The action is up for legal debate, but New Hampshire Democratic lawmakers said they want Biden to forge ahead anyway.

Virginia voters will begin the new year filling state Senate and House vacancies on Tuesday in a trio of special elections ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will introduce legislation to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow ...

Top elected Democrats at the New Hampshire State House are calling on President Joe Biden to certify and publish the 1970s-era Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

If you want to understand the health of American democracy, what happens in state legislatures matters just as much as what ...

Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., was reelected House Speaker on Jan. 3., receiving the bare minimum, 218 votes. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., was selected by his Republican colleagues as the Senate’s new majority ...

He will be sentenced on Jan. 10, shortly before his inauguration, but is unlikely to face jail time or other penalties.

Mike Johnson persuaded a pair of GOP skeptics to change votes, keeping the gavel in an era of Republican control in Washington.

U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy and U.S. Rep. Troy Downing, both Republicans, took their oaths of office Friday in their respective ...

For the first time in nearly a century, Hamilton County will have a Democrat in the top spot at the prosecutor's office.

Though a U.S. citizen mowed down revelers on Bourbon Street, experts say the incoming president sees political and policy ...

If you want to understand the health of American democracy, what happens in state legislatures matters just as much as what happens in Washington, D.C., and Mar-a-Lago.