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As the nation experienced a blue wave in congressional midterm elections across the country, Democrats in Idaho could pick up a handful of seats in the state Legislature. Based on unofficial, incomplete election results early Wednesday, the potential gains position Democrats to boost their 15-member presence in the…
Idaho voters rejected Proposition 1, the ballot initiative that sought to legalize abortion in the state up to fetal viability or in emergencies, and would have enumerated rights to other types of reproductive healthcare. The Associated Press called the race at 12:35 a.m. Wednesday. The voter-led ballot initiative…
WASHINGTON — Democrats will regain control of the U.S. House early next year, after voters throughout the country rejected the policies that Republicans and President Donald Trump implemented during the last two years. The Associated Press, which States Newsroom looks to for the projected winner of congressional…
Incumbent Republican Idaho U.S. Sen. Jim Risch won reelection Tuesday. The Associated Press called the race for Risch at 11:31 p.m. Risch had 56.75%, or 368,072 ballots cast in his favor, as of 2:50 a.m. Wednesday. The AP called the elections for Idaho’s Congressional District 1 at 9:43 p.m. Tuesday for incumbent U.S…
Idaho voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Idaho Constitution that would have taken away Idahoans’ rights to legalize marijuana or other drugs, according to the Associated Press. The Associated Press called the race at 10:39 p.m. Mountain time Tuesday. House Joint Resolution 4, or HJR4, would have made it so…
Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little was reelected in Tuesday’s general election and will serve a third term as the Gem State’s governor, according to the Associated Press. All other Republican candidates for statewide office were also reelected. The Associated Press called the race for Little at 10:36 p.m. Tuesday…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
Idaho voters widely approved amending the Idaho Constitution to declare English as the state’s official language. The Associated Press declared at 10:32 p.m. Wednesday that the amendment, which was proposed by the Idaho Legislature last year, passed. The amendment received support from 58.86% of Idaho voters, with…
Georgia voters elected the nation’s first Black woman governor on Tuesday while neighbors to the south in Florida became the first to elect a Black Republican governor. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia’s top office in more than two decades. In Florida, Republican…
WASHINGTON — In a stunning upset, Democrats ousted Republicans and flipped control of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, effectively establishing a barricade for President Donald Trump’s agenda for the last two years of his term. Democrats will now have the power to block many of Trump’s nominees, both executive and…
1:55 a.m. Mountain time: Longtime Idaho Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson is reelected to a 15th, two-year term representing Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House. The Associated Press called the race for him at 1:49 a.m. Wednesday. Early, unofficial election results showed that Simpson had 51% of the…
Here’s what you need to know this Election Day in Idaho. Even though the president isn’t on the ballot this year, it’s still a big election year for the state. All statewide offices — such as the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state superintendent, state controller and state treasurer — are up for…
Idahoans are encouraged to participate in a two-day event this week that honors the environmental and political legacy of Cecil Andrus, Idaho’s longest-serving governor. The Andrus for Idaho: History Harvest event, hosted by the Boise State University Andrus Center, includes several panel discussions and presentations…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, mere hours before Election Day in the midterms that will determine control of Congress, denied the Trump administration’s final attempt to force California to set aside the ballots of 20,000 people it suspects are noncitizens. The decision marked a significant blow to President Donald…
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in a last-ditch appeal by the Trump administration to exert control over the state’s vote counting. The request came on the eve of Election Day and as more than 5 million…
Experienced conservationist and policy leader Courtney Washburn has been named the new executive director of the Idaho Conservation League, the league and its board of directors announced last month. Washburn succeeds previous Executive Director Justin Hayes, who announced last year he was taking a new position at the…
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon have struck a deal over Clean Water Act enforcement in America’s first national park. But what led up to the deal unfolded largely out of public view. A new era of “concurrent jurisdiction” where Wyoming takes the lead in Yellowstone National Park was…
Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston grants a partial victory to the 25…
Idaho has periodically faced serious threats to its water sovereignty from an overreaching federal government. In the early 1950s, when Len Jordan was Idaho governor, the feds wanted to build a massive dam on the Snake River in Hells Canyon. That would have usurped Idaho control of its upstream waters. Jordan stopped…
This story was first published by Boise State Public Radio on Oct. 30, 2026. A Canyon County judge has rejected a request by anti-Proposition 1 campaigners to halt TV ads from airing that promote the ballot measure days before the election. In an opinion released late Friday night, Judge Davis VanderVelde found the…
