The unexpected, under-the-radar Senate race in Michigan that could determine control of the chamber LANSING, Mich. -- Elissa Slotkin had less than half an hour to reckon with a retirement announcement that would reshape Michigan’s political landscape. The state's senior senator and the third-ranking ... 05/2/2024 - 5:23 pm | View Link
Senate Climate Hearing Puts Politics Above America’s Energy Security A Senate Committee hearing sought to expose oil and gas companies for supposedly deceiving the public about climate change but fell massively short of that objective. 05/2/2024 - 1:43 am | View Link
Tester’s race-leading fundraising haul Tester’s campaign reported raising $7,268,385 in the first three months of 2024, bringing his total haul for the election cycle to $31,105,696. His campaign also continues to spend less than it’s ... 04/19/2024 - 4:25 am | View Link
Sweeping gun control bills awaiting final passage as Maine legislative session nears its end The Senate was awaiting an enactment vote on the governor’s gun safety proposals that would strengthen the state’s yellow flag law, boost background checks for private sales of guns and make ... 04/17/2024 - 11:33 am | View Link
'Exit Wounds' finds the majority of gun violence in Mexico is committed with guns from the U.S. It was January 5, 2016, and Alex and Jackson were in Nogales to oversee another seizure for a different case they were working on when earlier that afternoon they got a tip from a gun store up in ... 04/14/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Why did SD Governor Kristi Noem decide to publish her story about killing her allegedly 'untrainable' dog? Her state's Senate Minority Leader offers three theories: Inoculation from others telling it; lifting her national profile - and distraction from her governing record.
Without cameras on Hope Hicks' testimony, media outlets were left with only a transcript to analyze why she broke down in tears. "It's a mistake to say Hope Hicks cried because she knew she just ended Donald Trump's career," says Elie Honig, "or she cried because she had just collapsed on cross-examine.
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.