Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, former adviser to Pope Francis, has been sentenced by a Vatican court to five and a half years in jail for financial crimes, making him the most senior Vatican official ever to face such charges.
An amended lawsuit claims that higher-ups overseeing the Conservative Political Action Conference knew about previous claims of sexual misconduct by Chairman Matt Schlapp but failed to act.
Gov. Josh Green (D-HI) has threatened to use the "hammer" of emergency orders to convert 3,000 temporary vacation rentals into longer-term housing for survivors displaced by the wildfire that swept across the island of Maui in August.
A male staffer for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) was released from his post on Saturday after he was named and accused of filming himself engaging in explicit sexual activity in a congressional hearing room.
Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu shared a photo on social media of the controversial "electeds of color" holiday party for government officials of ethnic minority backgrounds.
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) was joined by an emotional guest during his signing of a major probation reform bill on Friday, which includes a reduction in the kinds of parole violations that could send a convict back to prison.
