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The South Dakota House of Representatives failed Monday to override Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's veto of a bill aimed at regulating cryptocurrency at the state level.

South Dakota’s House has failed to override Gov. Kristi Noem’s recent veto of a bill that would have created government regulations for the use of cryptocurrency in the state.

Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of Chinese-based social media app TikTok, was roundly grilled by Congress Thursday, leading to reaction from Gov. Kristi Noem.

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed into law a $7.4 billion state budget for the coming fiscal year, despite multiple policy disagreements with lawmakers.

The governor of South Dakota is investing in the state's criminal justice system. Kristi Noem signed legislation to put over $390 million into South Dakota's prison system.

Politicians are quietly preparing for a digital dollar. It’s not good for your freedom, but legislation is being pushed in all 50 states to ease implementation.

Presidential candidate Nikki Haley split with Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump Tuesday by claiming that aiding Ukraine is vital to U.S. interests.

Several current and soon-to-be GOP presidential candidates addressed questions posed by Fox News' Tucker Carlson about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine ware.

Gov. Tim Walz has signed an executive order protecting the rights of LGBTQ people from Minnesota and other states to seek and receive gender affirming health care.

Despite consistent objection from Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, state legislators rejected a proposal to repeal the state's grocery tax

In a talk about COVID-19 policies, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem called government restrictions a "power grab" not unlike actions taken by the Chinese Communist Party.

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem calls out the Biden administration's response to China's surveillance escapades on Wednesday's "Special Report."

South Dakota is now the first state to pass legislation that would effectively force trans kids to detransition. The legislation, which marks the second state this year to attack healthcare for trans people, bans all gender-affirming care for patients under 18 years of age.

The bill bans both surgical and non-surgical treatments for transgender youth, and will take effect on July 1.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed a law on Monday that prohibits gender-affirming care like access to puberty blockers and surgery, for anyone under 18.

Vice President Kamala Harris' ascent to her current position represents a long step toward making women's full political equality a reality in both parties.

The Transformation Project, a transgender activist group in South Dakota, is suing Republican Gov. Kristi Noem for alleged discrimination after she canceled a contract with the group.

South Dakota lawmakers are advancing several crackdowns on Chinese-owned American land through the Legislature, with investigations into the matter also proposed.

South Dakota lawmakers are advancing a number of bills that would curb Chinese influence in South Dakota’s farmland.

First on Fox: Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota is headed to the nation’s capital next week to deliver three policy speeches that are sure to grab 2024 attention

The South Dakota Senate has sanctioned a member who was accused of harassing a legislative aide.

It suddenly spiraled as the senator allegedly harassed the aide because she had vaccinated her young child, plunging the Senate into a political drama that has divided South Dakota's Republican Party. The Senate, where lawmakers pride themselves on a genteel code of conduct as they work from wooden desks that have been there for generations, has seemed largely insulated from the forces roiling the wider GOP.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is getting heat from some state Freedom Caucus members who say her executive branch has “overstepped” its constitutional authority.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, along with the state's Republican attorney general, said Tuesday the state will prosecute pharmacists who dispense abortion-inducing pills following a recent Food and Drug Administration rule change that broadens access to the pills. The Republican governor and South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley released a letter to South Dakota pharmacists saying they are “subject to felony prosecution” if they procure or dispense abortion-inducing drugs. “South Dakota will continue to enforce all laws including those that respect and protect the lives of the unborn,” Noem and Jackley said in the letter.

South Dakota lawmakers advanced an initiative allowing for an optional social studies curriculum in K-12 schools teaching American exceptionalism.

The South Dakota House has approved a $200 million housing infrastructure fund, with the spending package now going to Republican Gov. Kristi Noem for final approval.

A Native American tribe in South Dakota says several of its members died when December storms buried their reservation in snow and left them stranded.

Honor Beauvais’ every breath was a battle as a snowstorm battered the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Honor, whose Lakota name is Yuonihan Ihanble, was pronounced dead last month at the Indian Health Service’s hospital on the reservation, one of six deaths that tribal leaders say "could have been prevented" if not for a series of systemic failures. Targets of the frustration include Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, the U.S. Congress, the Indian Health Service and even — for some — the tribe itself.

Republican hopefuls may distinguish themselves on the issue during the primaries, but it could haunt the nominee during the general election.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order Friday that prevents the state from doing business with particular telecommunications companies.

Her comments on abortion, in an interview with CBS News, came days after a top aide criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for "hiding" behind the state's 15-week abortion ban.

