For about two hours on Wednesday, the 2025-26 state budget had a $30 million hole that would prove difficult to fix after ...

Amanda K. Edwards says the stakes are high as she campaigns to represent Texas District-18, with a special election set for November 4th following the deaths of the last two leaders.

U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) speaks at the Graves County Republican Party Breakfast at WK&T Technology Park in Mayfield, Ky., on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. Ryan C. Hermens [email protected] ...

Trump's return to power at the White House in January has left uncertainty for the criminal justice reform movement to legalize marijuana.

Turner said he got the idea from the Rev. Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, whose church also ...

"BOY oh boy, you just can’t catch a break between the FAKE NEWS and young men wielding canes," Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tennessee, said in response to the backlash.

Politicians and civil servants who served in AmeriCorps argue that the Trump administration’s sharp cuts to the agency ...

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Durbin is largely credited with starting the movement to ban indoor smoking with legislation that prohibited it on airplane ...

Record numbers of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native women are serving in state legislatures this year, but remain ...