Delaware Gov. John Carney said Friday that he will allow bills legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults in the state and authorizing the establishment of a state-licensed and regulated cannabis industry to become law without his signature.

North Dakota House lawmakers passed three bills Friday that would restrict transgender people's access to bathrooms, remove sexually explicit materials from the children's section of libraries, and expand child care assistance in the hopes of combating the state's workforce shortage.

The latest high-profile example of state legislative leadership deciding who can be heard during statehouse debates is playing out in Montana where a transgender lawmaker was silenced by Republican leaders for a second day Friday.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department's approval of the contentious Willow oil project on Friday, saying that despite President Joe Biden's campaign promise to end new drilling on federal lands, "We're not going to turn the faucet off and say we're not drilling anymore.''

The opening phase of the Republican presidential primary has largely centered on the escalating collision between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Most people are not partisans in the culture wars and are, in fact, put off by them. For that reason, the loser in most culture wars is whoever looks like the aggressor. And for that reason, the major left-leaning media often go into contortions to pretend conservatives are the aggressors in the culture wars.

Eight people, including a 12-year-old girl, were injured in two shootings in Southeast Washington, D.C., on Friday night.  Around 10 p.m., District police responded to reports of shots fired at the 500 block of Lebaum Street SE in the Congress Heights neighborhood, Assistant Chief Andre Wright said. There, officers found seven men who had been...