The vice president, long a skeptic of US military intervention, is the rare figure in the administration who can appeal to both the realist and hawkish wings of the GOP.

Go. Mike Kehoe signed legislation to ban the foreign funding of ballot issue campaigns, making Missouri the ninth state to do so in the past year.

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has lost his bid to thwart a Kansas law banning foreign actors from funneling money into state-level ballot initiatives.