It’s mission accomplished for Republicans in a second state they control in the high-stakes political battle over congressional redistricting, pitting President Donald Trump and the GOP against the Democrats. Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe last weekend signed into law a new congressional map that is likely to hand Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives ahead of next year’s midterms elections. Missouri, a one-time swing state...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Sunday he will sue the Trump administration over the deployment of 300 California National Guard personnel to Oregon. “We’re suing Donald Trump. His deployment of the California National Guard to Oregon isn’t about crime. It’s about power. He is using our military as political pawns to build up his own ego,” Newsom wrote in a post on X. “It’s appalling. It’s un-American....

“The sky is burnin’” – Burnin’ Sky by Bad Company, 1977 Humans have looked for omens since the days when they wore loin cloths and watched shadows dance on cave walls from a crudely constructed fire. Ancient peoples believed celestial events like an eclipse, a full moon or even a violent storm augur signs of a looming disaster. But let’s face it. Contemporary humans really aren’t that much...