The vice president, long a skeptic of US military intervention, is the rare figure in the administration who can appeal to both the realist and hawkish wings of the GOP.

Far from being the deft strategist he portrays, Trump has turned American diplomacy into an impulsive, self-serving spectacle.

Go. Mike Kehoe signed legislation to ban the foreign funding of ballot issue campaigns, making Missouri the ninth state to do so in the past year.

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has lost his bid to thwart a Kansas law banning foreign actors from funneling money into state-level ballot initiatives. In May, the Elias Law Group,