KRISTI NOEM

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.

South Dakota lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved a report finding that Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's daughter got preferential treatment while she was applying for a real estate appraiser's license in 2020. The findings of last year's legislative probe, which was conducted by a Republican-controlled Government Operations and Audit Committee, repudiate Noem's insistence that her daughter, Kassidy Peters, didn't receive special treatment with her application. Noem, who is running for reelection and is positioned for a 2024 White House bid, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, despite holding a meeting that included Peters and key decision-makers from the agency that was evaluating her license application just days after the agency moved to deny her the license.

South Dakota lawmakers on Wednesday will consider a legislative report that finds Gov. Kristi Noem's daughter received preferential treatment while she was applying for a real estate appraiser license in 2020. The Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee last year probed into the certification process for Noem's daughter, Kassidy Peters after The Associated Press reported the Republican governor had called a meeting that included Peters and key decision-makers in the agency evaluating her license application just days after the agency had moved to deny her the license.

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.

A Boston resident is conflicted over a unanimous Supreme Court that ruled Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag outside City Hall. (May 2)

A South Dakota ethics board on Monday moved to hire an outside attorney as it considers a pair of ethics complaints against Gov. Kristi Noem, delaying its decision on whether to investigate allegations the governor interfered in a state agency evaluating her daughter's application for a real estate appraiser license and misused state airplanes. After meeting for roughly an hour in a closed-door executive session, the retired judges who sit on the Government Accountability Board decided they needed legal advice, but that it shouldn't come from the lawyer who usually advises the board because she works in the attorney general's office. Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, who is a Republican like Noem, initiated the complaints after media reports on Noem’s actions in office.

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.

Donald Trump is still out & about holding campaign-style rallies but he’s not bringing in the crowds like he did back in 2015 & 2016.

Andy Nesbitt recaps an eventful Masters and how Scottie Scheffler continues to show he's the hottest golfer in the world. Tiger Woods and Rory Mcllroy also showed signs that they can compete on the highest stage the rest of the year.

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.

The committee's party-line decision was a major setback for those trying to remove the Republican from office.

The committee has been probing whether Jason Ravnsborg should be impeached for conduct surrounding fatal car crash in 2020.

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.

South Dakota's new medical marijuana law is changing less than a year after it went on the books.

As prices at the pump surge, GOP leaders see the suspended oil pipeline as a solution. But the answer isn't so simple.

As prices at the pump surge, GOP leaders see the suspended oil pipeline as a solution. But the answer isn't so simple.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s election-year fight with fellow Republicans in the Legislature has spurred criticism she is neglecting her job to angle for the White House.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's cabinet secretary who oversaw an investigation into the state's attorney general for a 2020 fatal car crash on Wednesday urged House lawmakers to bring impeachment charges against him, alleging in a letter that the attorney general was distracted, was untruthful during the investigation and previously traded “disparaging and offensive” text messages with his staff about other state officials. Secretary of Public Safety Craig Price released the letter sent to House lawmakers Wednesday, stating that the investigation led him to conclude Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is “unfit to hold the position as the chief law enforcement officer" of the state.

The South Dakota House on Tuesday rejected a Republican-sponsored resolution to criticize Gov. Kristi Noem for allegedly interfering in a state agency to aid her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license. Democrats and a group of Republicans who have sparred with the GOP governor joined to support the resolution, which would have had no force of law. The resolution, brought by Republican Rep. John Mills, aimed to call Noem's conduct “unacceptable” and “detrimental” to the morale of state employees for an episode that was first reported by The Associated Press.

DeSantis dominated without Trump on the ballot, winning 61% of the attendees, including two-thirds of Trump supporters.

Leading Republicans spent much of the first three days at a conservative political gathering avoiding Donald Trump’s chief grievances or ignoring him altogether.

Over three days, Republicans at the Conservative Political Action Conference seemed intent on avoiding Donald Trump’s grievances about the last election, and some ignored him altogether.

Both criticized Putin, but sided with President Trump in saying the Russian leader is "smart."

"That makes me sad, and we should figure it out," said Noem, who signed into law a bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports.

