COLUMBUS, Ohio — The election contests of 2022 may have been held and decided, but Ohio’s political maps remain far from settled. Voters gave the Ohio Supreme Court “exclusive, original jurisdiction” to decide legal challenges, which included three lawsuits against the legislative maps and two lawsuits against the congressional map. Ohio’s congressional map dispute is now awaiting action in the …
After throwing his hat in the ring for the Congress presidential poll, Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor has made his party sit up and take notice with his four-day tour of Kerala’s Malabar region, which culminated on November 23. He has been winning the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat since 2009, a feat accomplished despite lacking a support base within …
INDIANAPOLIS — Just how far Indiana lawmakers will go in limiting what teachers can say in their classrooms about race and politics is among several key unresolved issues at the midway point of this year’s legislative session. Senate Republicans pulled their version of the proposal in mid-January following widespread criticism after bill sponsor GOP Sen. Scott Baldwin of Noblesville said …
Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas is the second sitting city councilman to be indicted on federal corruption charges in as many years. “I don’t know how you can have a federal indictment with allegations that he abused the public trust — selling his public position for the benefit of his family — and not ask whether he should continue …