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In spring 2020, state and local governments were confronted with cascading costs in managing the public health response to the pandemic, spiking unemployment, and steep sales tax and user fee revenue declines resulting from business disruption and restrictions.

Several buyers of Russian natural gas have agreed to switch to payment in rubles, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday.

New border policies make it easier for migrants to be free within the United States, including those detained by border patrol.

Bill represents "the most significant protections for life that have been enacted in this state in a generation," DeSantis said.

Poll of likely voters finds respondents take exception to the company's pro-LTBTQ agenda for kids.

Black Lives Matter and its co-founder Patrisse Cullors could face civil or criminal penalties for illegally using the organization's $6 million Los Angeles mansion for Cullors's private benefit, a watchdog group charged in a complaint filed with the IRS on Thursday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday signed legislation to protect unborn babies in the Sunshine State, banning abortions after 15 weeks.

We are not only in an epidemiological crisis, we also are in an epistemological crisis.

This coming weekend, the world’s 2.5 billion Christians will celebrate — emphasis on “celebrate” — the torture, execution and resurrection of an obscure Jewish carpenter.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship Act into law, which provides scholarships covering tuition and fees at the state’s public higher education institutions.