The Republican National Committee voted to censure Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for serving on the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. On "Red & Blue," CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jang discusses this and other political developments with CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe and CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns.

As thousands of truckers continue to protest against Canada’s COVID-19 rules, the mayor of Ottawa has declared a state of emergency, saying "the hatred, the violence, the illegal acts at residences and businesses have endured over the last week is unacceptable.” Mola Lenghi reports.

As new satellite images show Russian troops in Belarus moving closer to Ukraine’s border, CBS News’ foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab looks into Ukraine’s war preparations. Meanwhile, a former foreign minister tells Tyab he does not believe a Russian invasion is imminent.

Ukrainian army instructors have been holding military training sessions with civilians amid fears of a Russian invasion

Paramilitary volunteers from Georgia have arrived in Ukraine to train civilians in preparation for a possible invasion by Russia. The threat of war has prompted thousands of Ukrainian citizens to take to the streets in Kharkiv, waving the nation's flag in a show of solidarity. Imtiaz Tyab has the story.

Father Viktor Marynchak is performing a monthly memorial service for of Ukrainian servicemen killed during the fighting against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Feb. 6)

Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo says U.S. sanctions would take aim at the Russian financial system and key Russian elites if the Kremlin invades Ukraine.

156 contestants from over 10 countries took part in a cold water swimming competition in the icy waters of Stockholm, Sweden's Hellasgarden nature reserve on Feb. 6.

The town of Mananjary, on the east coast of Madagascar, was heavily affected by tropical cyclone Batsirai, which hit the island with gusts of up to 235 km/h. Many homes were destroyed and flooded, and residents are imploring the state to help them.

Since 2012, visitors have scoured Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, in search of hidden treasure: hand-blown glass orbs. Correspondent Martha Teichner talks to glass artists Eben Horton and Jennifer Nauck, who create the delicate prizes, and joins other "orbivores" (orb hunters) on the prowl.

Homes were destroyed and flooded in the town of Mananjary, Madagascar, after Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on Feb. 5.

ABC News' Jonathan Karl, Chris Christie and Sarah Isgur weigh in on the current state of the GOP on "This Week."

Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesSouth Dakota Republicans haven’t lost a statewide election since 2008. They have slapped Democrats around in just about every campaign, even running unopposed for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010 and U.S. House seat in 2020.Now it seems like they’re so desperate for a good fight that they’ve picked several among themselves.Gov. Kristi Noem, who has been riding high in polls in her state, has never lost an election. She served four terms in Congress before being elected governo

As tensions simmer at the border between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian civilians are ensuring that they’re fully prepared should an invasion take place. Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO and has implicitly threatened the former Soviet state with a massive military build-up.

Opponents of the legislation condemned its passage Thursday, calling it "discrimination."

Opponents of the legislation condemned its passage Thursday, calling it "discrimination."

The U.S. said it has intelligence of a Russian plot to stage a fake attack by Ukrainian forces as a pretext for a possible invasion. Holly Williams reports.

A South Dakota government accountability board has set an April deadline for Gov. Kristi Noem to respond to a pair of ethics complaints.

A South Dakota government accountability board on Thursday set an April deadline for Gov. Kristi Noem to respond to a pair of ethics complaints from the state’s attorney general, signaling it believes the complaints might have merit. Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, who like Noem is a Republican, asked the board to consider two issues. One is whether Noem’s use of state airplanes broke the law, and the other is whether she improperly interfered with a state agency that was evaluating her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license.

"D.C. does stuff like that, not South Dakota," Governor Kristi Noem said after lawmakers declined to consider her proposal.

It mimics a Texas law ​that leaves enforcement up to private citizens through lawsuits.

State-by-state battles over the future of abortion are setting up around the U.S. Republican lawmakers are proposing new restrictions based on laws in Texas and Mississippi and some Democratic-led states are working to preserve access.

A South Dakota legislative committee has approved a bill championed by Gov. Kristi Noem to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports leagues that match their gender identity.

Republican governors are highlighting their opposition to restrictions that have marked the COVID-19 pandemic even as they seek to move past it and set their agendas for the year.

U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota has repeatedly made it clear that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election in a fair process.

"It is no longer the case that government regulation or intervention is dead on arrival within the Republican Party."

South Dakota lawmakers have approved Gov. Kristi Noem’s new rule for medical abortions that make the state one of the hardest places in the U.S. to get abortion pills.

The director of a South Dakota agency has resigned amid scrutiny over Gov. Kristi Noem’s hands-on role in the agency prior to his arrival and as it evaluating her daughter’s real estate appraiser license in 2020. Scott Amundson, who took over the state's Appraiser Certification Program last summer, told The Associated Press on Monday he had resigned but declined to publicly comment on his reasons for doing so. Amundson last year replaced the longtime director of the Appraiser Certification Program, Sherry Bren, after she was pressured to retire by Noem's cabinet secretary during an episode that has drawn criticism of the governor from government ethics experts.

South Dakota political candidates are revving into full campaign mode this week, with one big exception — Republican Sen. John Thune.

The former director of a South Dakota appraiser agency told lawmakers Tuesday that Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter received unusual treatment in an application for her real estate appraiser license.

South Dakota lawmakers are preparing to hear from a former state employee at the center of questions over whether Gov. Kristi Noem interfered in an agency that was evaluating her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license.

South Dakota lawmakers are readying to hear Tuesday from a former state employee at the center of questions over whether Gov. Kristi Noem interfered in a state agency that was evaluating her daughter's application for a real estate appraiser license. It could be the first time that longtime agency director Sherry Bren speaks publicly about a meeting in the governor's mansion last year since The Associated Press first reported on it in September. The Republican governor held the meeting just days after Bren's agency moved to deny Noem's daughter, Kassidy Peters, an upgrade to her appraiser license. Peters received another opportunity to pursue her license through an agreement signed the week after the meeting.

It’s the moment conservatives have been waiting for.

It's "not like he's a narcissist or anything," deadpanned one critic.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettySIOUX FALLS—The “Mount Trumpmore” statue that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem gave to then-President Donald Trump—grafting him onto the iconic monument—was not mothballed.The bronze—which has not been seen since it was presented—made a surprise appearance in a photo Trump released Tuesday showing him meeting Kyle Rittenhouse at Mar-a-Lago. The sculpture, created by South Dakota artists Lee Leuning and Sherri Treeby can be seen below a table at the Trump r

The justices upheld a lower court's ruling that nullified a voter-passed amendment to the state constitution that would have legalized recreational use.

The South Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling that nullified a voter-passed amendment to the state constitution that would have legalized recreational marijuana use. Gov. Kristi Noem instigated the legal fight to strike down the amendment passed by voters in November. The high court sided with those arguments in a 4-1 decision, ruling that the measure — Amendment A — would have violated the state’s requirement that constitutional amendments deal with just one subject.

A federal raid on a small household marijuana garden on tribal land in northern New Mexico is sowing confusion and resentment about U.S. drug enforcement priorities on Native American lands, as more states roll out legal marketplaces for recreational pot.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter says she will quit the real estate appraiser business following scrutiny over whether her mother used her influence to aid her application for an appraiser license.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's daughter on Tuesday said she would quit the real estate appraiser business following scrutiny over whether her mother used her influence to aid her application for an appraiser license. Noem's daughter, Kassidy Peters, slammed a legislative inquiry and news reporting on the episode in a letter to Secretary of Labor Marcia Hultman. Lawmakers were zeroing in on the timeline of a meeting Noem called last year that included Peters and key decision-makers in a government agency that had moved days earlier to deny her application for an upgrade to her appraiser certification.

Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who was first elected to the Senate in 1974, said Monday he will not seek reelection next year.

South Dakota lawmakers have moved to subpoena a document and a former state employee at the center of questions about whether Gov. Kristi Noem used her influence to aid her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license.

South Dakota lawmakers moved Monday to subpoena a document and a former state employee at the center of questions about whether Gov. Kristi Noem used her influence to aid her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license. The Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee is pressing for details about a meeting the governor called last year that included her daughter, Kassidy Peters, and key decision-makers in a government agency that had moved days earlier to deny Peters' application for an upgrade to her appraiser certification. The subpoenas, however, are not finalized.

