Sarah Sanders may be on the verge of winning the Republican nomination for governor in Arkansas after employing the same skills she used as former President Donald Trump's spokesperson. Sanders is heavily favored in Tuesday's Republican primary after shattering fundraising records and blanke…
Florida House Democrats have tapped Rep. Fentrice Driskell as the caucus’s next leader for the 2022-2024 term, the first Black woman to hold the position. Driskell, of Tampa, will replace current leader Rep. Evan Jenne. In a statement, Driskell says she's humbled to take on the role. Her ele…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back on the decision by the conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco to deny her Communion over her support of abortion rights. Pelosi says she respects that people have opposing views but not when they impose them on others. The California Demo…
Fallout from last week’s primary election in Pennsylvania is playing out in the General Assembly. Two central Pennsylvania Republican House members are being punished for working to unseat fellow incumbents. In the Senate, Republican gubernatorial nominee Sen. Doug Mastriano is being allowed…
Relatives of people killed during Northern Ireland’s decades of violence have protested in London and Belfast. They were urging the government to drop plans to grant immunity to perpetrators of crimes committed during “the Troubles.” The British government says its Legacy and Reconciliation …
Leaders from some European nations and the head of NATO agreed that bolstering weapons systems and arming Ukraine is critical as Russia attacks its neighbor. Speaking on a securing Europe panel Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren say…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is putting his job and ability to withstand mounting legal troubles on the line in a Republican primary runoff against George P. Bush. The outcome Tuesday in America’s biggest red state will offer a gauge of how much weight the Bush name still carries in Tex…
The Republican-dominated Indiana Legislature is poised on Tuesday to override the GOP governor’s veto of a bill banning transgender students from competing in girls sports. That would mean Indiana would join more than a dozen states that have adopted similar laws in the past two years. The I…
Leaders of the U.S., Japan, Australia and India gathered in Tokyo on Tuesday for a summit of what's known as the Quad. The name comes from the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. It began as a loose partnership after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, when the four countries provided hu…
Sweden has denied it is providing any “financial assistance or military support” to Kurdish groups or entities in Syria — claims that Turkey’s using to back its opposition to Sweden’s and neighboring Finland’s historic bids to join NATO. The denial came as delegations from Sweden and Finland…
An Iowa Supreme Court decision is holding back the state's solidly Republican Legislature and governor from banning abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Iowa is among GOP-controlled states that would be expected to ban abortion, except for state high court decisions reco…
Montana health officials say transgender people can’t change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in defiance of a court order that temporarily blocked the Republican-controlled state’s bid to restrict transgender rights. The state health department said…
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein says he's recovering from a “minor stroke” that prompted doctors to remove a small blood clot. The second-term Democrat announced what happened in a tweet Tuesday. He says he had stroke-like symptoms Monday night and was taken to the hospital, where…
Gov. Tim Walz has named Nancy Daubenberger as his new transportation commissioner. It's a post she had filled on an interim basis since the departure of former Commissioner Margaret Anderson Kelliher. Daubenberger has worked for the Minnesota Department of Transportation for over 22 years, i…
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing her first reelection test in northwest Georgia as Republican voters judge the congresswoman's turbulent first term. Greene faced five Republican challengers Tuesday on the primary ballot in her northwest Georgia district, even as her status as a rig…
A massive recall is getting most of the blame for the U.S. baby formula shortage, but experts say the products have long been vulnerable to this type of crisis. They point to decades-old policies that have allowed a handful of companies to corner the market. Safety and manufacturing rules im…
The South Carolina lawmakers negotiating big gaps between the House and Senate versions of the state budget have received a big gift as the state’s economy continued to do better than predicted. Economists meeting Tuesday predicted that South Carolina can now expect to have about $950 millio…
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday. No other candidate challenged him for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus p…
Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker have six challengers between them in Tuesday’s primaries, but the two are already looking ahead to the general election. The GOP is trying to take back the seat Warnock won last year, helping Democrats squeak out …
Former Hong Kong Catholic leader Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others have denied charges that they failed to register a relief fund aimed at assisting protesters who faced legal costs during 2019 anti-government protests. The six, who also include singer Denise Ho, were arrested two weeks ag…
Donald Trump hopes to avoid embarrassment in the Georgia governor’s race on Tuesday as Republican primary voters decide the fate of his hand-picked candidate to lead one of the nation’s chief political battlegrounds. In all, five states are voting: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas and Minne…
The national and state Republican parties are taking the side of celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s neck-and-neck GOP primary contest for U.S. Senate and opposing a lawsuit by ex-hedge fund CEO David McCormick. Tuesday is the deadline for counties to report unofficial re…
Contradictory reports have emerged about the possible detention of former Moldovan president Igor Dodon, who leads the Eastern European country’s pro-Russian main opposition bloc. Moldovan media reported that police were conducting a search of a house described as belonging to Dodon, who ser…
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially landed at MSNBC, where she is expected to make appearances on the network’s cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show. Psaki will also appear on NBC and during MSNBC’s primetime special election programming th…
Russia has received a frosty reception at the start of an international conference on managing and protecting Antarctica. The 10-day meeting in Berlin to review the Antarctic Treaty is a rare point of diplomatic contact between Russia and other nations since the start of the war in Ukraine. …
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