2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (603+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would most likely…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (552+ words) Americans’ satisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the country has hit a low point, driven by a growing political divide and concerns that schools are not preparing children for college and future jobs. At the same time, dissatisfaction…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (304+ words) MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As campaign season ramps up, Alabama gubernatorial nominees Tommy Tuberville and Doug Jones have each released their first television ads. Tuberville and Jones, who are campaigning in a rematch of the 2020 U.S. Senate race that started Tuberville’s political…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1023+ words) Democrats have found themselves competing in states that once seemed beyond their reach as President Donald Trump’s slipping approval ratings and voters’ dissatisfaction with the economy create a difficult political environment for Republicans. But races Democrats once counted on winning…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1024+ words) The East Wing of the White House was still standing and the Kennedy Center wasn’t threatened with demolition. Artificial intelligence data centers weren’t bipartisan shorthand for the tech sector’s excess. Democratic socialists were largely confined to the outer edges of…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (639+ words) Alabama Daily News The more things change, the more they stay the same, is a very succinct adage, especially when it comes to politics. Faces and places and races change in politics, but one thing that stays the same is…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (363+ words) The legal wrangling is happening even as states start sending out mail ballots, leaving the administration little time to make big changes in mail ballot rules. “Ballots have already begun to be mailed in North Carolina, and more States will…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (910+ words) Because diesel is used for many freight and delivery networks, higher diesel prices mean higher transportation costs for a long list of everyday goods. Some businesses have already passed on costs to consumers in the form of added fees on…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (640+ words) Maj. Alex Klinner, 33, was one of six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed in western Iraq in March while supporting operations against Iran. He’s one of 18 U.S. service members killed, along with 790 wounded, since the war began…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (464+ words) A federal judge on Friday extended her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting during the midterms, putting another major obstacle in the way of the administration as the first states…...