Update: This story was updated at 5:10 p.m. on Oct. 30 with a comment from the plaintiff, Dr. Stacy Seyb. A federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday that Idaho’s abortion ban may continue to be fully enforced, including against a Boise doctor who challenged the ban’s lack of health exemption. A U.S. Court of Appeals
Independent candidate for U.S. Senate Todd Achilles has collected more than $1.8 in his campaign against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Risch — the most of any federal election challenger in recent years. Risch’s campaign has collected a total of around $4.1 million since the beginning of 2025, according to the…
Seven western states, including Oregon, have lost more than one-third of their glacial cover since 1950 and more than 300 glaciers in those states have disappeared entirely as the earth has rapidly warmed, a first-of-its-kind inventory and analysis confirms. Researchers at Portland State University and the U.S…
Bird flu is hitting Washington dairy farms, and it’s spreading fast. The Washington State Department of Agriculture confirmed the first detections in two Yakima County dairy herds in early October. On Oct. 26, the agency reported the highly pathogenic avian influenza in Benton County. In the span of three weeks, 27…
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted early, according to the UF Election Lab…
Idaho County commissioners are asking the state’s governor and other elected officials to change public land classifications within their county, Commissioner Skip Brandt told state legislators Thursday. Brandt detailed his proposal during the Idaho Legislature’s Committee on Federalism’s meeting Thursday, which took…
In the weeks leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, the Trump administration announced it is prosecuting three alleged noncitizen voting cases in Idaho. The cases appear to be the first instances of the federal government prosecuting noncitizen voting cases in Idaho under the second Trump administration. They came…
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving, according to a report released this week by
Throughout history there has been one thing all Idahoans agreed on — water is the lifeblood of Idaho. Water has made our southern Idaho sagebrush country bloom with farms and ranches, and water has been crucial for the protection of our wildlife and our outdoor way of life. Protecting Idaho’s water rights from outside…
It took two years for Chrissy Teigen to realize she’d had an abortion and not a miscarriage, longer to understand what went wrong in her pregnancy, and not until this week to realize she hadn’t fully grappled with it emotionally. Teigen, a former model and business owner, came to Idaho on Wednesday to make a
New felony charges against Kalshi and a new federal lawsuit against Utah joined the litigation maze between the prediction market platform and the state this week. Kalshi and its co-founders, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, are now facing 12 online gambling promotion felony charges, one count of pattern of…
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Department of Justice request that would have forced California to not count the ballots of 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens. The decision sets the case on a course to possibly reach the U.S. Supreme Court within days. In a scathing…
Across Idaho, in-person early voting ends at 5 p.m. local time Friday. Check with your local county clerk’s office for a list of early voting locations near you. Ada County, Idaho’s largest, has more than a half dozen spots. If you miss early voting, the last chance to vote in Idaho’s general election will be
The Trump administration is sending election monitors to Idaho’s largest county on Election Day next week, the state’s top election official confirmed Wednesday. The decision comes as the Justice Department plans to deploy 1,000 election monitors — who the DOJ says are meant to assess local compliance with federal…
The Idaho Supreme Court ruled in a 3-2 decision Wednesday that a legal challenge to Idaho’s new state public defense system may be dismissed. The ruling upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the case. The majority’s decision found there wasn’t enough evidence to demonstrate the statewide system, which began operations…
MERIDIAN, Idaho — It didn’t take long for doctors to see that something was amiss with Rebecca Crozier’s pregnancy. At her eight-week ultrasound in 2025, they mentioned a possible neural tube defect, she said, but after some research, she thought it was something that could be managed or treated. “If it was a fixable…
Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks. President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats…
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority. Democrats and voting rights advocates have…
Correction: This story was corrected at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 28 to reflect that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announcement Wednesday reflected that Idaho had spent its entire $186 million first-year grant and did not announce second-year funding. The agency has not yet decided on second-year grant amounts…
The federal government has filed a lawsuit against the state of Idaho, seeking to block the state from curtailing water use at Idaho National Laboratory and from administering federal water rights, court records indicate. On Sept. 11, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against the state, the Idaho Department of Water…
How competitive is the race to represent Idaho in the U.S. Senate? It depends which poll you look at. According to a poll released last week by the campaign for Todd Achilles, an independent running for U.S. Senate, Republican incumbent Jim Risch has only a six-point lead over Achilles. Eight percent of voters were…
In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report. Most state laws that prohibit or regulate abortion seek to penalize those who provide…
