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Tennessee's governor on Tuesday urged the state's citizens to respond to the Nashville school shooting with prayer, love and forgiveness, as he hinted that policy changes would be debated down the road.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is scheduled to speak at Liberty University’s Convocation in April.

A Manhattan grand jury determining whether to indict former President Donald Trump reconvened at noon on Thursday after abruptly taking the day off on Wednesday.

Our political culture is divided to a depth that raises questions about our national future. A former president of the United States and current leader for his party’s presidential nomination is either the victim of a partisan witch hunt or the perpetrator of felony crimes; one would think either scenario would move the political needle. As it is, it would seem that both parties are believing and doing precisely what the other party condemns them for doing. The depth of these divisions is unprecedented in living memory.

Should America get a divorce from itself? Twenty percent of Americans think so, believing Republican- and Democratic-leaning states should split into separate countries.

Last month, two North Dakota Republican lawmakers turned their backs on a chaplain as she led them in prayer.

President Joe Biden recently called state laws banning gender transition surgeries for minors “cruel” and “close to sinful.”

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is considering approval of a monument that would commemorate unborn babies aborted in Arkansas before Roe v. Wade was reversed.

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky pushed a bill on Thursday that would place limits on drag shows in the state.

In the wake of the announcement that former President Jimmy Carter will spend his remaining days at home, political observers have reappraised different aspects of his presidency. By any objective measure, Carter’s Presidency was one of the most difficult in American history. In July 1979, Carter’s administration put him in a pinch by prematurely announcing he would give a televised speech addressing the energy crisis.

Washington panned the speech, accusing Carter of blaming the American people for his administration’s failures. Some Americans received the speech warmly, and his approval rating jumped by eleven points. History, though, has not been kind to the speech, viewing it as a harbinger for the coming beat down he would take in the election of 1980.

As Carter sought to diagnose the problem at the heart of American life, he blamed Washington, but recognized that what happened there was a symptom of the disease in the rest of America. Carter said, “In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.