Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said on Friday that he had authorized a review of the emergency response to the devastating fires that decimated the town of Lahaina, even as he said that unusually powerful winds and fast-moving flames had complicated the effort. Pressed in an interview on CNN about the lack of audible sirens…
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said on Friday that he had authorized a review of the emergency response to the devastating fires that decimated the town of Lahaina, even as he said that unusually powerful winds and fast-moving flames had complicated the effort. Pressed in an interview on CNN about the lack of audible sirens…
Hours after filing federal paperwork declaring that he was running for president — and shortly before his plan for a Twitter livestream to launch his campaign went haywire — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a Florida elections bill that cleared a potential hurdle. Florida’s so-called resign-to-run statute could have compelled Mr. DeSantis to resign after he…
Mr. Cameron, a former aide to Mr. McConnell, was expected to cruise to the nomination on the back of his ties to the powerful Senate minority leader and to Mr. Trump. But the race tightened after Ms. Craft, who is married to a coal billionaire, Joe Craft, began pouring millions of her own money into…
HELENA, Mont. — The Republican governor of Montana, Greg Gianforte, signed a bill into law on Friday to restrict transition care for transgender minors, joining about a dozen states that have adopted similar laws since the beginning of the year. The bill, which prohibits transitional hormone treatments and surgeries for transgender people under 18, led…
In explaining his decision not to issue a life sentence, Judge Jonker said Mr. Fox did not seem to be a natural leader, that his tactical skills were limited and that the plot had little chance of success because law enforcement had infiltrated the group. Ms. Whitmer, who was elected to a second term last…
The Libertarian candidate, Shane Hazel, was disqualified from the debate for not meeting the required 10 percent polling threshold.
Other Republicans echoed the complaints voiced during public testimony by anti-abortion residents, advocacy groups and religious leaders. They questioned how lawmakers who portrayed themselves to voters as staunch abortion opponents were now forgoing an opportunity to pass a ban without exceptions for rape and incest. Some abortion opponents have argued that rape and incest, while…
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Tudor Dixon, a former conservative media personality and now the Republican nominee for governor in Michigan, paused during a radio interview the morning after she won a crowded, chaotic primary. She wanted to acknowledge one factor that helped catapult her to victory: a late-breaking endorsement from former President Donald J. Trump.…
Republican voters in Maryland on Tuesday nominated for governor Dan Cox, a state legislator who was endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump and who wrote on Twitter during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that Vice President Mike Pence was a “traitor.” The Associated Press called the race late Tuesday. Mr. Cox…