The question has loomed over Democrats and their allies since Donald Trump was elected to a second term: Do party leaders and ...

Including states without female majorities leading the state legislatures, 15 of 50 states have female state senate ...

For the first time in 40 years, Democrats controlled every key position in Lansing. That era ended with a whimper during last ...

This week’s events were a preview of the perils of governing that face Trump and Republicans in Congress, despite their ...

The past week provides a preview of what spending battles could be like in a closely divided Congress and with warring GOP factions.

The president-elect who is 78 years old is slated to be the oldest president in U.S. history when he's inaugurated next month ...

Mike Johnson can’t keep his conference together and Trump can’t scare them into submission. Can the GOP be governed?

United States history is riddled with events we half-remember that changed entire nations. Woods makes those real.

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., teed up votes on two California district judges, and they were likely to be the ...

Johnson abandoned that legislation earlier this week after first Elon Musk, then President-elect Donald Trump opposed it. But ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Veering toward a midnight Friday government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson proposed a new plan that ...