The state of New York will charge carbon-emitting companies an estimated $75 billion in climate damage they allegedly caused between 2000 and 2018 under a law enacted on Dec. 26. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law on Thursday. It is certain to be challenged in court as a state preemption […]

President Joe Biden, on his last Christmas Eve in the Oval Office, signed 50 bills into law, including measures that make the bald eagle the country’s official bird, preclude members of Congress from collecting pensions if convicted of crimes, establish the first federal anti-hazing college campus standard, and restrain federal agencies from issuing “useless reports.” […]

President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona, completing a sweep of all seven battleground in the 2024 election. The Associated Press called the race at 9:21 p.m. ET on Nov. 9. With this win, Trump’s total electoral college count moves to 312 to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 226. Trump was projected to win the election on […]

LAS VEGAS—Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) has won a second six-year stint in the Senate, defeating Republican challenger Sam Brown. The Associated Press (AP) called the race at 12:15 a.m. ET on Nov. 9, four days after Election Day. Rosen shores up Democrats’ minority in the upper chamber after Republicans won control of the Senate. “Thank […]

LAS VEGAS—President-elect Donald Trump has flipped Nevada, nearly three days after he was declared winner of the 2024 race to the White House. The race was called at 9:15 p.m. PT on Nov. 8. Trump has now won six of the seven swing states and appears poised to capture them all. He is leading in […]

First-time candidate Republican Tim Sheehy has ended Montana Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-Mont.) three-term tenure in the U.S. Senate, capturing a seat that boosts the GOP’s newly-gained majority in the chamber. The race was called at 6:26 a.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 6 by The Associated Press, with Trump-endorsed Sheehy leading 52.8 percent to 45.4 percent […]

LAS VEGAS—More than 1 million Nevadans—nearly 53 percent of the state’s registered voters—have already cast ballots in the 2024 election, with Republicans turning out in higher numbers than Democrats in a triple-tier battleground state where nonpartisan voters will decide the Nov. 5 election. According to the Nevada secretary of state’s daily 9 a.m. update on […]

LAS VEGAS—Triple-tier battleground state Nevada’s two-week early voting period ended Nov. 1 with Republicans turning out in far higher numbers than Democrats while also posting significant gains in registered voters. Those trends have GOP boosters confident former President Donald Trump could be the first Republican to win the Silver State since 2004. Challenger Sam Brown […]

Nearly 47.5 million Americans have already voted in the 2024 election with 24.24 million doing so in-person and more than 23.38 million casting ballots through the mail, according to 9 p.m. (EDT) Oct. 28 tabulations by the University of Florida Election Lab. That’s nearly a third of the 158.4 million Americans who voted in the […]

Nearly 70 percent of the more than 154.6 million Americans who voted in the 2020 election did so by “non-traditional means” with 43 percent voting by mail and 26 percent casting ballots in-person prior to Election Day in the 47 states that offer early voting, according to the United State Census Bureau. About 67 percent […]

According to FiveThirtyEight’s Oct. 22 aggregate of opinion polls, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump are in a tight race—49 percent to 51 percent respectively—for the presidency. Although presidential race opinion polls have always been close, until recently, Harris has consistently held slight advantages of around 2 percent since she […]

When Nevada’s early voting period kicks off on Oct. 19, both parties will aggressively seek to secure their base votes, but the biggest prize in the smallest of the nation’s seven battleground states will be getting nonpartisan voters to the polls. At stake in the triple-tier battleground state are Nevada’s six electoral college votes and […]

The House Foreign Affairs Committee will formally initiate contempt-of-Congress proceedings against Secretary of State Antony Blinken for failing to comply with its subpoena to appear for a Sept. 24 oversight hearing on the calamitous August 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) opened the hearing, titled “An Assessment of the State Department’s Withdrawal […]

The decisions that led to the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021 are being investigated by Congress and debated in contentious campaigns, but for one day—or one morning, anyway—Capitol Hill paused to praise and honor 13 young Americans who gave their lives protecting the defenseless. During a Sept. 10 ceremony in the cathedral-somber Capitol rotunda, […]

The Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee has released findings from its three-year probe into the United States’ chaotic August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Democrat committee members have issued their own minority staff memorandum on the investigation. The committee’s report places responsibility for events leading up to the Aug. 26, 2021, Abbey Gate bombing—which left […]

Former President Donald Trump laid wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to mark the third anniversary of the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. Thirteen U.S. service members—11 Marines, one Navy corpsman, and one soldier—were among more than 170 people killed in a terrorist bombing at Abbey Gate […]

The primary slates in Florida, Alaska, and Wyoming don’t offer many competitive contests on Aug. 20, but they do feature some drama—notably in the Sunshine State, where House Freedom Caucus firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) bid for a fifth term is being challenged by a moderate backed by former Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). While […]

Americans are projected to travel in record numbers, spend more than ever, and endure searing temperatures and violent thunderstorms in many areas when they commemorate the nation’s 248th Independence Day on Thursday. Heat and storms aside, they will, nevertheless, celebrate. From Boston’s Harborfest to San Diego’s Big Bay Boom, from Seattle’s Seafair to Miami’s Celebration […]

The Biden administration, on June 28, submitted a $4 billion emergency funding request to Congress, which includes $3.1 billion for a federal highway disaster relief program to fully pay for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and more than $725 million to boost federal disaster responses to the 2023 Maui wildfire and tornado recoveries in […]

Nurse practitioner and Air Force National Guard officer Sheri Biggs has edged evangelical minister and televangelist Mark Burns in their June 25 runoff election in South Carolina’s Congressional District 3 (CD 3). Ms. Biggs had garnered 51.1 percent of the tally, 27,649 votes, to Mr. Burns’ 48.9 percent, 26,474 votes when the race was called […]