A former senior advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense writes that we still need the filibuster. The Senate will ...

A program that allowed temporary status for undocumented immigrants is now on hold after multiple states filed a lawsuit against it.

A ceremony will cap a history marked by legal tussles, a secret training, resignations, a deal with a serial killer and raw ...

Florida rushed to include the gun-buying age restriction in a school-safety bill after Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, ...

A federal appeals court next month will hear arguments in the National Rifle Association’s constitutional challenge to a ...

On Friday, the Election Department of the Harris County Clerk's Office released its polling location map on the Harris Votes ...

Surveys show that a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government. One found that 10% of ...

Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in this fall's presidential election, but the potential for noncitizens to register ...

Increasingly restrictive laws, high-stakes court decisions and a new world of women’s healthcare — the past four years have ...

A number of influential religious groups have filed a lawsuit against the IRS over the Johnson Amendment, which bans ...

Democrats say voting rights are under attack, and that they will protect them if they win this year's elections. Here's what ...