A Missouri judge has blocked many of the state's anti-abortion laws.

The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.

The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.

Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator Alcatraz."

Republicans in Congress have muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill to passage.

First lady Melania Trump visited sick patients at Children’s National hospital in Washington as the children made Fourth of July arts and crafts ahead of the holiday.

House Republicans have lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage.

It took 10 years, but Rhode Island politicians finally found a way to ban the sale, manufacturing and distribution of certain assault weapons.

House Republicans have propelled President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage.

President Donald Trump has gone to Iowa to kick off a year of patriotic festivities leading up to next year's 250th anniversary of American independence.

A stark disagreement over regulating AI in Republicans’ tax cut and spending bill is the latest tension among conservatives about whether to let states continue to put guardrails on emerging technologies or minimize such interference.

A man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14 says he's looking forward to the facts coming out.

Massachusetts once served as a model for what became the Obama-era health overhaul.

President Donald Trump has a new political foil: New York’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

The Trump administration has accused states and schools of using federal education grants to help fund “a radical leftwing agenda.”.

A newly released report from the CIA challenges the work intelligence agencies did to investigate Russia's support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

While the state says undocumented patients cost hospitals $329 million over three months, critics say the data lacks payment information and more context.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will meet at the White House on Thursday with Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, who was released in May.

A federal judge has ruled that an executive order by President Donald Trump suspending asylum access at the southern border is unlawful.

A federal lawsuit accuses President Donald Trump’s administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during an ongoing immigration crackdown that has put the region “under siege.”.

Roughly 11.8 million adults and kids will be at risk for losing health insurance if Republicans’ domestic policy package becomes a law.

Republican leaders in the House are sprinting toward a vote on President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package, determined to seize momentum from a hard-fought vote in the Senate while essentially daring members to defy their party’s leader and vote against it.

Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

President Donald Trump keeps saying that Republicans’ mega tax and spending cut legislation will eliminate taxes on federal Social Security benefits.

House Republicans strained through a day of starts and stops trying to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package.

Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer has announced a GOP primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month, says California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska convinced Senate leaders to change their massive tax and spending cuts package to benefit her state and eventually voted for the legislation, ensuring its passage.

The U.S. is halting some shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles have declined too much.

Arizona's top Democrats will bypass the state Democratic Party for next year’s midterms.

The Justice Department is ramping up efforts to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who commit crimes or pose a national security risk.

Republican businessman Nate Morris says Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is undeserving of a lifetime achievement award from their home state political party.

The University of Pennsylvania has changed three school records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

The Trump administration is withholding more than $6 billion in federal grants for after-school and summer programs, English language instruction, adult literacy and more.

At some 887 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

The sprawling Republican budget bill approved by the Senate Tuesday removes a proposed tax on solar and wind energy projects but quickly phases out tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy.

The TribCast gang is finally reunited, just in time to dive into the big cases and unresolved questions from the term.

The package includes $13.5 billion to reimburse states for border spending. It is expected to meet resistance in the House from some Texas Republicans.

Elon Musk’s feud with President Donald Trump has reignited, with the tech billionaire threatening to launch a new political party and Trump suggesting Musk could be punished for his opposition.

Elon Musk may find out what happens when DOGE bites man.

Senate Republicans have hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage on the narrowest of votes, pushing past opposition from Democrats and some in their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session.

A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

A budget deal brokered by Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans who control the state Legislature has cleared a key hurdle just hours after it was made public.

Medical program leaders want a ban on synthetic delta-8 THC, which makes up the bulk of consumable hemp products.

Democrat Colin Allred is once again running for the U.S. Senate.

Allred lost to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz last year by 8.5 points while outperforming the top of the ticket.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans “got the job done” in passing President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

Iowa has become the first state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code.

Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary.

President Donald Trump toured an isolated new immigration detention surrounded by alligator-filled swamps in Florida’s Everglades.

Texas’ attorney general alleged the City of Dallas and the fair were violating state law and the second amendment with the ban, which was adopted after a 2023 shooting.

Casting mailed ballots remained popular among voters in last year’s presidential election, even as President Donald Trump has tried to undercut the process through a wide-ranging executive order.