Gaetz says Trump needs a female running mate, theorizing that Trump won in 2016 because "a whole lot of women who didn't like him voted for him."

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem tweeted that the Biden administration has once again blocked the state from hosting Independence Day fireworks at Mt. Rushmore.

New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu says people are asking him to run for president in 2024, so he isn't closing the door. Neither is South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.

Gov. Kristi Noem is seeking answers on how federal agencies allowed her personal information to become public as a side-effect of record releases from the Jan. 6 committee.

A report says that the House Jan. 6 committee inadvertently released Social Security numbers belonging to nearly 2,000 individuals who visited the White House in December 2020.

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem named former State Rep. Melissa Magstadt as her next state health secretary following the Monday retirement of Joan Adam.

Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, declared a winter storm emergency and activated the state's National Guard to haul fire wood to a tribal community.

At least 16 states have banned TikTok on some or all government computers and phones. All are led by GOP governors.

South Dakota's governor has ended a contract with a transgender activist group amid a controversy over an upcoming summit at a state health provider in January.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has announced a ban on the use of TikTok and certain China and Russia-based platforms in the state’s executive branch of government.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is trying to win over the Republican-controlled Legislature with details of her plan to enact a historic repeal of the state’s tax on groceries.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday will try to win over the Republican-controlled Legislature with details of her plan to enact a historic repeal of the state's tax on groceries. Noem, a Republican, was critical of a proposal to repeal the state grocery tax during the final days of the legislative session in March, but this fall, she changed course and made it a centerpiece of her reelection campaign. It would help alleviate the squeeze of inflation on household budgets, she has argued.

In an interview with The New York Times, Gov. Kristi Noem spoke about her reservations about former President Donald Trump announcing his bid for re-election.

A record 12 women will take their seats as their states' highest-ranking elected officials when the nation's governors are sworn in this winter.

Eight of the country's top ten conservative governors according to an ALEC report were up for reelection in 2022, with all eight emerging with easy victories Tuesday.

Anti-lockdown governors fared much better in their bids for re-election in 2022 than they did in 2018, winning by an average margin of 18.1 percentage points this year.

Democrats held onto a string of competitive governors’ seats in the midterm elections after making the case to voters that Republican challengers posed a threat to abortion rights and democracy in their states.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem delivered a victory speech in Sioux Falls, S.D., after defeating Democratic nominee Jamie Smith in Tuesday's election.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/FacebookCHAMBERLAIN, South Dakota—A small-town cook who said he was forced into a photo with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem went from flipping pancakes and burgers to flipping the bird in the picture.It made Stefen Monteau an internet sensation in South Dakota for a few days—and also cost him his job at Main Street Cafe & Market in Chamberlain, S.D. Monteau said he was fired in part because Noem’s campaign team complained about the photo.Noem,

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem described the U.S. border with Mexico as a “war zone” last year when she sent dozens of state National Guard troops there.

A South Dakota prosecutor who was overseeing an investigation into Gov. Kristi Noem’s use of state government aircraft says that the investigation found nothing to support a criminal prosecution.

Presidential aspirants running for reelection while dreaming of the highest office in the land often face an uncomfortable question: Will they commit to serving a full term — should they win one — when their best moment to take a shot at the White House may come sooner than that.

Pot is a popular topic on ballots again this election.

Democrats want Georgia to join 38 other states in expanding the state-federal Medicaid health insurance program to cover all able-bodied adults.

The Noem for Governor campaign released a new ad, "Girls Dream," that focuses on Riley Gaines, the professional athlete who was forced to compete against a biological male.

Many political watchers expected Gov. Kristi Noem to cruise to reelection this year in Republican-dominated South Dakota against a Democratic challenger without statewide experience.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is under investigation by the state's Division of Criminal Investigation after an initial complaint to the board of ethics about her state-owned plane use.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is under investigation for using a state-owned airplane to fly to political events and bring family members with her on trips.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was returning from an official appearance in Rapid City in 2019 when she faced a decision: Overnight in the capital of Pierre, where another trip would start the next day, or head home and see her son attend his high school prom? The Republican governor chose the latter, a decision that eventually cost taxpayers some $3,700 when the state airplane dropped her off near her home and then returned the next day to pick her up. It’s one of several trips that year where Noem, a potential 2024 White House contender, blurred the lines between official travel and attending either family or political events.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is facing a lawsuit after her office refused to release expense records on five out-of-state trips this year to a liberal watchdog group. American Oversight, an organization that files open records requests and litigation against Republican officials, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Noem, who is in the midst of a reelection campaign and eyeing a bid for the GOP's 2024 presidential ticket. It alleges that the governor's office did not follow the state's open records law by claiming that releasing the records would create a threat to the governor's safety.

