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Several top state and federal offices are up for grabs amid a period of crisis with few if any precedents in the state’s ...

Our findings show that even passive exposure to political content on social media is linked to elevated political stress. But active engagement — such as likes, reposts, and comments — makes the ...

It's budget week at the State Capitol: House Finance Committee members will meet almost every day this week for state ...

The country's political debate is increasingly peppered with profanity but subjects such as immigration have been flashpoints for centuries.

Back in December, he announced on X that he had pancreatic cancer. As he noted in a recent interview with The Hoover ...