Idaho health officials on Tuesday reported the state’s second flu death in the 2026-27 influenza season. The death was of a resident of Elmore County, a rural area outside Boise, who was in their 80s, the regional health agency, Central District Health, announced. The first death, reported last week, was of an Owyhee…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already made their way to the ballot box as early voting is underway in a midterm election that will determine control of the House and the Senate, possibly flipping one or both from Republicans to Democrats. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 34 million people have…
Nine months after immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis, Pretti’s parents are publicly calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release information and evidence related to Pretti’s killing. “We are here today begging for the Department of Justice to do what is right — to hold the men who…
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send election monitors to every state ahead of Election Day, expanding a long-standing practice that’s spurred concern this year among Democrats and voting rights advocates because of President Donald Trump’s push to influence elections. The Justice Department for decades has…
Americans’ growing frustration over high prices has defined many political campaigns ahead of November’s midterm elections. Rising costs of healthcare, gas and groceries during President Donald Trump’s second term have put Republicans on defense, not only in Washington, but in statehouse and gubernatorial races across…
SPRINGDALE, Pa. — Residents in a small southwestern Pennsylvania town are facing the prospect of a 47-acre data center facility on their doorstep. “Right here behind this fence is where they want to put up the data center, and as you can see, there’s houses right across the street, roughly 100 feet,” said lifelong…
Opponents of the proposed abortion rights initiative Proposition 1 filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to pull TV ads paid for by the Idaho Democratic Party in favor of the initiative. The conservative, Christian advocacy organization, the Idaho Family Policy Center, and leaders with a political action committee that…
Chrissy Teigen will be in Boise on Wednesday to campaign in favor of Proposition 1, which would repeal Idaho’s strict abortion ban laws and provide protections for the procedure. Proposition 1, also called the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, also provides protections for access to birth control, in vitro…
President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour campaign to intervene in California’s vote counting encountered its first resistance from federal courts on Monday, with appellate judges ruling against the effort. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against a U.S. Department of Justice request for a…
This story was 0riginally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Oct. 21, 2026. The next time you come across an op-ed by an Idaho politician, think twice about the source. It may not be human. Op-eds and other online posts from some of Idaho’s most powerful elected officials contain heavy doses of artificial intelligence…
The percentage of working-age adults without health insurance has increased in the past two years, largely because many people can no longer afford Obamacare coverage after Congress allowed federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. The uninsured rate for adults ages 19-64 rose to 11.2% this year, up from…
This year’s statewide ballot measures are written, on average, at a graduate-school reading level, according to a new report. The readability of 2026’s ballot questions — which ask voters to weigh in on issues as varied as abortion, property taxes, voter ID and firearms — varies by state, political data tracking…
It’s unclear what role federal election monitors will play or how many there will be in King County on Election Day. The U.S. Department of Justice informed King County Elections Director Julie Wise this week that the administration is sending election monitors for the Nov. 3 midterms. “As the Civil Rights Division…
Idaho lawmakers will weigh whether to fund several drug-prevention and treatment projects, totaling over $3 million, through the state’s endowment fund from tobacco lawsuit settlement money. The legislative Joint Millennium Fund Committee, which oversees the endowment, heard 10 proposals Friday for use of the…
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare said an Owyhee County man has died after influenza-related illness — the first flu death of the season in the state. The man was older than 65, but an exact age was not given in a press release issued by the department. Public health officials said in the
The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping up its legal campaign over the midterm elections, suing Alaska over its U.S. Senate election and appealing a lawsuit against suspected noncitizen voters in California. Election law experts have cast doubt on the strength of the cases, criticizing them as performative. The…
Federal regulators are cracking down on the nonprofits responsible for coordinating organ donations, aiming to begin shutting down substandard groups by early next year. New criteria will score the organizations on donation and transplantation rates and will decertify the bottom tier, meaning their contracts with the…
The Oklahoma-based company that owns one of the largest gas pipeline networks in the Northwest is beginning to pursue permits to expand that network, and to pump more gas to the region to meet rising electricity demand. Pipeline company Williams, owner of the 4,000-mile long Northwest Pipeline system that brings…
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American…
