Politics & Government
The Daily Inter Lake’s Politics & Government section delivers updated local and national political coverage, featuring legislative developments, elections, policy debates, and government actions shaping Montana.
Counting machines add vote of confidence to elections security
The conference room of the Flathead County Elections Department whirred with noise. Volunteers rattled off strings…
Biden's challenge: Breaking through with virus response
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is working to reassert himself in national politics three weeks after taking command of the Democratic presidential primary.
Lawyers seeking release of nonviolent inmates in Tucson jail
PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors and public defenders were working Tuesday to win the release of an unknown number of nonviolent inmates in the county jail in Tucson…
Albany hospital fills as Georgia infections cross 1,000
ATLANTA (AP) — The number of confirmed infections from the new coronavirus pushed past 1,000 in Georgia on Tuesday, with deaths rising to 32, as officials in s…
South Dakota governor signs 'riot-boosting' penalties
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed a bill that revives the state's criminal and civil penalties for rioting and inciting a riot, the Republican governor's office said Tuesday.
UK clamps down to fight virus, but confusion still reigns
LONDON (AP) — Confusion rippled through Britain on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a three-week halt to all non-essential activity to…
Doctors plead with Tennessee governor for stay-at-home order
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Doctors across Tennessee pleaded with Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday to take stronger action to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
Key medical glove factories cutting staff 50% amid virus
Malaysia's medical glove factories, which make most of the world's critical hand protection, are operating at half capacity just when they're most needed, The …
Vermont Senate passes coronavirus bills; on to the House
The Vermont Senate on Tuesday passed a series of measures designed to help the state respond to the COVID-19 outbreak that is sweeping the state and the nation.
North Carolina's largest county issues stay-at-home order
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Leaders of North Carolina's largest county have approved a "stay-at-home" order for residents in and around Charlotte, where the number of…
Ex-Trump lawyer loses effort for early prison release
NEW YORK (AP) — A former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump was denied early release from a three-year prison sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty …
Texas' lieutenant governor says US should get 'back to work'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' lieutenant governor said Monday night that the U.S. should get back to work in the face of the global pandemic and that people over…
Grim find: Bodies of virus victims in Spanish nursing homes
MADRID (AP) — Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of peopl…
Lawsuit challenges Tennessee false campaign literature law
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Iconic plant's end spells doom for struggling coal industry
DRAKESBORO, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump tried to stop it from happening. The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, did too.
Milwaukee mayor, others urge Evers to hold election by mail
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Voting advocacy groups and the mayor of Wisconsin's largest city on Tuesday urged Gov. Tony Evers to close polling sites and conduct the state's spring election entirely by mail to protect vote…