One type of secession active in 2025 is when one or more rural counties seek to secede from the current state to join a ...

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

During debate Wednesday on a state takeover of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, state Rep. Michael Burton, ...

Pew found a huge age gap, with young adults overwhelmingly less religious than their elders—some 46 percent of the youngest Americans identify as Christian, compared to 80 percent of the oldest adults ...

A widely-used online Ukrainian battlefield map appeared to show Ukrainian forces no longer in control of the town of Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region on Wednesday.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government shutdown — the only one in the caucus to support the stopgap. Golden’s ...

Cases of measles, a highly infectious disease that is particularly dangerous to children, have been reported in 12 U.S. states since the beginning of 2025, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 49 °F (9.4 °C). Sunny with a high of 74 °F (23.3 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph). Mostly sunny ...