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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday appeared to poke fun at the size of the crowd that attended former President Trump’s keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the weekend, saying that the room was “half-full.” “You saw the scenes at CPAC, that room was half-full,” Christie said on ABC’s “This Week.” “The reason I don’t think the rallies are going on … I don’t think the rallies would be nearly as big as they were before.” Camera shots from Trump’s speech at the conference showed that the room was not nearly at full...

West Virginians choosing not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine are entering a “death lottery,” the state’s governor said, as the portion of residents fully inoculated against the virus hovers around 46.4%.

Gov. Bill Richardson's office said Wednesday that students from the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired will fly on the new state jet. The statement was included in a news release blasting an Albuquerque Journal story published Wednesday that reported the state's 10-year practice of transporting students home from the Alamogordo school on weekends had ended. The news release labeled parts of the story as "wrong" and "untrue." According to the story, School Superintendent Dianna Jennings had said in a telephone interview earlier in the week that the school would seek alternate air service because the state...

Democrat John Kerry briefly relaxed on rival President Bush's home turf Saturday but apparently wasn't even aware of it....