Trump notably failed to push back on Xi Jinping’s rhetoric over the future of Taiwan – key US politics stories from Friday, 15 May at a glance Donald Trump returned … Read More
Order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition The supreme court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that … Read More
The state’s governor commuted Peters’ sentence after a White House pressure campaign against Colorado Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk, had her prison sentence commuted on Friday by Colorado’s governor, … Read More
Trump administration accused of cutting military’s civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls school in Iran The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required … Read More
With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and … Read More
Former election clerk who allowed unauthorized access to voting systems was convicted and sentenced to nine years The Colorado governor, Jared Polis, commuted the nearly nine-year prison sentence of a … Read More
Officials of Social Circle, population 5,000, file lawsuit over plan to turn warehouse into 10,000-capacity facility Officials in the small Georgia town of Social Circle have filed a lawsuit against … Read More
Prosecutors have described fatal shooting outside of DC’s Capital Jewish Museum last year as calculated and planned The US justice department will seek the death penalty for the man accused … Read More
Leon Botstein announced his retirement on the day the results of the inquiry into his connections with Epstein were released Bard College’s board of trustees “voted to end” the 51-year … Read More
New map reshapes representative Steve Cohen’s majority-Black Memphis district and gives Republicans an advantage Democratic representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee on Friday announced that he is ending his bid for … Read More
