With a Medicaid expansion kickoff likely delayed further in North Carolina as General Assembly budget negotiations drag on, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper wrapped up a week of rural travel Thursday to attempt to build pressure upon Republicans to hustle on an agreement.
A Georgia state senator urged Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday to call a special legislative session to investigate Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who indicted former President Donald Trump earlier this week.
America's colleges are anxiously awaiting the outcome of a new federal Education Department investigation into Harvard University's admissions policy for "legacy" students, wondering whether the time has come to do away with a policy that seems to chiefly benefit White students.
A Connecticut alderman and mayoral candidate is pressing ahead with his campaign after being charged this week by federal prosecutors with illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
"Bidenomics" involves giving lots of money or regulatory protection to politically favored big businesses in the expectation that those companies will do politically desirable things, such as hire a bunch of Americans, provide a geopolitical advantage, or advance the cultural priorities of the governing party.
California continues to be the epitome of economic mediocrity for the vast majority of its residents, no matter how many times Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) boasts about the state’s gross domestic product.
With one week before the first Republican debate and five months until the Iowa caucuses, the party's presidential contest is still far from over. Still, despite the 91 criminal charges and impending financial drain because of his legal proceedings, former President Donald Trump remains the dominant front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, with a 40-odd point national lead over his closest competitor, Ron DeSantis, and comfortable double-digit margins over the Florida governor in the crucial early primary states.
With Los Angeles residents set to vote in March 2024 on a ballot measure requiring all hotels to house the homeless, a new poll shows that voters are overwhelmingly skeptical of the proposal.