With 2025 more than halfway done and a new fiscal year starting earlier this week, members of the House Democratic caucus ...

Earlier this year, the Virginia Supreme Court published five rules it would follow if tasked with redrawing the state’s legislative and congressional districts, a job that dropped in the justices’ ...

West Virginia’s “Private Outdoor Designated Areas,” or PODAs, are billed as tools for economic revitalization — letting adults carry alcoholic beverages in designated downtown areas. But in reality, t ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

The “presidential lean” of a state can, over time, tell us something about how it is trending.— Though 2004 and 2024 produced similar topline national results, there has been some significant change ...

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The court also separately has acted on an emergency basis in a number of cases involving challenges to President Donald Trump ...

People in some areas of the U.S. may want to stock up on their own sparklers, Roman candles and fountains, because the weather may put a damper on July Fourth fireworks displays.

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a series of cases to be decided during its next term, which begins in October, involving issues such as transgender rights, campaign finance law, gay "conversion ...

Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers ...