Members of Congress have repeatedly introduced bills to ensure the federal employees who control air traffic and conduct airport security screenings get paid during government shutdowns

Texas AG positions himself as the grassroots favorite in the runoff election.

Organizers of Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstrations across the country predict Saturday's rallies against President Donald Trump could add up to one of the largest protests in U.S. history

A federal judge has ruled that the immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” must provide people detained there with better access to their attorneys

The California attorney general and a voting right groups have launched two legal challenges to halt a ballot seizure by a Republican sheriff in Riverside County

Long-serving Missouri Republican Rep. Sam Graves has decided not to run for reelection

An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether California and Maine violate female inmates’ rights by housing them with transgender women

President Donald Trump turned an otherwise serious Cabinet meeting into a long Sharpie story, arguing that it shows how he saves government money

A Republican-led initiative to repeal Utah's voter-approved anti-gerrymandering standards has failed to make the November ballot

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in France to meet his Group of Seven counterparts after President Donald Trump attacked NATO over a reluctance or refusal to take part in the Iran war

A federal judge is weighing Fulton County’s demand that the FBI return ballots and records from the 2020 election that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse

Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two reside...

A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference

The House Ethics Committee is holding a rare public hearing into alleged ethics violations by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s photo voter ID law, setting aside claims by civil rights groups that discrimination against Black and Latino voters warrants striking it down

The Education Department will relocate from its Washington headquarters as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency, officials said Thursday

New U.S. Census Bureau population estimates show that U.S. growth in metro areas slowed sharply as immigration dropped and hurricanes pushed people out of some Gulf Coast counties

New Jersey is the latest state to limit when law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, can wear face coverings

An appeals court has ruled that the U.S. can continue to detain immigrants without bond

The Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with an immigration policy that has been used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and whether the Trump administration should be able to revive it

A Missouri court has upheld a mid-decade redistricting plan that gives Republicans a chance to win an additional congressional seat in this year’s midterm elections

A Georgia judge has granted a bond of just $1 for a murder charge faced by a woman accused by police of taking pills to induce an illegal abortion

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump’s decision to order federal immigration agents to U.S. airports to help with security is drawing concerns that their presence may escalate tensions among air travelers and screeners