November 13 By Rebecca Shabad Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, announced Friday that she’s running for re-election next year, setting up a fight with former President Donald Trump, who has endorsed another Republican in the GOP primary. “I’m running for re-election to continue the important work…

November 12 By Lora Bails The United States and Qatar have agreed that Doha will represent the diplomatic interests of the US in Afghanistan, the first official representation for the US in Kabul since its troop withdrawal in August. Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin…

November 12 By Jill Colvin In the past week, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a video showing a character with his face killing a figure with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s face. Several of the 13 House Republicans who backed a bipartisan infrastructure bill said they faced…

November 10 By Andrew Kitchenman The Alaska Redistricting Board spent Monday drawing the district lines for the state Senate. The board, which was required to pair House districts to set the Senate boundaries, chose a Senate map for Anchorage drawn by board member Bethany Marcum….

November 8 By Martha Ross In what may be an official warning from Queen Elizabeth, “senior” Buckingham Palace courtiers have expressed “unease,” saying it’s “outrageous” for Meghan Markle to use her Duchess of Sussex title to lobby U.S. lawmakers on American policy, including Democrats’ efforts…

November 6 By Mary Clare The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that now goes to President Joe Biden to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more. The House passed the bipartisan plan Friday…

November 5 By Peter Marsh President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party’s governing majority in Congress, which has struggled to advance his political agenda, got an ominous warning sign from discontented voters in United States local elections on November 2. In the state of Virginia,…

November 4 By Bill Brown An international organization, more specifically, a union of like-minded countries, whose activities were to be aimed at protecting the rights and freedoms of religious people in all over the world, was founded by the decision of the US Department of…

November 2 By Elliott Davis President Joe Biden addressed a momentous United Nations summit on Monday in stark terms about the need to urgently combat climate change. “Will we act? Will we do what is necessary? Will we seize the enormous opportunity before us, or…

November 1 By Den Rich Beijing has lashed out against a US intelligence review into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, calling it “political and false” while urging Washington to stop attacking China. The Chinese foreign ministry’s retort came on Sunday, days after the US…

October 30 By James Brooks The Alaska Legislature’s fourth special session will end Nov. 2 without a solution to the state’s perennial struggle over the Permanent Fund dividend, and legislative leaders say they are leaving the session further apart than when they started. That means…

October 29 By Mona Kazim Former U.S. officials say the withdrawal of U.S. coalition forces from Afghanistan has changed the political calculus of U.S.-Pakistan relations, making Washington less reliant on Islamabad when it comes to counterterrorism activities. In a recent interview with VOA’s Urdu Service,…