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Hawaii Supreme Court justices on Friday appeared perturbed with the State Office of Elections not trying to help a dysfunctional oversight commission meet during an ongoing elections season.

News Honolulu Star-Advertiser · 2 weeks ago

Family Promise of Hawaii has launched a Housing Scholarships program to help families experiencing or at risk of homelessness secure housing and develop the financial stability needed to remain housed long term.

News Honolulu Star-Advertiser · 2 weeks ago

A federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment Thursday charging a former Moanalua High School girls wrestling coach with exploiting and raping a former wrestler and sex trafficking another underage girl.

News Honolulu Star-Advertiser · 2 weeks ago

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $109 million loan to help the Honolulu Board of Water Supply build a large-scale seawater desalination plant that has been decades in the making.

News Honolulu Star-Advertiser · 2 weeks ago

After the U.S. Department of Justice sued California over its refusal to remove voters the federal government alleges are noncitizens, voting rights advocates fear the Trump administration is violating a court order blocking it from rooting out noncitizens with states’ voter…

News Colorado Newsline · 2 weeks ago

WASHINGTON — More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not indicated if he will renew protections for Ukrainians, who…

News Idaho Capital Sun · 2 weeks ago

Even as the Davis Pond diversion demonstrates the land-building potential of Mississippi River sediment, Louisiana has abandoned its most ambitious attempt to put that approach to work.

News Louisiana Illuminator · 2 weeks ago

Today’s health insurance affordability crisis is a rerun of the one Kentucky faced in the 1990s. The cause is the same. The path to relief is the same. And once again, Frankfort can deliver it. In 1994, Frankfort enacted new controls that supporters promised would make health…

News Kentucky Lantern · 2 weeks ago

In the last week, Justice Department and California election officials have been locked in a contentious standoff over alleged election fraud.

News Los Angeles Times Politics · 2 weeks ago

GOP candidates are avoiding talking about Trump in their ads, including in deep-red districts where they used to feature him. Some don’t even want to join him at events.

News Politico · 2 weeks ago

With Democrats campaigning on ending the war, advocates want them to put their money where their mouth is and risk a lame-duck shutdown. The post Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It? appeared first on The Intercept.

News The Intercept · 2 weeks ago

Shaquille O’Neal promised his mom he’d finish college when he left for the NBA in 1992. Now, the basketball legend has a bachelor’s, an MBA, an Ed.D., and a master’s.

News Fortune · 2 weeks ago

Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) reported more direct campaign contributions in the race for governor than Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) for the first time this election cycle, though the incumbent outspent Ford.

News Nevada Independent · 2 weeks ago

The year 2026 has been an expensive one for social media platforms. Since March, YouTube and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have settled or paid out in multiple lawsuits to the tune of more than US$17 billion for allegedly acting negligently, deliberately…

News Kansas Reflector · 2 weeks ago

The newest addition to the Senate map is giving Republicans headaches.

News Politico · 2 weeks ago

The wealthiest companies since the robber baron days — like Microsoft and Amazon — greased the skids for an authoritarian vanity project the public doesn’t want.

News Seattle Times Politics · 2 weeks ago

The trailblazing and long-serving Port commissioner broke a glass ceiling with her first election and supported Seattle's growth as an international hub.

News Seattle Times Politics · 2 weeks ago

An unusual legislative race in the 46th District pits a seasoned lawmaker against a political novice and is testing voters' much-discussed hunger for change.

News Seattle Times Politics · 2 weeks ago

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said late Wednesday that it expects to complete its long-awaited safety review of abortion pills by mid-December and issue a report evaluating the results by March 2027. The agency disclosed the information in a court-mandated status report…

News Florida Phoenix · 2 weeks ago

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House across the Potomac River from Washington D.C., today blasted President Trump’s announcement that he would destroy East Potomac Park to build an expensive new golf course. Beyer recently led a…

Press release Donald S. Beyer, Jr. — press releases · 2 weeks ago

DALTON, Ga. – President Donald Trump returned to conservative northwest Georgia Friday, sharing a rally stage with the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate and the Republican who hopes to serve as Georgia’s next governor – all while repeating unfounded claims that the 2020 election…

News Georgia Recorder · 2 weeks ago

A last-minute order from a federal appeals court on Friday delayed a takeover of the state prison healthcare system. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry was slated to lose control of healthcare operations on Monday. But in a new order, the 9th U.S.…

News Arizona Mirror · 2 weeks ago

Sport hunters will be able to bait bears in Alaska national preserves, under a final rule the Trump administration announced on Friday. The rule, proposed in March, overturns bans by the Biden and Obama administrations of the practice within National Park Service units. Bear…

News Alaska Beacon · 2 weeks ago

Every family in America struggles with the cost of health care, which has been growing at an unsustainable rate. But...

Press release Jason Smith — press releases · 2 weeks ago

COLUMBIA — The Democrats seeking to be South Carolina’s U.S. senator and governor rallied Friday with U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia as part of a days-long push ahead of early voting in an attempt to bring a blue wave to the Palmetto State. Taking the stage behind a sign…

News South Carolina Daily Gazette · 2 weeks ago

The two leading candidates for Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat met in an acrimonious televised debate Thursday night in Anchorage, where Democratic candidate Mary Peltola and Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan accused each other of lying and repeatedly spoke over each other. “OK,…

News Alaska Beacon · 2 weeks ago

The Grand Canyon State announced Friday that it intends to join Nevada’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s most recent plan for the future of the Colorado River. The announcement comes after years of unsuccessful negotiations among the seven states that depend on…

News Utah News Dispatch · 2 weeks ago

The Grand Canyon State announced Friday that it intends to join Nevada’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s most recent plan for the future of the Colorado River. The announcement comes after years of unsuccessful negotiations among the seven states that depend on…

News Arizona Mirror · 2 weeks ago

Legal challenges first filed against President Donald Trump’s cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments almost a decade ago can move forward after he downsized them once again and more sharply this summer, a federal judge ruled this week in Washington,…

News Idaho Capital Sun · 2 weeks ago

Matt Althoff has stepped down as secretary of the South Dakota Department of Social Services, effective immediately, Gov. Larry Rhoden’s office said Friday while also announcing an interim replacement. Althoff has led the department since his appointment by former Gov. Kristi…

News South Dakota Searchlight · 2 weeks ago