Oaklanders call on Barbara Lee to be the city’s next mayor
Oakland has been in political chaos since November's recall of former Mayor Sheng Thao, who was only on the job for two years ...
Tri-Cities lawmaker promoted in key energy committee in WA Legislature
A Tri-Cities lawmaker and leading critic of the governor’s authority to overturn clean energy siting applications has been promoted to ranking member on the Washington Legislature’s Senate Environment ...
Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. Panama's president balks at the suggestion
Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal that the United ...
Morning Report — Funding fight foretells fraught GOP future
S ISSUE Funding fight foretells fraught GOP future Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown over the weekend, but the ...
Biden gives life in prison to most federal death row inmates in final month of presidency
Speculation that Biden could commute federal death sentences intensified last week after the White House announced he plans ...
4 things to know in Washington headed into the holiday week
Biden death row commutations President Joe Biden announced Monday he would commute nearly all federal death row sentences, ...
Many Americans have come to rely on Chinese-made drones. Now lawmakers want to ban them
In Florida, law enforcement officers last year complained to the state senate that a ban on state-funded agencies operating ...
House Ethics report finds evidence Matt Gaetz paid thousands for sex and drugs including paying a 17-year-old for sex in 2017
The House Ethics Committee found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex or ...