ArticleLog­ger tapped for Plat’s Sen. nom

Maine Demo­crats offi­cially tapped former log­ger and one-time state Sen­ate Pres­id­ent Troy Jack­son on Sat­urday to replace accused rap­ist Gra­ham Plat­ner as the party nom­inee in the high-stakes race against incum­bent Repub­lican Sen. Susan...

ArticleDemo­crats pick S.C. for first pres­id­en­tial primary race

WASHINGTON — South Car­o­lina was selec­ted Fri­day to once again lead off the Demo­cratic Party’s 2028 pres­id­en­tial nom­in­at­ing sched­ule, most likely cement­ing a dra­matic break from dec­ades of tra­di­tion by keep­ing Iowa off the top of the...

ArticleSen­ate Repub­lic­ans reject bid to extend Haiti TPS des­pite calls from Miami-Dade lead­ers

ArticleRightwing US influ­en­cer changes course to back Ukraine after wit­ness­ing Kyiv air raid

ArticleKeywords used to end UC grants

Fed­eral agen­cies that ter­min­ated more than 1,000 research grants at the Uni­versity of Cali­for­nia last year admit­ted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vac­cine hes­it­ancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of...

ArticleMcCon­nell faces grow­ing ques­tions about his absence

Sen. Mitch McCon­nell (R., Ky.) is facing grow­ing calls to be more trans­par­ent about his health nearly six weeks after he was hos­pit­al­ized. McCon­nell, 84, has been absent from the Sen­ate since he said he suffered a fall June 14. His office...

ArticleTrump brings Jef­fer­son to the Rose Garden

Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump installed a statue of Thomas Jef­fer­son in the Rose Garden in mid-July, accord­ing to two people who spoke on the con­di­tion of anonym­ity to describe the yet-to-be-announced move — con­tinu­ing Trump’s effort to remake the...

ArticleU.S. Rep. John Rose’s pri­or­it­ies, vot­ing his­tory

been 17 months since U.S. Rep. John Rose stood along­side a 1944 John Deere tractor in a light fall­ing sleet to announce his bid for Ten­nessee gov­ernor at the Wilson County Fair­grounds — the site of the state fair he worked 12 years to save. An...