House lawmakers have requested billions of dollars for special community funding projects, or earmarks, whose approval hinges ...

Pennsylvania needs reform in all kinds of areas, of course. For example, important bills with strong bipartisan and public support can’t even get to a vote if party bosses don’t approve. And lobbyists ...

Experts say the unprecedented wave of proposals to honor a sitting president resembles practices in authoritarian regimes ...

The Senate’s decision signals another potential standoff with Gov. Greg Abbott, who vetoed a similar ban earlier this year as ...

The Democratic National Committee's “Organizing Summer” will feature events in all 50 states, beginning with Alaska, Texas, ...

The Palisades fire destroyed homes and communities. Can these former residents reconstruct their lives in a retirement home?

President Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are making slow progress toward a deal to clear some of the Senate’s backlog of ...

An Alabama lawmaker has prefiled a bill that would set a statewide standard for reporting and disciplining school threats.

The bill was authored by 26-year-old representative Caroline Fairly, representing Amarillo, who says she has firsthand ...

Ventrella’s law has the support of Attorney General Liz Murrill, who is currently prosecuting a New York doctor accused of ...

Overwhelming bipartisan passage of $488 billion in federal funding masked a bigger fight ahead over funding the rest of the ...

The redrawn map shifts around voters in Austin, Houston, North Texas and the Rio Grande Valley in hopes of creating five more Republican seats in the U.S. House.