Illinois members of congress are reacting after former Illinois speaker of the house, Michael Madigan, was sentenced to 7.5 ...

Madigan, 83, who for years was widely hailed as the most powerful politician in the state, was convicted on bribery ...

Months before a federal judge sentenced former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to prison on Friday, the once-mighty state Democratic Party chairman took the witness stand in his corruption ...

Gov. Wes Moore’s response to the region’s squatter crisis sharply contrasts with what critics describe as a full-blown war ...

Newsom’s barrage of attacks have left many demoralized Democrats hoping this is the anti-Trump leader they’ve been waiting ...

Melissa Hortman’ s influence at the Minnesota Capitol and her power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply ...

At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas, students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities and fears for international students’ safety.

In the wake of a wide-ranging gun-control law signed by Gov. Maura Healey last July, opponents of that legislation collected ...

In North Carolina, it was a lawsuit over the state’s voter registration records. In Arizona and Wisconsin, it was a letter to ...

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they ...

House Republicans advanced a $21.9 billion K-12 school aid budget that would boost per-pupil funding, cut free school lunches ...

DACA, a program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to build stable lives and contribute to ...