After weeks of controversy over many Cabinet nominations, Congress begins hearings over Donald Trump's appointments.

As President-elect Donald Trump gears up for his unprecedented second term, all eyes turn to the upcoming confirmation hearings for over a dozen of his Cabinet nominees. This critical process will ...

Anti-immigrant state officials and federal judges would have new power to dictate immigration enforcement– including whether ...

Climate and clean energy drew Inslee's intense focus, while critics point to the state's troubles in education, homelessness ...

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago.

A showdown will unfold in the Texas House where the first order of business after representatives take the oath of office will be selecting a new speaker.

Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland's uprightness rescued the Department of Justice from Donald Trump's grip. But then he handed it ...

Her office is staffing up and adding people to divisions expected to tackle issues on which Trump has pledged to pursue ...

Pennsylvania's senior senator was elected as a progressive Democrat. His normalization of Donald Trump is the epitome of a ...

Donald Trump’s second term will empower the White Christian nationalist movement, says scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author ...

I am somewhat surprised (but encouraged) by the outpouring of respect and general sense of mourning many people in this ...