China, Vietnam Sign Dozens Of New Deals Strengthening Ties As Trump Works To Renegotiate Trade

Chinese national president Xi Jinping signed dozens of cooperation agreements with Vietnam on Monday to deepen regional economic ties and blunt the impact of wiping out US tariffs that have shook a heavy economy. The deal concluded during XI’s province’s visit to Hanoi focuses on streamlining supply chains and building cross-border rail infrastructure, and building […]

Republican Latinos are on the rise. This legislative caucus is just one sign

On last election day, conversations with the family confirmed Suzette Martinez Valladares’ prediction that Latino Republicans were about to shock California. “I swear when they were 20, they’re socialists,” the Acton-based state senator said of her relatives when she had lunch at a restaurant in Santa Ana. Ta. “But after that [one of them] I […]

Biden Blanks On How To Sign A Bill After 50 Years In Government

On Tuesday, it became clear that President Joe Biden, despite serving as an elected official since 1971, appears to have forgotten how to sign legislation, demonstrating continued national decline. Ta. “The second thing I’m signing is establishing Highlands National Monument. Let’s go. Do we have to fill this in?” At the time, he asked the […]

‘Sign Of Great Hope’: Religious Leaders See A ‘Fourth Great Awakening’ As Americans Flock To Christianity

A growing number of Americans are turning to Christian beliefs in what some religious leaders and scholars are calling the “Fourth Great Awakening.” Bible sales will skyrocket in the United States in 2024, religious colleges are seeing enrollment increase despite an overall decline in higher education attendance, and several states are seeing Bible sales increase […]

Verde Valley residents report sign thefts 

There were dozens of reports of political signs being vandalized across the Verde Valley in the run-up to the 2024 general elections. “I think it’s because they get emotional about a particular candidate or issue and they just get angry and put it on a billboard,” said Yavapai County Schools Superintendent-elect Steve King. [R] Said. […]

No sign of strife over California’s latest same-sex marriage measure

After living in the same house for 20 years, I started to feel like I didn’t belong in my city. 2008 was Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, but at the same time Proposition 8a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in California. I covered marriage equality for the editorial board and wrote several […]