Topic: Politics

By Chris Van Buskirk BOSTON (Boston Globe) — State Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian’s swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, March 25 was by all accounts a sign of the daily abnormalities brought on by the coronavirus. Gov. Charlie Baker[...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Black lawmakers in South Carolina are calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to disavow statements from a longtime friend and campaign surrogate that they say are racist. About half of the 45-member Legislative[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has dismissed the director of the National Security Service. Pashinian told a news conference on September 16 he had signed a motion for Artur Vanetsyan’s removal from office,[...]

By Robert D. McFadden NEW YORK (New York Times) — Robert M. Morgenthau, a courtly Knickerbocker patrician who waged war on crime for more than four decades as the chief federal prosecutor for Southern New York State and as Manhattan’s[...]

By Lila Seidman GLENDALE (Glendale News-Press) — Glendale City Council member Zareh Sinanyan is stepping down from his municipal post to accept a position with the Armenian government. Sinanyan, first elected to the local council in[...]

By Michael Melkonian Special to the Mirror-Spectator LOS ANGELES — Johnny Nalbandian, a seafood industry baron and longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, is facing off against Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA-28). Schiff has represented the[...]

By Taleen Babayan Special to the Mirror-Spectator UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — The seeds of political activism were planted in Nvair Beylerian at a young age. Waking up one Saturday morning as a 7-year-old, she spotted her Armenian dance[...]