Tag Archives: Politics

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Every day since a wildfire began menacing the city of Fort McMurray, Alta., grimy, exhausted firefighters have been spilling out of helicopters at the end of another one of the ...

HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) - Latinos seeking jobs and affordable housing have transformed Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in recent decades, but a federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to their l...

DALLAS (AP) - The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting Friday in downtown Dallas, gathering for the first time in decades without Wayne LaPierre at the helm as board members pr...

ATLANTA (AP) - Amy Kremer stood near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, and told thousands of Donald Trump's supporters that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. "Hello, deplorables," she said...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The man who broke into the home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seeking to hold her hostage and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison....

Marta Moehring voted the way she prefers in Nebraska's Republican primary Tuesday - in person, at her west Omaha polling place. She didn't even consider taking advantage of the state's no-excuse mail-...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Former President Donald Trump used a day off from his hush money trial Friday to headline a Republican fundraiser in Minnesota, a traditionally Democratic state that he boasts h...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - As California faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, lawmakers must make tough decisions about which of the more than 1,000 measures still alive in the Legislature this ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday discussed whether classified documents might play a role in the planned trial of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, who is facing federal br...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A measure to repeal a now-defunct law passed last year that would use public money to fund private school tuition has been pulled from Nebraska's November ballot, the secretary of s...