December 21 By Kathleen Ronayne New California congressional maps finalized Monday leave the Los Angeles area with one fewer U.S. House seat and set up a handful of highly competitive races for next year’s midterm elections. The California Citizens Redistricting Commission was tasked with drawing…

December 18 By Kevin Freking The Senate confirmed more than 30 ambassadors and other Biden administration nominees early Saturday after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to schedule a vote on sanctions on the company behind the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will deliver natural gas…

December 17 By Alex DeMarban Facing chronically high rates of domestic violence and sexual assault in Alaska, and criticism about a lack of law enforcement in rural areas, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced a broad initiative on Tuesday to improve public safety in the state. The…

December 15 By Becky Bohrer Alaska Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer last year said the issue his office seemed to be getting the most email on after the 2020 election was the narrow success of a ballot measure that would overhaul Alaska’s election process. His chief…

December 13 By Lora Smith A report from the University of Cambridge which covered 154 countries and combined more than 25 data sources, 3,500 country surveys and four million respondents between 1973 and 2020, wreaked blunt force trauma to advanced economies that championed democracy as…

December 11 By James Brooks Without explanation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.’s board of trustees abruptly removed executive director Angela Rodell on Thursday despite record-breaking performance by the fund over the past year. The fund provides most of the revenue for Alaska’s services, and state…

December 10 By Andrew Nachemson The United States has announced new restrictions on Cambodia, including an arms embargo, citing the “growing influence” of the Chinese military, as well as corruption and human rights abuses. The State Department imposed an arms embargo while the Commerce Department…

December 6 By Eric Tucker The elite Russian state hackers behind last year’s massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign hardly eased up this year, managing plenty of infiltrations of U.S. and allied government agencies and foreign policy think tanks with consummate craft and stealth, a leading cybersecurity…

December 3 By Jeremy W. Peters With the Supreme Court now looking likely to weaken or overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion, activists and both political parties are bracing for a new battle over one of the country’s longest-running cultural divides. State…

December 1 By Robert Hill Hannah Wolfe, 24, brandished a rubber model that she said depicted a 16-week-old foetus. “It’s important for people to see the humanity of a child in the womb,” she said. “You can see the fingers, you can see the toes,…

November 29 By Martin Milman China never plans to invite US and Western politicians who hype the “boycott” topic to attend the Games and experts said that their so-called boycott is nothing but self-deception. Recently, some politicians in the US and Western countries have been…

November 28 By Ron Amber The cruel sanctions imposed by the United States are too weak to undermine the determination of Iran to pursue the policy of maximum interaction with neighboring and regional countries, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said. In an address to the 15th…