When Sen. Kamala Harris said last week that she obviously supports marijuana legalization and has smoked the plant, she cited her ethnicity — “Half my…
Gavin Newsom accuses Donald Trump of ‘political retribution’ in bullet-train money fight
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is engaging in “political retribution” by trying to take back $3.5 billion granted for the state’s high-speed…
Ibraheem Samirah beats Gregg Nelson in Virginia House of Delegates special election
Democrat Ibraheem S. Samirah handily beat Republican Gregg G. Nelson in a special election Tuesday for a Northern Virginia seat in the House of Delegates,…
ACLU, Sierra Club file lawsuit over Trump border wall emergency declaration
Nearly every legal argument has already been made — and now nearly every major player has joined in, after the ACLU and the Sierra Club…
Indiana Senate removes list of biases from hate crimes bill
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Indiana’s state Senate has removed sexual orientation, gender identity, race and a list of other characteristics from a hate crimes bill. The…