A South Dakota ethics board is keeping it a secret what action it took after finding there was evidence Gov. Kristi Noem improperly intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license.

California launched a publicly funded website to promote the state's abortion services, listing clinics and linking to financial help for travel.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is showing no sign of fighting an action taken against her by a state ethics board over her actions surrounding her daughter's application for a real estate appraiser's license.

A proposal for South Dakota's public school standards for American history was influenced by a conservative private college enjoying outsize influence among top Republicans.

A few days before middle school teacher Shaun Nielsen joined a work group to develop South Dakota's social studies standards, he got a thick package in the mail. Sent from Hillsdale, Michigan, home to a conservative private college enjoying outsize influence among top Republicans, it contained materials that would ultimately form what the state's public schools students could be expected to learn about American history and civics. “Whoa -- these are already written,” Nielsen remembers thinking as he opened the document this spring.

Noem asked a state ethics board to dismiss a complaint against her without a public hearing and to seal certain records.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked a state ethics board to dismiss a complaint against her without a public hearing and to seal off certain records.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked a state ethics board to dismiss a complaint against her without a public hearing and to seal off certain records, documents released Friday by the state’s Government Accountability Board show. The Republican governor argued in an April motion that the state's attorney general, a fellow Republican who filed the complaint, was out for political retribution and should be removed from the complaint. The South Dakota Legislature's audit committee, controlled by Republicans, unanimously approved a report in May that found Noem's daughter got preferential treatment.

"Because you pass a ballot measure like this down here, that puts every single project we do in South Dakota in jeopardy in the future," the governor said.

A South Dakota ethics board’s finding that Gov. Kristi Noem may have engaged in misconduct by intervening in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license isn’t likely the last word on the matter.

A South Dakota ethics board has found enough information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license to potentially take action against the Republican governor.

At the 7th annual Basque Fry in Gardnerville, a lineup of GOP national heavyweights and local Nevada politicians fired up a crowd of 1,500 Republicans with a message of urgency.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is headlining a major gathering of Republicans in South Carolina as he considers a 2024 White House bid.

When the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a right to abortion, it sparked legal changes and court challenges in states nationwide.

Several Republican governors seen as potential 2024 presidential candidates have been cautious to push new abortion restrictions in their state since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that gave some abortion clinics confidence to resume performing abortions.

The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that gave some abortion clinics confidence to resume performing abortions.

Former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has asked a state ethics board to press for an investigation of fellow Republican Gov. Kristi Noem.

South Dakota’s Republican governor is pledging to bar mail-order abortion pills but says women shouldn't face prosecution for seeking them.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem got an emphatic victory when the Senate removed Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office by convicting him of impeachment for killing a pedestrian with his car.

South Dakota senators will begin hearing evidence for the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, whose account of a fatal 2020 traffic accident led criminal investigators, some lawmakers and the victim’s family to question his truthfulness.

South Dakota senators are staying silent on how they will vote as they weigh whether to remove Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash.

In South Dakota, Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has tried to shape the Legislature to her liking.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has won the Republican primary for another term, defeating a former legislative leader who accused her of using the office to mount a 2024 White House bid.

Primary elections in seven states Tuesday will set the stage for U.S. House and Senate battles this fall that will play into control of Congress.

The nation's governors are diverging over how to respond to mass shootings such as the one that killed 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

The National Rifle Association is beginning its annual convention in Houston.

One by one, speakers took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state.

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Alabama’s Republican primary has become a race to the right, with candidates staking out extreme positions on abortion, immigration and LGBTQ issues.

South Dakota lawmakers have unanimously approved a report finding that Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter got preferential treatment while she was applying for a real estate appraiser license in 2020.

More than half of abortions in America are now done with pills, rather than surgery.

Former Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley has won the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor and will face incumbent Republican Mike DeWine this fall.

Ohio’s Republican governor won high marks early in the pandemic with his stay-at-home mandates.

The South Dakota House has impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 car crash in which he killed a pedestrian but initially said he might have struck a deer or another large animal.

Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations.

A debate is playing out across the country as the Treasury Department begins reallocating some of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance from places slow to spend to others that are running out of funds.

A South Dakota House committee investigating whether the state’s attorney general should be impeached for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash is set to finish its work this week.

Republican governors in two states this week rejected legislation to ban transgender players from girls sports.