The US announced sanctions on Thursday against Nicaraguan Attorney General Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, accusing her of assisting the “ruthless oppression of peaceful opposition members” in the country. The Treasury Department dubbed Morales Urbina a "key actor in the Nicaraguan regime’s unjust persecution of political prisoners," according to a press release announcing its sanction. Morales...
A group of 16 Republican attorneys general from around the country sued the Biden administration on Thursday over its pause on federal permits for new liquid natural gas (LNG) exports. The states, led by Louisiana and Texas, demand the Department of Energy overturn the ban, which was announced in January. They claim the administration lacks...
Tennessee became the first state to protect its residents’ voice rights on Thursday when Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed the ELVIS Act, designed to protest musicians from artificial intelligence replication. "There are certainly many things that are positive about what AI does,” Lee said. “It also, when fallen into the hands of bad actors, it...
Rep. David Trone, D-Md., the Democrat frontrunner in Maryland's contentious Senate race, dropped a racial slur during a House Budget Committee hearing.
An obscure congressional rule could force the House to vote on Ukraine aid without Speaker Johnson's blessing, but the last time it was used successfully was under Reagan
A discharge petition are methods for a majority of House members to bypass the House Speaker, some members of Congress are looking to use the rarely successful parliamentary tool.
Those cheering the Biden administration’s electric-vehicle mandates or Gov. Hochul’s offshore wind farms would be wise to heed a painful and embarrassing lesson New...
New York City's high property taxes aren’t the result of discrimination; they’re just one example of a dysfunctional tax-assessment system that burdens homeowners and...
Leonel Moreno, a self-professed Venezuelan migrant, espouses leeching off government resources and seizing homes using squatter's rights — it's so wild, it almost seems...