Politics

FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on Wednesday ripped Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear after the state’s attorney general determined that Beshear improperly rejected a request for records concerning school closures during the COVID pandemic, and said…

U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that the fight against climate change will only succeed if people around the world take on a wartime footing and…

Former President Donald Trump only kept folders marked ‘classified’ as a ‘cool keepsake’ from his time as president, he claimed Wednesday. Trump made the claim on his Truth Social account, arguing that he ‘did nothing…

Oklahoma’s current schedule of executing a death row inmate roughly every 30 days is placing too much of a burden on prison staff and should be slowed down, the state’s new attorney general wrote in…

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen joined several state lawmakers Wednesday to unveil a tax proposal that would remove hundreds of millions of dollars from the state’s tax rolls, including measures that would slash income and corporate…

As Louisiana continues to be plagued by insurance woes, with insurers leaving or going out of business in the hurricane-stricken state, some lawmakers say a special legislative session to address the crisis is imminent. Discussions…

Maryland’s Gov.-elect Wes Moore announced additional Cabinet appointments on Tuesday, a day before he’s scheduled to be sworn in as governor. Salisbury Mayor Jake Day will be the housing and community development secretary, the incoming…

Books containing ‘sexually explicit’ content — including depictions of sexual or gender identity — would be banned from North Dakota public libraries under legislation that state lawmakers began considering Tuesday. The GOP-dominated state House Judiciary…

Wisconsin Democratic state senators on Wednesday joined calls for the Republican leader of the state Senate to remove his appointee to the state’s bipartisan election commission over comments he made about minority turnout in Milwaukee.…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing a competitive re-election bid ahead of Thursday’s debate with a large field of opposing candidates expected to challenge what many view as a disappointing performance related to the COVID-19…