European Union leaders seal $54 billion aid package for Ukraine after Hungary lifts veto threat

The Energy Department announced the end of replenishing the nation’s strategic oil reserves on Friday, which were depleted by nearly half under President Biden, and used the opportunity to praise the administration for the work it has done to maintain and replenish the stockpile. However, as of Nov. 1, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) […]

Lawmakers in at least six states are considering longer prison sentences or bigger fines for harming or killing police dogs, and the idea has bipartisan support despite questions about how the animals are used and a fraught history. In Kansas on Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House voted 107-4 to pass a bill sponsored by its top […]

Rosemarie Myrdal, the second woman to serve as North Dakota’s lieutenant governor, has died. She was 94. Myrdal died Wednesday night in Grafton due to old age, said state Sen. Janne Myrdal, her daughter-in-law. Funeral and burial services are planned for Monday at Pioneer Church in Gardar. “She had her garden, and she ate healthy, […]