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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The first North Carolina municipalities are acting to expand LGBT...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is again swimming in money.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican state senator who was on the scene when a violent...

Gina Raimondo and Joe Biden PHOTO: Raimondo campaign In a matter of weeks, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo will be 10th in line to be President of the United States, if she is confirmed as United States Secretary of Commerce.  President-elect Joseph Biden is naming Raimondo to Commerce according to sources, and under the current presidential order of succession -- which was established by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 -- Raimondo is in the top ten.  Obviously, each officer must ...

How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a monumental security failure Peter Hermann, Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis and David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - Inside the U.S. Capitol, the rioters were in charge. Trump supporters were roaming freely, carrying off furniture. Capitol Police had not asked other law enforcement agencies for help until their building was surrounded by a mob seeking to overturn the election results. Now, their o...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is again swimming in money.

Editor’s note: Because of concern about President Trump’s access to US nuclear launch codes in the waning days of his administration, we are republishing this 2018 article by three noted nuclear weapons experts, one of whom, Steve Fetter, is a member of the Bulletin ‘s Science and Security Board. In the United States, the president has sole authority to order the use of nuclear weapons, for any reason and at any time. This arrangement is both risky and unnecessary. The risks are not hypot...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Greeted by hundreds of protesters waving signs, some chanting...

PA Republicans refuse to seat Dem over inclusion of 311 undated votes   The GOP President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate refused to seat a Democratic senator-elect. His win was certified and upheld by the Democrat-ruled state Supreme Court. The President Pro Tempore then tossed the Lt. Governor out of the chamber after he objected vociferously. The Story The election is going to be contested. Opponent Nicole Ziccarelli asked a federal judge to toss certain mail-in ballots, which wou...

Pacific Alliance countries analyze the hydrometeorological risk impacts Image In 2015, fifty-two people died and around 180,000 were affected in Chile by a flood in the Atacama, Antofagasta and Coquimbo regions. Losses from this event reached around US$ 2 billion and the reconstruction took 5 years. This high cost would have been mitigated if the country had an in-force risk transfer instrument that allowed to transfer the financial impact of a particular risk to a third party like capital mark...