A proposal to increase salaries for Hawaii's state executives, judges, and legislators is facing pushback, with some questioning whether elected officials deserve a pay hike while ongoing state issues ...

Kosovars are casting votes in a parliamentary election considered a key test for Prime Minister Albin Kurti as talks on ...

Russia launched another wave of drone attacks on Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Saturday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of a Russian military build-up.

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Republicans in Congress and state legislatures are charging forward with plans to require Americans to prove they are ...

The by-election has been caused by the resignation of former Greens MLA Sam Hibbins and will be held on the same day as the Werribee by-election. The key dates for Prahran (some dates differ for ...

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State legislators are seeking to close a 20-year-old loophole that has allowed government contractors to donate to ...

Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...

In the months following Donald Trump’s election to his second term as president, many who did not support him seemed to go into hibernation. Off went the televisions, cratering postelection ratings ...

Even though it packed good punch, some say the storm didn’t hit as hard as they expected, which is a good thing. But that ...

A proposed Hawaiʻi Constitution amendment that would be at odds with the controversial 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision that took the brakes off campaign spending limits has passed ...