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WASHINGTON — Before last month’s recess, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Crescent Springs, pledged to vote for someone other than Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., for House speaker. House…

The prospects of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government will likely hinge on a small opposition party that in an electoral breakthrough won 28 seats in the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It’s a new year and a new General Assembly will soon begin at the Ohio Statehouse. Although this is an off year when…

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Thursday that she will join the Senate Appropriations Committee in the next Congress, which is scheduled to meet Friday. The upper…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – An odd year usually means an election hiatus. But not in Virginia. Virginia and New Jersey are the only states electing a…

Last July, an unusual letter arrived at Kathryn Kundmueller’s mobile home in central Oregon. It invited her to enter a lottery that would select thirty Deschutes…

GuardianPolitics Weekly UK Culture List 2024The Guardian’s John Harris gives his top book, music and TV recommendations of 2024..14 hours ago

President Mike Johnson will face a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. That is, if he can keep…

PA MediaPay dispute led to industrial action by healthcare workersPeople, wages, politics and a pinch of positivity best sum up Northern Ireland’s health and social care…

Assistant professor of sociology Stephanie Dhuman recently published an article on respectability politics among Puerto Ricans in the journal Ethnic and racial studies. ““I’m not a…