The U.S. Department of Justice is sending election monitors to Utah polls to oversee the Nov. 3 elections, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson learned on Wednesday. The move comes amid pressure from the agency as Henderson, Utah’s chief election officer, refuses to release private voter data to the federal government. The…
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal attorney and accountant in federal court, alleging that the two helped to facilitate and conceal his sex trafficking operation. The lawsuit against Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the…
WASHINGTON — The price health insurance companies charge for employer-sponsored plans increased again this year, as did the deductible many people must pay before those plans begin covering most healthcare costs, according to a survey released Thursday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. The cost of individual…
A federal judge on Wednesday night blocked the Department of Homeland Security from conducting election-related field operations that could sweep up U.S. citizens in nine states. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, an appointee of President Joe Biden in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, issued a…
The director of Idaho’s largest state agency will step down by the end of the year. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Juliet Charron told employees in a letter she’d be stepping back to provide more support to her family, Boise State Public Radio first reported. Gov. Brad Little’s communication director…
During the 2026 election cycle, Idaho voters have had very few opportunities to see Republican incumbents answer questions at live, public events. For years it was the norm for major candidates in statewide and federal races to appear live and debate each other. “It was a tradition in Idaho,” said Betsy Russell…
HYANNIS, Neb. — With 19 days until Election Day, Dan Osborn sat across from three skeptical voters in a conference room in this blink-and-you-miss-it rural Nebraska town. Osborn, a bearded former union leader and Navy veteran, wants to become the first independent U.S. senator from Nebraska since World War II by…
Single-family home completions remain stuck at early pandemic levels as of September as costs, labor supply shortages and high interest take a toll on home builders, especially in the Northeast and South. Apartment building was a more mixed picture, down nationally but up sharply in the Midwest (53%) and West (18%)…
JEROME – More than $5 million worth restoration projects and forthcoming interpretive exhibits are being designed to preserve the history and lessons from southern Idaho’s Minidoka National Historic Site. On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, joined National Park Service personnel, local elected officials and…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to implement a rule that would terminate gender-affirming care for transgender people incarcerated in federal prisons. It means a lower court order that blocked the policy from going into effect will remain in place for…
Correction: This story was corrected at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday to reflect that Philip Morris USA and PMI companies are separately owned. Republican Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and Gov. Brad Little’s re-election campaigns received more than $20,000 each in donations from tobacco and nicotine manufacturers. In…
The deadline for Idaho voters to request an absentee ballot for this year’s general election is 5 p.m. local time on Friday, Oct. 23. Friday, Oct. 23 is also the deadline to register to vote in advance of the Nov. 3 general election. However, if eligible voters miss the Oct. 23 deadline to register to
In July, the U.S. Department of Energy named Idaho as a finalist to host one of three Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. As former legal counsel for Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and administrator of the Idaho Governor’s Office of Species, Minerals, and Energy Coordination, I’ve spent years working on nuclear policy. I…
High costs and lengthy permitting processes are two of the barriers to bringing nuclear-powered electricity to customers in Idaho, officials from three electrical utilities told state regulators during a public forum outside of Boise on Tuesday. Officials from Idaho Power, Rocky Mountain Power and Avista told members…
Utah Attorney General Derek Brown filed a lawsuit against the major prediction market platform Kalshi on Tuesday, seeking to block the company from taking bets from Utahns. “Utah has said no to gambling since statehood in 1896, and that didn’t change when betting moved onto cellphones,” Brown said during a news…
Under pressure from Gov. Bob Ferguson, the Washington state Building Code Council is wrestling with how far it can bend residential energy codes to speed up rebuilding homes destroyed by wildfires this summer. Ferguson issued an emergency proclamation in August directing the council to identify state laws, rules or…
Farmers will be eligible to receive one-time payments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide relief for high fuel and input costs. USDA and President Donald Trump announced Monday night at a rally in Kansas that farmers would have $8 billion made available in the Harvest Fuel Relief program. Farm groups…
Arco, also known as “The Atomic City,” will serve as Idaho’s “Capital for a Day” on Thursday. Gov. Brad Little and other top state officials will travel to Arco for events taking place 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Lost Rivers Community and Senior Center, located at 555 S. Water St. in
Kackley Ranch Preserve is a 920-acre piece of land that has been set aside for permanent preservation in rural southeast Idaho. It is also a working ranch, and it will remain that way for future generations to enjoy. At an educational media event on Oct. 8, leaders from the Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust and its…
