President Joe Biden intends to nominate Joshua Kolar, a federal magistrate judge for northern Indiana, to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the White House announced Thursday. Kolar, who’s…
Economy
PA Democrats’ push for adult mental health funding fruitless as GOP drops it from budget plan
Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania say they are angry that millions of dollars to expand adult mental health services got cut out of the budget, and are pushing to get it…
Ryan Kelley, a candidate in Michigan’s 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.Kelley defended the riot at…
Trump charged with additional counts in special counsel’s classified records probe
Former President Donald Trump was charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two new obstruction counts as part of a superseding indictment out of…
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump, reacting to the latest charges against him from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, slammed the Justice Department for ‘abuse,’ and said ‘this is what you…
A doctor who led the successful COVID-19 response in the Navajo Nation in Arizona is returning to Maine to serve as director of the state Center for Disease Control and…
Maine will procure at least 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040 under a bill signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, enough to power about half…
Seattle Schools official says parents shouldn’t be notified of pronoun change, ‘regardless of age’: emails
EXCLUSIVE: A top official with Washington state’s biggest school district told a fourth-grade elementary school teacher that a student’s pronoun change should not be shared with the parents, ‘regardless of…
President Biden’s Justice Department is facing heat over developments that transpired during Hunter Biden’s first court appearance on Wednesday. Hunter Biden’s plea deal fell apart, and he pleaded ‘not guilty’ as…
Hawaii Health Department trains future therapists to conceal conversations with LGBT youth from parents
EXCLUSIVE: A presentation offered by employees of the Hawaii Department of Health encourages staff and graduate students at the University of Hawaii Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy not to document…