Nebraska’s governor says he’ll call lawmakers back to address tax relief Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says he'll keep his promise to call a special legislative session this summer to push lawmakers to find a fix for soaring property taxes. 04/19/2024 - 10:49 am | View Link
Here are some of the bills sponsored by Anne Arundel lawmakers that passed or failed on sine die During this year’s Maryland legislative session lawmakers representing Anne Arundel County sponsored ... The bill is now on the governor’s desk. Another of Bartlett’s bills that passed both chambers ... 04/11/2024 - 6:30 pm | View Link
Proposal to enshrine Permanent Fund dividend in Alaska Constitution fails to clear House Apr. 12—JUNEAU — A proposal to enshrine the Permanent Fund dividend in the Alaska Constitution failed to be approved by the House on Thursday. House Joint Resolution 7 would pay out whatever dividend ... 04/11/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Governor's appointments face 'imminent legal peril' if AG's opinion stands, court filings say A ttorneys for Gov. Kevin Stitt doubled down on the governor’s appointive authority last week, new documents filed in a lawsuit between Stitt and Attorney General Gentner Drummond show. At the same ... 04/10/2024 - 12:06 am | View Link
Students walk out of schools across Alaska to protest the governor's veto of education package Lawmakers could not muster sufficient support to override that veto, either. School funding is expected to remain a closely watched issue the remainder of this session. During the walkout Thursday ... 04/4/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Elliot Page says he experienced a mixture of feelings when he came out as transgender on an Instagram post in 2021.
“I felt utterly elated and beyond grateful to finally be in a place where I could accept and love myself and do what I needed to and wanted to,” the 37-year-old actor, director, and LGBTQ+ activist told the audience at the 2024 TIME100 Summit in New York City on Wednesday.
Dust clouds from the Sahara desert in North Africa have blown across the Mediterranean Sea and turned Greece’s sky orange on Tuesday. Historic landmarks in the country’s capital Athens, including the ancient citadel of Acropolis, were blanketed in orange dust.
One image, taken from the famous Tourkovounia hills that bisect the city of Athens, shows a man in a face mask taking a photo of the Mars-like view of the city.
King Charles III bestowed honors on his family members and nobles, including a new historically significant title for his daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton.
The King appointed the Princess of Wales to be a Royal Companion of The Order of the Companions of Honour on Tuesday, St George’s Day. The order was founded by King George V in 1917 to recognize outstanding achievements and major contributions over a long period of time to the arts, sciences, medicine, and public service.
As India’s marathon election kicked off its first voting phase last Friday, April 19, unemployment was looming large in the minds of millions of voters—despite the country’s rapid economic growth. Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, economists have been quick to serve India on a silver platter as a powerful rival to China, particularly for its global manufacturing, investment, and growth capabilities.
North Korea sent its highest-level delegation to Iran in about five years as the U. S. raised concerns that arms sales from Pyongyang and Tehran have helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In a rare public report of the trip, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence dispatch the North Korean delegation led by External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong Ho left Pyongyang for Tehran on Tuesday.
The International Monetary Fund issued a most unusual rebuttal this month. Its spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters in Washington that executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s growth forecast of 8% for India did not represent the views of the IMF, which still maintained a projection of 6.5% for the country.
Subramanian’s views—expressed at an event in New Delhi a few days earlier—were in his role as India’s representative at the IMF, she said.