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House Democrats on Thursday passed two bills that would impose stricter background checks on all commercial gun sales, marking the most sign...

Geraldo Rivera is considering running to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio Republican, the longtime media personality revealed We...

Former U.S. presidents rolled up their sleeves for the camera and urged Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in a one-minute spot fr...

HONG KONG (AP) - A Hong Kong court on Thursday granted bail to a fifth pro-democracy activist and former lawmaker but revoked bail for anoth...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday he wants to fight his legal battle against Twitter in Texas rather than in the San Francisc...

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that Floridians won’t have to pay fines for violating COVID-19-related ordinances. He and two other Republi...

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday prodded the Environmental Protection Agency to expand its enforcement actions to help President Biden’s...

The recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to outstrip expectations as organizers rocket past the signature threshold,...

The Biden administration’s still-evolving policy for dealing with the North Korean nuclear threat will loom large and may get some clarity a...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House has killed a bill that would have created a state Department of Tourism. Republican Lt. Gov. Del...

Former President Donald Trump urged football legend Herschel Walker on Wednesday to run for the Senate from Georgia in 2022 against newly el...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky lawmakers made changes Wednesday to a measure denounced by many media outlets as an attempt to weaken the ope...

A bill banning firearms at polling sites in Maryland is advancing in the state Legislature, and advocates say it is necessary to stop voter...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Police in southern Mexico said Wednesday they stopped two passenger buses loaded with a total of 210 Central American mig...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico lawmakers have advanced a bill that would allow people convicted for crimes committed as minors to have a p...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of migrant children and families seeking to cross the U.S. southwest border has surged to levels not seen since...

House Democrats are inundating the Senate with a series of partisan bills on issues such as expanding mail-in voting, terminating qualified...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the w...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As he ended Texas’ coronavirus restrictions Wednesday over the objections of public health officials, Republican Gov. G...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Attorney General Josh Kaul worked Wednesday to persuade Republican lawmakers to hand him nearly $925,000 to upgrade cri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed Marcia Fudge to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, placing the longtime Ohio l...

DENVER (AP) - Colorado's Democrat-led Senate has passed a bill that would require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms to law enforc...

Conservative watchdog group Americans for Public Trust is attacking Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in a new six-figure ad buy for his al...

BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand is considering an expansion of prison space as it arrests more political prisoners, the justice minister said Wednes...

House Democrats on Wednesday requested FBI Director Christopher A. Wray hold a private briefing on allegations that White supremacists have...