Twelve House incumbents from Texas are set to leave Congress after this year, with the possibility of additional turnover in the May runoffs and November general election.

Ken Paxton speaks during 2024 AmericaFest in Phoenix. Texas' Republican Senate runoff is getting ugly. And we're guessing it may get a whole lot uglier.

Washington has a talent for transforming insignificant procedural votes into events that have an impact on politics as a whole. On a recent afternoon inside a committee room on Capitol Hill, lawmakers ...

A taxpayer-funded commission that the legislature is looking to for advice on energy policy would be exempt from Kentucky’s Open Records Act under a bill that a Senate committee approved Wednesday.

The series of laws, called the Readmission Acts, also barred states from constitutionally disenfranchising people convicted of crimes that were considered common law at the time. Under current law, ...

A measure introduced by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird requiring DNA samples to be taken from people arrested on felony or violent aggravated misdemeanor charges — before they are convicted of the ...

Oklahoma County commissioner calls for audit, dissolution of jail trust ...

Texas Sen. John Cornyn is reversing course on his long-standing support for the Senate filibuster in an attempt to push through a President Donald Trump-backed voter ID bill while embattled in a ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State investigators began searching a secluded ranch in New Mexico on Monday where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once entertained guests amid allegations that the ...

Given everything that has happened since Donald Trump returned to power last January, you could hardly be blamed if you were unaware that Merrick Garland—whom Barack Obama unsuccessfully nominated to ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein joined 18 of his fellow governors in signing a letter calling for Congress to assert control over federal tariffs from President Donald Trump.

Los Angeles leaders are looking at the city’s ballooning legal tab and asking a blunt question: Why keep paying top dollar to ...