President Donald Trump is complaining about technical difficulties he experienced while trying to hold a conference call with faith leaders across the country.

A federal judge is questioning when the Trump administration will try to enforce its birthright citizenship executive order.

Lawyers for the Trump administration and immigrants are sparring in court over whether President Donald Trump can use an 18th century wartime act against a Venezuelan gang.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement over the weekend that he won't seek reelection is heating up the campaign on both sides of the aisle.

A Republican plan heading to a vote in the Senate would quickly end incentives for clean energy and impose new taxes on some wind and solar projects, while boosting production of coal used to make steel.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending U.S. sanctions on Syria, following through on a promise.

President Donald Trump’s administration has sued Los Angeles, claiming the city is obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws and creating a lawless environment.

Soon after Birdwell announced his retirement, state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, said he was running for the seat.

South Dakota’s lone member of the U.S. House, Dusty Johnson, has announced that he is entering the race to become South Dakota governor in the 2026 election.

No state may have more to lose than Georgia as Republicans in Congress look to gut federal subsidies that aid both the solar and electric vehicle industries.

President Donald Trump is planning to visit a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday.

Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska has announced he will not seek reelection next year.

The Trump administration has intensified its battle with Harvard University.

The Supreme Court will take up a Republican-led drive to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.

A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies.

Possible changes to President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts are being considered, though most of the amendments are expected to fail.

As federal pandemic aid ends and sales tax revenues cool, analysts say it could constrain the Texas Legislature in coming years. But they don’t see an immediate budget crisis on the horizon.

A North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills.

Court records show that the Trump administration has agreed to spare from deportation a key witness in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in exchange for his cooperation in the case.

The changes made to President Donald Trump’s big tax bill in the Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in health care coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis, adding to the challenges for Republicans as they try to muscle the bill to passage.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says he won't seek reelection.

Democrats and Republicans in northern Virginia have chosen candidates who will vie to replace the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly.

Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is the expected Democratic nominee for mayor in America’s most Jewish city and that's raising alarms among some in the New York's Jewish community.

The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride has reached its crescendo as New York and other major cities around the world hosted major parades and marches.

Elon Musk is doubling down on his distaste for President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts bill.

Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary.

Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke was joined at his San Antonio town hall by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro and state Rep. James Talarico, whose names have been floated for statewide office.

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman has been honored at a funeral where former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attended.

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a centrist Republican who represents Nebraska’s second district, will not seek reelection to a fifth term.

The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The contest coincides with the state’s November uniform election, when voters across Texas will already be at the polls to decide local offices and ballot measures.

A federal judge has struck down another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms.

The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration’s major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision limiting federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions threatens to upend numerous lawsuits that have led to orders blocking Trump administration policies.

Democratic efforts in the Senate to prevent President Donald Trump from further escalating with Iran have fallen short.

The Supreme Court delivered significant victories for President Donald Trump in its term that ended Friday.

Supreme Court justices lambasted each other's arguments in a ruling over an effort by the president to deny birthright citizenship to children born to immigrants.

The long-awaited vote survived objections from the panel’s most right-leaning Republicans, who criticized the lessons as “un-American woke indoctrination.”

World leaders are adapting strategies to manage U.S. President Donald Trump during his second term.

President Donald Trump is scoffing at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s heated warning to the U.S. not to launch future strikes on Iran and the Iranian supreme leader's assertion that Tehran “won the war” with Israel.

The decision, stemming from a 2022 lawsuit, narrows the public’s legal options to challenge Texas officials under the state’s open records law.

Republican efforts to loosen regulations on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns have been dealt a big setback.

Senate Republicans appear to have President Donald Trump’s big bill back on track after a flurry of last-minute revisions.

Senate Republicans have proposed cutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding by nearly half.

The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography by verifying people’s ages online.

The case involves a 2023 state law requiring adult websites to verify users’ ages, but the ruling is expected to have broader implications for free speech law.

The Supreme Court is putting off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall.

The California Legislature has approved a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities to close a $12 billion deficit.