Cruz and Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell held a news conference Monday with some of the victims' families to urge Congress to ...

Lawmaker faults Republicans for striking defense authorization provisions she authored to address Confederate military names.

House Republican leadership is hoping to pass a health care plan this week. But it could hit some major speed bumps along the ...

The House is set to vote on a bill from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene designed to protect children from transgender procedures.

Mills announced her decision in an op-ed in the Press Herald Monday, citing recent actions of the Trump administration.

An agreement between moderate Republicans and GOP leadership in the House to allow a vote on extending expiring Affordable ...

This Michigan tribe in the Upper Peninsula is finally close to getting justice for land stolen from them 150 years ago.

In the week since Texas’ new “bathroom bill” designed to target transgender people went into effect, some opponents of the ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing criticism — again. On Sunday, before making his remarks about a deadly ...

SB 78 does not ban technology in the classroom, it simply prohibits personal devices from being used. School-issued computers and other devices can still be used in the classroom. The bill also makes ...

Ten of the 21 Republicans who voted against redistricting in the Senate have their seats up for reelection next year. Why it ...

An entrenched senator distrusted by both parties. A governor born just 18 months after 79-year-old Donald Trump. An oyster farmer who for years walked around with a Nazi symbol tattoo. Anti-gay ...