Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) appeared to shift his opinion on President Trump’s $5,000 dividends announced earlier this week. In a debate at the Kansas State Fair against Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton, a moderator asked both candidates if they supported the dividends, citing the proposal’s $1.2 trillion cost amid the growing national debt. “I’m going to...
A federal judge determined Friday that the Trump administration broke the law when it attempted to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) workforce, a ruling which coincided with America's hurricane season. In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “unlawfully usurped the authority” of FEMA “to make...
Last month, Chicago elected a new mayor who believes that his city's high crime is the result of residents' frustration over low corporate taxes. And no, this isn't a put-on — he really said that.
In New Jersey's Edna Mahan prison, supposedly an all-female facility, there are 10 biological men being held. One of them impregnated two inmates last year.
Although they are clearly very different kinds of conflicts, multi-party efforts used to end three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland can offer guidance...
The Constitution vested the power to make laws in Congress, which is the most democratically elected branch of government. The executive branch, with a couple of exceptions, does what Congress says. And since Marbury v. Madison, the federal court system has had the role of determining when the executive is doing something it’s not allowed to do.
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — On Thursday, I flew out here with my daughter on United Airlines. I was giving a talk at Belmont Abbey College, and my daughter was touring the campus as the early kickoff of her process of discerning her post-high school plans.
