Waving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans jammed a highway Monday to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a crisis triggered by the leak of offensive, obscenity-laden chat messages between him and his advisers.
Read morePuerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek re-election or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party.
Read moreIn the Spanish colonial fortress that serves as his official residence, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is under siege.
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Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Sunday “the vast majority of the problem with the campaign was me,” but promised to stay in the Democratic presidential race — despite calls from his own staff to drop out and run for Senate.
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California’s governor vowed on Monday to continue expanding taxpayer funded health benefits to adults living in the country illegally next year, ensuring the volatile issue will get top billing in the 2020 presidential election as Democrats vying for the nomination woo voters in the country’s most populous state.
Read moreA week after 12 people were shot dead by a former Virginia Beach city employee, Governor Ralph Northam said Friday that Virginia lawmakers will reconvene July 9 for a special legislative session aimed at changing state gun laws.
Read moreVirginia Governor Ralph Northam announced Tuesday a special legislative session this summer to push for changes to state gun laws after 12 people were killed last week in a mass shooting at a Virginia Beach government building.
Read moreIowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have sharply limited the authority of the Democratic attorney general to bring litigation on behalf of the state in courts outside its borders.
Read moreAn independent investigation ordered by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s alma mater could not determine whether Northam was pictured in a 1984 yearbook photo showing someone in blackface next to a person in a Ku Klux Klan robe, according to a report released Wednesday.
Read moreYears of lobbying for new judgeships have yielded results with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose revised May budget released Thursday offers $30 million for 25 new judges.
Read moreTaking a cue from his predecessor Jerry Brown, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that despite exploding tax collections and billions in reserves, his administration is preparing for “uncertain economic headwinds” by stashing cash in his proposed budget.
Read moreDemocratic presidential hopeful and Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Friday released a 10-year clean energy plan that he says would put the country on track to meet the stringent deadline that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a 2018 report was necessary to avoid catastrophe.
Read moreFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis did not exceed his authority when he suspended a sheriff over his response to two mass shootings, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreUndeterred by threats of legal challenges, Republican Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Thursday made good on his promise to sign into law the nation’s most sweeping abortion restrictions, banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat has been detected – around six weeks of pregnancy.
Read moreKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said in a radio interview that he deliberately exposed his children to chickenpox so they would catch the highly contagious disease and become immune.
Read moreFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis has been hit with a lawsuit from a suspended sheriff who claims the governor’s decision to oust him was nothing more than a “political power play” designed to scapegoat him for last year’s Parkland high school massacre.
Read moreThe Iowa Supreme Court, which had been criticized for being all-male and all-white, will now have its first justice who represents a minority group.
Read moreThe demise of California high-speed rail may have been greatly exaggerated in the immediate aftermath of Governor Newsom’s first major speech: He says now he favors a more focused, cost-controlled approach.
Read moreThe top-ranked state in America for new job creation and exports, Governor Greg Abbott bragged about Texas’ economy Tuesday in his State of the State address but admitted the state lags in school funding and declared it an emergency issue for the 2019 legislative session.
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