Conservatives and free-market advocates are heartily backing a proposed merger between the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads, saying the blockbuster freight deal would fuel President Trump's bid for a "new industrial era."
Maine GOP state lawmakers are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel for a federal investigation into an incident involving state ballots that were found in an Amazon customer's package.
Shutdowns of the federal government usually don't leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks riskier, not least because President Donald Trump is threatening to use the standoff to permanently eliminate thousands of government jobs and the state of the economy is already precarious.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit this week against the band Nirvana filed by the man who appeared as a naked baby on the cover of its "Nevermind" album and claimed it was child pornography.
Concerns about differences in voting counts between a county and the state in last year's election prompted the Hawai`i Elections Commission on Wednesday to call for statewide audit of the elections.