Drawing a national spotlight as he prepares for a potential White House bid, Gov. Ron DeSantis opened the annual legislative session Tuesday by touting the state's accomplishments and vowing to "swing for the fences so that we can ensure Florida remains number one."
Messages proving network hosts and executives knew what they were saying was false and ‘reckless’ are now on record forever
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., received pushback from Democrats after asking at a House hearing why Hunter Biden had not been charged with allegedly lying on an ATF gun form.
The former senator from Minnesota roasted his onetime colleague from Maine.
Social media posts claim documents released under a law requiring public access to information show former House speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke by phone with Ray Epps, a man frequently mentioned in conspiracies surrounding the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. This is false; there is no evidence such records exist and only the executive branch is legally required to comply with freedom of information requests.
California lawmakers voted on Thursday to advance a bill that would penalize oil companies for “price gouging” — a first-of-its-kind legislation pushed forward in recent months by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). The SBX1-2 bill, sponsored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner (D), received the approval of the California State Senate in an Extraordinary Session convened to fast-track…
The leaked draft opinion stopped debate on the case between the justices, CNN's Joan Biskupic reported.
Officers from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources recovered 463 pounds of illegally poached salmon that were caught by a group of Colorado fishermen who have been fined.
South Carolina's embattled top accountant will step down next month after a $3.5 billion error in the year-end financial report he oversaw, according to a resignation letter written Thursday that was obtained by The Associated Press. Republican Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom's decision to leave the post he has held for 20 years came after intense scrutiny of his performance following the blunder and amid rising calls for him to either quit or be removed. The Senate panel investigating the financial misstatement issued a damning report last week accusing Eckstrom of "willful neglect of duty.”
US lawmakers grilled TikTok's CEO about the company's ties to China and its content moderation policies, but it did little to change their views.
In 1999, guest columnist got a crash course in 'eminent domain' as practiced by Oklahoma's Turnpike Authority and Department of Transportation.
Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, reported receiving threats and personal attacks over her bill sponsorship. “I think it’s just the general mood. Unfortunately, we’ve gotten to kind of a real ugly place in our politics where people stoke division and fear and hate for political gain. And they’re not ashamed to lie in the process.”
AUSTIN, Texas – New legislation is heating up the long-running cold war between Texas’ relatively progressive cities and its GOP-dominated legislature. Local officials across Texas are worried that far-reaching state bills could roll back their attempts to ensure construction workers get rest breaks in Texas’ searing heat, to run no-kill animal shelters and to maintain local water…
The Congressional Integrity Project has asked a Kentucky prosecutor to investigate Jamie Comer's admission that he leaked emails to discredit a rival
Announcing the news, a punchy blog post from the exchange said: "We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans. We got legal threats instead."
Doctors used to take the Hippocratic Oath. These days it seems like before heading to Tallahassee, some Florida politicians take a Hypocritical Oath.
The Presidency of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute has reacted to Russian threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC) and retaliatory measures taken by Russia against the prosecutor and judges involved in the issuance of arrest warrants regarding Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
The U.S. reached its debt ceiling on Jan. 19, the Treasury Department announced on Thursday, Jan. 19. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says extraordinary measures have begun to mitigate financial...
Oily rags are the likely cause of the raging fire that destroyed a Medford home owned by the son of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren Tuesday morning.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to respond to questioning about payments House Republicans say the Biden received from a Chinese company.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans has upheld a lower court ruling blocking President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees from being enforced.
