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The Supreme Court has turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block state court-ordered congressional districting plans more favorable to Democrats.
Sandpoint, Idaho, is a four-season resort town built along the shores of scenic Lake Pend Oreille. Its population surged by 21% in the past decade to about 8,900.
The Utah legislative session is now over. Lawmakers passed their final bills Friday night, but one controversial bill pushed through at the last minute is getting a lot of attention. This bill deals with transgender athletes in state high school sports.
The Utah Legislature worked until the last minutes of its lawmaking session Friday, including sending one bill to Utah's Gov. Spencer Cox that will keep some statements by police away from the public and the media.
HB11, which was revised Friday to ban transgender athletes from participating in high school sports, has passed the Senate during the last day of the 2022 Legislative Session.
The Biden administration is seeking another $10 billion to help protect Ukraine against the Russian invasion and an additional $22.5 billion to cover coronavirus pandemic-related expenses.
Utah lawmakers are pushing a bill that would erase city and county animal ordinances and laws in Utah and prohibit local governments from making new ones.
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The U.N. General Assembly has voted to demand that Russia stop its offensive in Ukraine and withdraw all troops, with nations from world powers to tiny island states condemning Moscow’s actions.
A moment about the death of President Joe Biden's son during the State of the Union address turned into a stunning outburst by one of the Republican’s most outspoken members.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds went after President Joe Biden over rising inflation, foreign policy and the Democratic Party's handling of the pandemic in the Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
In the final week of the 2022 Utah legislative session, housing advocates are criticizing lawmakers for not fully funding bills that seek to address the state’s affordable housing crisis and services for those experiencing homelessness.
Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden has vowed in his first State of the Union address to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.
President Joe Biden is set to deliver his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. The director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah talked about what the president can do to try to unite Americans.
President Joe Biden has announced a new round of sanctions targeting Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, charging that Russia’s Vladimir Putin “chose this war” and his country will bear the consequences.
Vladimir Putin told the world in the lead-up to its attacks on Ukraine that his operation aimed to "denazify" Ukraine. Ukraine has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.
The number of children in America living in poverty jumped dramatically after just one month without the expanded child tax credit payments, according to a new study. Advocates fear the lapse in payments could unravel what they say were landmark achievements in poverty reduction.
