The government shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, and the Senate won't meet until Monday.

Questions asked during a Supreme Court hearing last week suggest change is coming, but the extent seems to hinge on the ...

Thompson, first elected to the U.S. House in 1993, is Mississippi’s lone Black congressman. He has been the only Democrat in ...

The conservative justices signaled they could undercut the law's Section 2, which bars voting maps that would result in ...

The latest victims of the government shutdown are the Supreme Court, which ran out of funding on Saturday and the Capitol ...

A retention system for choosing Pennsylvania judges introduced nearly 60 years ago faces its biggest test when voters go to the polls on Nov. 4. Three incumbent Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania ...

The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where ...

Black lawmakers and voting rights advocates are expressing concern about a potential decline in minority political ...

The Supreme Court appeared poised this week to weaken one of the nation’s most powerful civil rights protections, as justices weighed whether Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black ...

The US Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit ...

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a ...

Supreme Court could deliver ‘catastrophic’ decision on Voting Rights Act and blow up protections from racial discrimination - ...