(Associated Press) Utah Republicans booed Sen. Mitt Romney but ultimately rejected a motion to censure him Saturday for his votes at President Donald Trump's impeachment trials.
The measure narrowly failed, 798 to 711, in a vote by delegates to the state GOP convention, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Romney drew heavy...
(Headline USA) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sued the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday in an effort to see fireworks shot over Mount Rushmore National Monument on Independence Day.
The Republican governor successfully pushed last year for a return of the pyrotechnic display after a decade-long hiatus.
The event drew national...
(Headline USA) Adam Kinzinger came to Texas this week to hunt unicorns.
The Illinois congressman was looking for Republicans who, like him, see former President Donald Trump as a scourge on their party and a threat to democracy.
Kinzinger met privately with one sympathetic Republican, former President George W. Bush, on his...
(Associated Press) When U.S. Catholic bishops hold their next national meeting in June, they’ll be deciding whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians: Don’t receive Communion if you persist in public advocacy of abortion rights.
At issue is a document that will be prepared...
(Headline USA) A top Senate Democrat is urging U.S. anti-pollution standards that would follow a deal brokered by California with five automakers and then set targets to end sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, a goal that reaches farther than President Joe Biden’s climate plan.
In a letter sent late...
(Headline USA) Rudy Giuliani sought to discredit the federal investigation into his dealings in Ukraine on Thursday, a day after agents raided his home and office.
Giuliani said the 6 a.m. search, which he said involved seven FBI agents, was unnecessary because he offered for two years to provide federal prosecutors...
(Headline USA) Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that requires businesses or government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multi-person bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms associated with their gender identity.
The Human Rights Campaign, which opposes the proposed requirement, says it...
(Headline USA) In his first public address since the end of the Trump administration, former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday put down a marker for a potential return to elected office, telling an audience in early-voting South Carolina that he will use the coming months “pushing back on the...
(Headline USA) Desperately longing for a pet cause to divert attention from his own scandals, Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo railed one last time against one of his favorite scapegoats, the Trump administration.
Blaming Trump's "xenophobia" for the massive decline in population that his state suffered in the recent...
(Headline USA) Months after President Joe Biden snubbed Canadian officials by canceling Keystone XL, an impending showdown over a second crude oil pipeline threatens to further strain ties between the two neighbors that were frayed during the Trump administration.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a top Biden ally, ordered Canadian energy company...
(Headline USA) When the coronavirus pandemic hit the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington, their governors quickly reacted with shutdowns.
Now they are about to impose new restrictions again as they claim infections and hospitalizations are rising to alarming levels.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is putting 15 counties that encompass the...
(Headline USA) California could become the only state to let adult children add their parents as dependents to their health insurance plans, a policy proposal aimed at increasing insurance coverage among low-income people living in the country illegally who aren't eligible for government-funded coverage.
Former President Barack Obama's health law let...