Tina Kotek that some want to split the state. Secession Schemes Within the States: Last November, voters in seven Illinois counties approved ballot measures calling for the creation of a new state.

The vote, if it happens, would not be legally binding, and there is one huge and perhaps insurmountable hurdle to Californian secession: No such mechanism for states to leave the union currently ...

With the Trump administration once again targeting California on multiple fronts, the notion of secession is sparking renewed debate on whether the Golden State could just walk away from 175 years of ...

Alaska gained statehood in 1959. During a broadcast, he said, "Secession from the United States is half the battle. The main thing is to join Russia correctly. What a surprise it would be if the ...

The Knesset House Committee approved the official secession of MK Idan Roll from the opposition Yesh Atid Party on Tuesday, leaving Roll operating as an independent one-man faction in the Knesset.

Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called a bill proposed in the Republican-led Indiana General Assembly that would explore how Illinois counties could secede and join Indiana "a stunt" that is ...

Housing, public safety and secession Homebuilder and Rep. Doug Miller, R-Elkhart, hopes to chip away at Indiana’s housing shortage through his House Bill 1005. He led the charge with the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder pastures. “We think instead of seceding and ...

By Jim Farber Peter Yarrow, whose caring and righteous vocals for the trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped establish them as one of the most popular folk acts of the 1960s, died on Tuesday at his home ...

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Peter Yarrow, the Peter of folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, died on January 7. He was 86. Yarrow died at home in Manhattan from bladder cancer, which he had for the past four years, the New York ...

"I am so proud of you and everything you stand for," Kessler told Stockard after she won Natasha Dye is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE covering sports. Her previous work appears in The New York Post ...