Governor Mike Dunleavy said he was aware of Moscow’s plan to stage an independence referendum to reclaim Alaska, and promised to arrange a gold nugget for the visiting Ukrainian leader, in a phone call with Russian pranksters. The governor seemed honored to receive such a ‘high-profile’ call from none other than Ukrainian prime minister and the country’s ambassador to the US. Unsurprisingly,... 

Former Alaska Governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump on Tuesday before the latter’s rally in Iowa, at her own rally in Ames, two weeks before the Iowa caucus. “I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Palin said in a statement released by the Trump campaign. In a press release on Trump’s website, the campaign rubbed the endorsement in the...