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality awarded a $1.4 million low-interest drinking water service line loan to the eastern Idaho city of Island Park, department officials announced Monday. City officials in Island Park will use the funding to inventory and replace lead service lines in the drinking water…
After President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday lifting new stiff sanctions on Russia, one of Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers issued a glowing statement praising the president. “The suspension of some provisions of the Graham Act marks an important and historic moment,” Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s…
Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century. The Cook Political Report with Amy…
WASHINGTON — Immigrants living in the United States with humanitarian status from Ukraine and Sudan will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, the Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend. More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese with Temporary Protected…
An Idaho legislator has been tapped as the state’s next U.S. attorney for the District of Idaho after former U.S. Attorney Bart Davis announced his retirement earlier this month. U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche appointed Rep. John Shirts, R-Weiser, as U.S. attorney for the District of Idaho, effective Sunday…
In the race for Idaho’s top election official, two familiar names are headed to the ballot. Democratic challenger Shawn Keenan is again challenging Republican incumbent Secretary of State Phil McGrane, who widely defeated Keenan in the 2022 election. Keenan, a mortgage broker and loan officer who lives in Coeur…
The Friends of Minidoka nonprofit will host its 2026 symposium, which will feature a film screening, legal discussion and lecture, “to consider the enduring importance of due process, equal protection, and civic engagement in protecting our civil liberties and strengthening democracy,” according to a press release…
Party control is up for grabs in 15 state legislative chambers across the country as Republicans are increasingly on the defensive this midterm election cycle, a new analysis found. The nonpartisan newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics released its final analysis of state…
Idaho’s newly approved Opportunity Zones could help bring more housing, businesses and jobs to communities across the state. The attraction for investors is the potential tax savings. This month, Idaho Commerce announced that the U.S. Treasury approved 25 zones, including areas in Boise, Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls…
The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad expansion of the late 1800s, when titans battled one another to lay the…
Early voting, which begins Monday in many of Idaho’s 44 counties, was a focus of Boise’s fourth No Kings protest on Saturday. Idaho’s capital joined similar demonstrations nationwide. Speakers urged Idahoans to vote, volunteer with campaigns, and speak to friends and neighbors about candidates and ballot issues that…
WASHINGTON — More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not indicated if he will renew protections for Ukrainians, who first received Temporary Protected…
Legal challenges first filed against President Donald Trump’s cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments almost a decade ago can move forward after he downsized them once again and more sharply this summer, a federal judge ruled this week in Washington, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya…
Idaho’s newly refurbished replica of the Liberty Bell will be rededicated Nov. 23 during ceremonies at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise, Idaho State Historical Society Executive Director Janet Gallimore said Thursday. In January, the bell was sent to the Bell Foundry Christoph in Charleston, S.C. for cleaning and…
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Boise State University senior Cade Syvock opposes abortion. As president of the school’s chapter of the conservative group Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late activist Charlie Kirk…
Democratic candidate for Idaho attorney general Lori Hickman says she has a long track record of being a straightforward attorney who is running to keep politicization out of the office — something she says her opponent hasn’t done. But Raúl Labrador, the Republican incumbent running for a second term, says he…
One of the political consultants who the New York Times recently reported received hundreds of thousands of dollars to advise the Russia-aligned government of Republika Srpska was previously named a senior adviser to Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s campaign in February. On Oct. 6, the New York Times reported Chris LaCivita…
When people talk about abortion, they often imagine a choice. A political issue. A debate. What they rarely imagine is a married couple preparing a nursery, a little girl excited to become a big sister, and parents eagerly waiting to welcome a wanted baby. That was our family. We were excited to grow our family.
WASHINGTON —Suddenly there’s hope for cutting the reams of red tape that can make getting new energy projects a seemingly endless slog. Top Republican and Democratic senators have unveiled a 417-page bill to overhaul the approval process, a pathway for what’s known as “permitting reform.” A debate is likely when…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday announced that the execution of a man convicted of the Fort Hood shooting will not be livestreamed, a reversal after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that Nidal Hasan’s death by firing squad would be public. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might…