appointing Oklahoma State University professor…

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday appealed a court order that required his former vice president, Mike Pence, to testify as part of the Justice Department’s probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot…