CHICAGO – Months after record-high U.S. voter turnout propelled Democrats to victory in the 2020 elections, giving them control of the White House and both houses of Congress, Republicans are attempting to reshape election laws in state legislatures across the nation. In state after state, Republicans seek to limit opportunities for early and absentee balloting […]
YouTube CHICAGO – When he sat down with Voice of America last September for an exclusive interview ahead of his 95th birthday, Jimmy Carter — the first former president to reach that milestone — hinted that his age was catching up to him. “I fell down a few months ago and broke my left […]
CAMBRIDGE, WISCONSIN – Inside a sprawling barn on a farm outside Cambridge, Wisconsin, Tina Hinchley tends to hundreds of cows as part of her daily chores, something that hasn’t stopped during the COVID-19 crisis. “There is huge demand,” she said, for the kind of milk produced by Hinchley’s cows, which line up, one […]
MISHAWAKA, INDIANA — The saws, the sanding, the hammering. The constant sounds of construction are music to the ears of country music star Garth Brooks. “That sound you are hearing right there, that’s love,” he said, competing to have his voice heard over the ever-increasing buzz of activity that surrounds him on this construction site. For […]
The annual Farm Progress Show held every other year in Decatur, a town situated among the vast corn and soybean fields of central Illinois, is one of the largest farming exhibitions in the world, where manufacturers and suppliers show their latest and greatest products and equipment. In some cases, it’s a starting point for farmers […]
CHICAGO—With the price of oil now less than $80 a barrel, motorists throughout the United States are benefiting from gas prices below $3 a gallon. However, the decreasing price of gas has a downside for the hydraulic fracturing industry in the United States. North Dakota’s economy is on fire, thanks to developments in technology that […]
ATLANTA—To gain a majority in the U.S. Senate this fall, Republicans will need to defeat a handful of Democratic candidates in several close races. One such race is in the U.S. state of Georgia, where Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, and David Purdue, the son of former Governor Sonny Purdue, […]