The past eight years have been marked by disagreements over executive power, court battles and budget compromises.

Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer ...

South Carolina’s state legislature is one of 17, mainly in heavily Republican states, that is moving to handcuff state ...

H.B. 1471 seeks to define 'domestic terrorist organizations' in Florida, garnering controversy about its application to First Amendment rights.

Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed a state-run graduate student loan program that would replace federal loans for a number of professions.

Under the proposal, Iowa businesses, schools and government entities would be prohibited from denying services, access, employment or benefits based on whether a person has received vaccinations ...

The Department of Homeland Security has been ensnared by a partial government shutdown as Congress did not act to fund the agency by the end of Friday. But nearly all DHS workers will remain on the ...

An en banc appeals panel heard arguments over where individuals can carry guns and who can get their 2A rights reinstated.

Intersex Texans fear House Bill 229, which defines gender based on the reproductive system, could increase surgeries on intersex children and create challenges to obtaining sex changes on government ...

Iowa lawmakers have advanced Gov. Kim Reynolds' bill barring local policies protecting trans and nonbinary people from ...

It’s hard to predict how the flurry of mid-decade political redistricting will affect the House partisan balance this election year. The betting now is that it might yield Republicans a one- or ...

Last month, a state appeals court overturned the felony conviction of a Lewis County resident found guilty of voting twice in November 2022 — once in Washington and once in Oregon. In a 2-1 decision, ...