Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump, accusing him of repeatedly demonstrating a lack of fitness for office by engaging in race baiting.
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A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment Friday against the Democratic political operative whom a state judge claims to have taken bribes from.
Read moreThe partisan divide on fundamental political values – including attitudes about race, immigration and the social safety net – reached record levels during Barack Obama’s presidency, but that gap has grown even wider in Donald Trump’s first year as president, according to a study released Thursday.
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House Democrats on Thursday asked for a federal investigation into Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s spending $25,000 on a soundproof booth for his office.
Read moreNews stories from outlets with a politically right-leaning audience are five times more likely to have a positive assessment of the Trump administration than stories from publications with a left-leaning or mixed audience, according to a Pew Research Center report released Monday.
Read moreA group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday urged a federal judge to invalidate President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and move forward with sentencing on criminal contempt charges.
Read moreWhile the nation watched as Hurricane Harvey dumped a biblical deluge upon Houston, officials in Texas quietly implemented a new bipartisan law that expands the kinds of knives Texans can legally carry.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday disputed a claim from congressional Democratic leaders that he agreed to a deal to protect people who were brought to the United States as children and remain in the country illegally.
Read moreThe majority of Americans in both political parties hold teachers and members of the military in high regard, but are starkly divided in their opinions of police and college professors, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.
Read moreSen. Bernie Sanders rode his impassioned liberal army of supporters through a tumultuous 2016, fighting to snatch the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. Now he’s disrupting the party anew, forcing Democrats to take sides over his plan to provide government-run health care for all.
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Wednesday he will support a deal between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump on a short-term package to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government.
Read moreDemocratic leaders say President Donald Trump has agreed to a plan to fund the government and increase the nation’s debt limit for three months as part of a deal to rush disaster aid to Hurricane Harvey victims.
Read moreDemocratic attorneys general want U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to rescind guidance sent to states that said should the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan take effect, compliance deadlines would be extended.
Read moreThe New York Post faces a libel suit after quoting an anonymous source as calling Judge Doris Ling-Cohan with the Manhattan Supreme Court “lazy.”
Read moreFiling suit Wednesday over the first voter-suppression law in New Hampshire, state Democrats say the legislation is a ham-fisted response to President Donald Trump’s loss there last year.
Read moreSixteen long-time Democratic employees of the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office claim they were unilaterally fired in January by the newly elected Republican secretary and replaced by members of the GOP.
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After suffering a significant setback in the courtroom, environmentalists dedicated to banning a pesticide linked to developmental impairment in children received good news Tuesday after a coalition of Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill aimed at banning the chemical.
Read moreSenate Democrats on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s environmental arm, calling out his past statements skeptical of climate change science and his unwillingness to directly answer their questions on the issue.
Read moreCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown joined Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris on Tuesday to speak out against the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the U.S. Senate’s version of a new health care bill.
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The man who brought an assault rifle to the pizzeria at the center of a sordid political conspiracy theory received a four-year federal prison sentence Thursday.
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