Politics

Some California lawmakers want to eventually ban all tobacco sales in the nation’s most populous state, filing legislation to make it illegal to sell cigarettes and other products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007.…

Georgia state senators advanced a bill that would ban some transgender procedures and surgeries for anyone younger than 18-years-old. The Georgia Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed Senate Bill 140 by a 10-4 vote…

A former Biden White House official says that a new asylum rule announced by the administration normalizes white nationalist beliefs about migrants — part of a wave of left-wing criticism hitting the administration over the…

U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price on Wednesday warned there would be ‘consequences’ if China were to provide lethal aid to Russia in its war against Ukraine, but when pressed on just what those consequences…

A West Virginia legislative panel on Wednesday advanced a bill that would let the state establish ‘baby box’ safe surrender locations. The House Judiciary Committee forwarded the bill to the full House of Delegates. West…

New York officials gave final approval Wednesday for a measure that will lower the hourly threshold for when farm workers qualify for overtime pay. Under the adopted measure, the overtime pay threshold will gradually be…

The Department of Defense has released of a photo of the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down earlier this month off the coast of South Carolina after it had traversed the country.  The photo,…

National groups on both sides of the abortion fight on Wednesday pledged significant spending in the race for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, tossing the perennial battleground state into the spotlight of…

Indiana voters would have to submit more identification information to obtain mail-in election ballots under a bill Republicans are advancing through the state Legislature. The Indiana House voted 64-27 along party lines Wednesday in favor…

Legislation considered Wednesday in a Missouri state Senate committee would bolster the state’s abortion ban. Republican Sen. Mike Moon’s measure would add a line to the Missouri Constitution that says: ‘Nothing in this Constitution shall…