California lawmakers vote for $17B deficit reduction plan
California lawmakers voted Thursday in favor of a $17 billion spending cut aimed at the state's fast-growing deficit, currently estimated to be about $73 billion.
Suspect in Bernie Sanders office fire has troubling legal past: prosecutors
Shant Michael Soghomonian, who is suspected of deliberately starting a fire outside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' office, reportedly has a long history of police encounters.
Biden’s bogus college claim is just latest in decades-long pattern of embellishment
President Biden recently said that he was the first person in his family to attend college in what is the latest in a history of bogus or embellished claims over his political career.
Sen Ernst cites Jewish student discrimination in bid to protect free speech on campuses
Sen. Joni Ernst is hoping to create a standard of free speech and expression at public institutions amid Jewish students facing viewpoint discrimination during Israel's war in Gaza.
Liberal justice’s retirement puts Wisconsin Supreme Court majority back on ballot
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, a liberal, announced her retirement Thursday, opening up a seat on the hotly-contested high court's bench.
Florida judge rules school has to temporarily allow transgender teacher to use preferred pronouns
A Florida judge temporarily blocked a pronoun law from being enforced against one nonbinary and two transgender teachers this week.
More than 40 Senate Republicans call for Mayorkas impeachment trial in letter to Schumer
Nearly the entire Senate Republican conference signed a letter to Schumer demanding he allow a full impeachment trial for Mayorkas to play out.