COVID-19 and state abortion restrictions like a near-ban that took effect in Texas in September have people with unwanted pregnancies increasingly considering getting abortion pills by mail.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis is urging residents to get COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots as the state sees a virus spike. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths have all been on the rise for weeks in Colorado. (Nov. 12)

South Dakota lawmakers are readying to issue a subpoena on Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration to hand over a document regarding her daughter's attempt to win a state appraisal license.

South Dakota lawmakers are pressing Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration to hand over a document that could prove whether there was a plan in place to give her daughter another chance to win a real estate appraiser license prior to a meeting last year that has spurred conflict-of-interest questions. The Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee is readying to initiate a subpoena on Monday if the Department of Labor and Regulation doesn't hand over a signed agreement between the governor’s daughter, Kassidy Peters, and state regulators. Peters won her appraiser certification after a state agency moved to deny it last year.

Jason Ravnsborg pleaded no contest in August to a pair of misdemeanors in the crash that killed 55-year-old Joseph Boever.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem contradicted her own labor secretary Thursday about a meeting last year in her office, saying it didn't include any discussion about how her daughter could still win a real estate appraiser license after a state agency moved to deny it. The Republican governor answered questions from South Dakota reporters on the episode for the first time Thursday, more than a month after The Associated Press first reported on it. While a Republican-dominated legislative committee and state government ethics board have looked into the matter, she called AP's reporting on the meeting “twisted” and “manipulated.”

South Dakota lawmakers are taking a look at a state agency that has been at the center of questions of whether Gov. Kristi Noem used her influence to aid her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license.

With the governor of Texas leading the charge, conservative Republicans in several states are moving to block or undercut President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private employers before the regulations are even issued.

South Dakota's Government Accountability Board usually draws little attention, but it's now in the spotlight.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is defending her administration’s handling of her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license.

South Dakota Republican and Democratic legislators say they want more details from Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration on a meeting last year that included the governor, her daughter and state employees overseeing an agency that had moved to deny her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser.

The South Dakota attorney general says he is reviewing concerns from state lawmakers over a meeting Gov. Kristi Noem held last year that included both her daughter and a state employee who was overseeing her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser.

Ethics experts are questioning whether South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had a conflict of interest by meeting with her daughter and top state officials last year in the governor's office while her daughter was pursuing a real estate certification.

Connecticut and a handful of other states have recently decided to mandate students be taught about Native American culture and history.

Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call for civil disobedience to block his new vaccination mandates.

Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call for civil disobedience to block his new vaccination mandates.

Almost instantly after most abortions were banned in Texas, Democrats were decrying the new law as unconstitutional, an assault on women’s health that must be challenged.

Almost instantly after most abortions were banned in Texas, Democrats were decrying the new law as unconstitutional, an assault on women’s health that must be challenged.

A judge has ordered no jail time for South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg in a crash that killed a pedestrian last year, instead fining him $500 on each of two misdemeanor counts.

A prosecutor says South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea deal on misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash last year in which he hit and killed a man who was walking near a rural highway.

The South Dakota Supreme Court is weighing whether to unseal a search warrant and affidavits in an investigation into billionaire banker-turned-philanthropist T.

Crowds of bikers are rumbling their way towards western South Dakota, raising fears that COVID-19 infections will be unleashed among the 700,000 people expected to show up at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she has no plans to ratchet up her messaging to urge people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Republicans are responding with hostility to new masking guidance from public health officials.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s whirlwind tour of the U.S. border with Mexico on Monday was filled with climbing into military vehicles, visiting with troops and positioning herselfas tough on an issue that's sure to loom large in 2024 presidential debates.

A shortage of jet fuel, coupled with supply chain issues and an urgent demand from firefighting aircraft, continues to cause problems at airports around the West.

Long before the first presidential nomination contest of 2024, most potential Republican candidates are just getting a sense of the political landscape, tiptoeing through early-voting states and trying to make friends in key places.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson leads a state that went heavily for Donald Trump in the 2020 election.