House Speaker Mike Johnson's new proposal to update laws for government spying got a big thumbs-down from civil liberties advocates who say it does not do enough to protect Americans' privacy rights.
The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation.
The gerrymandered congressional district lines approved by Virginia voters Tuesday could be erased by the state's judicial system, which is weighing multiple court challenges to the new map.
A sprawling federal indictment accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center of using millions in donor funds to covertly pay informants linked to white supremacist groups and neo-Nazis.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate Republican in a purple Pennsylvania district, says he'd leave the GOP if the state conducted open primary elections.
