Here's a look back at the most noteworthy stories that took place in and around La Jolla throughout 2025 — big and small.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani isn't even in office yet, but many Staten Island lawmakers are concerned and ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. But all this ...

Following the United States Supreme Court's decision to reject Texas' lawsuit to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory, the chairman of the state's Republican party suggested leaving the ...

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School districts in a growing number of U.S. states are trying to break off from existing districts. These "seceding" areas, as experts refer to the practice, tend to be wealthier and whiter than the ...

The Issue: Staten Island politicians renewing calls for the borough to secede from New York City. Secession is not the best option for Staten Island (“NYC-Ya!” Aug. 31). As an independent county, we ...

The Balkinization site is running a symposium on two important new books on secession: Timothy William Waters's Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale ...

How the Mackinac Bridge, environmental rules and economic conditions fueled a 1975 push to make the Upper Peninsula the 51st state.