(Headline USA) Trump-backed candidate Blake Masters secured the GOP nod for Senate in Arizona, the Associated Press reported, capping off a strong night for the former president in spite of ambiguity over his Missouri endorsement and an Arizona gubernatorial race for the GOP nomination that remained too close to...
(Headline USA) Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers lost his bid for a state Senate seat after refusing then-President Donald Trump’s pleas to help investigate widespread irregularities---and ultimately to reverse---the 2020 election results.
Bowers later testified before Congress about the efforts, even as an audit led by his own state's...
(Headline USA) In a conservative state with deep ties to the pro-life movement, Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
The heavy turnout for an August primary that typically favors Republicans was touted as...
(Victor Skinner, The Center Square) The North Carolina Green Party is forging ahead with its effort to get its U.S. Senate candidate on the ballot after the State Board of Elections voted to certify the Green Party on Monday, reversing course on a previous vote.
Tony Ndege, co-chair of the...
(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) California's Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a monkeypox state of emergency Monday in response to the rapidly spreading outbreak in the Golden State.
The emergency declaration enables Emergency Medical Services personnel to administer the monkeypox vaccine---a move Newsom’s office says will bolster the state’s vaccination...
(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to amend the state constitution so that it says there's no right to abortions.
The proposed amendment would also give state lawmakers the power to pass abortion-related legislation.
The measure, titled the "Kansas No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative...
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) A Massachusetts man faces up to 20 years in prison for a bomb threat he made to an elected official in the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.
James Clark, a 38-year-old Falmouth resident, has been charged with one count of making a bomb threat, one...
(Joe Mueller, The Center Square) Two Republican candidates vying for the seat of retiring Missouri U.S. Senator Roy Blunt publicly claimed the endorsement of former President Donald Trump on Monday and thanked him for his support.
The candidates: former Gov. Eric Greitens and Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
The endorsement: “I trust...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A new ad campaign launched Monday in California mocking an ad Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom launched July 4 in which he attacked Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and invited Floridians to move to “the free state of California.”
In Newsom’s first reelection campaign ad in...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday sent a letter to New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, inviting them to visit Texas’s southern border to see the humanitarian crisis firsthand.
While Adams and Bowser are concerned about receiving around 100...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Gov. Ron DeSantis last week announced a new plan to protect Floridians from the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement. The plan includes proposed new legislation for the 2023 legislative session as well as administrative action.
The ESG movement “threatens the vitality of the...
(The Center Square) The Department of Homeland Security has begun to close gaps in a border wall in Arizona after President Joe Biden pledged in January 2021 to not build “another foot.”
DHS says it plans to complete the Yuma Morelos Dam Project and close four wide gaps in the...