The 75-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ended Thursday when House Republicans passed the exact bill they had spent 10 weeks refusing to accept. The measure funds TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service through September. It does...
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Wednesday to sharply limit the Voting Rights Act’s power to protect minority voters from discriminatory redistricting. By the time the ruling was an hour old, Florida Republicans had passed a new congressional map designed to flip...
Republicans have spent months trying to pass the SAVE Act, the bill that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It has stalled in the Senate. Trump renewed his call this week to eliminate the filibuster and force it...
The Department of Homeland Security has been partially shut down since mid-February. Ten weeks later, Republicans still cannot agree on how to reopen it. Congressional leaders returned to Washington Monday facing what one outlet called a “nightmare week,”...
The Justice Department dropped its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday. The probe, which was opened in January, had centered on cost overruns in a renovation of two historic Fed buildings in Washington. The project originally...
Virginia voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment on April 21, giving the Democratic-controlled state legislature authority to draw new congressional maps before the November midterms. The measure passed 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent, out of roughly 2.5...
