Politics & Government

Politics & Government

Week in politics: McCarthy's bid to be Speaker; federal budget for next year

7:57am December 17, 2022

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn't have enough votes to become speaker when his party takes control of the chamber in Congress. Plus, a new federal budget.

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Meet the women who flipped two seats in the Pacific Northwest after years of one-party control

7:57am December 17, 2022

In this year's midterm elections, two seats in the Pacific Northwest flipped after years of one-party control. A look at the women who won these races.

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Encore: Gov. Ron DeSantis may be in the middle of a stealth campaign

4:54pm December 16, 2022

by Greg Allen

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn't talking about running for the Republican presidential nomination. But his fundraising and upcoming book release may be part of a stealth campaign.

NC Supreme Court dismisses suit to return Confederate statue

3:51pm December 16, 2022

by Hannah Schoenbaum, Associated Press

North Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Friday that the local chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy lacks standing to challenge the city of Winston-Salem's removal of a Confederate monument on private property, but it can refile a future lawsuit making similar arguments.

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N. Carolina justices: State Senate map must be drawn again

3:37pm December 16, 2022

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that state Senate boundaries drawn by Republican legislators — under which the court permitted this year's elections to be conducted — remain tainted by partisan bias and must be redrawn by trial judges.

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N. Carolina voter ID still void after Supreme Court ruling

3:09pm December 16, 2022

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

A 2018 law requiring photo identification to vote in North Carolina remains invalidated after a narrow majority on the state Supreme Court agreed Friday with a lower court decision that struck it down.

A poll worker hands off a Georgia Voted sticker to a voter on Election Day, Nov. 8, in Atlanta.

Step aside, Florida and Ohio. Georgia is ready to be a political battleground

3:00pm December 16, 2022

by Sam Gringlas

Is it purple? Georgia's status as a solid red state has been challenged in recent elections but not everyone is ready to say it's changing hue.

Statewide "Booze It & Lose It" enforcement campaign is underway

10:10am December 16, 2022

by Neal Charnoff

You’ll likely see more law enforcement officers patrolling the highways in the next few weeks. The statewide “Booze It & Lose It” holiday enforcement effort is underway.

The Senate passed a continuing resolution Thursday to avoid a partial government shutdown.

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Congress dodges a partial government shutdown with a short-term spending measure

11:30pm December 15, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Lawmakers are still trying to iron out the details on a larger plan but say they have agreed on a framework for how to fund the government through September 2023.

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How much of a battleground state will Georgia be in the future?

6:17pm December 15, 2022

by Sam Gringlas

With the decisive win of Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia's runoff election, Republicans and Democrats are looking to the state and wondering just how much of a battleground it will be moving forward.

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