Texas Gov. Greg Abbott urged "delinquent" state House Democrats to return to Austin on Friday as he called a second special legislative session that hinges on a controversial redistricting plan.

Texas Republicans ended a legislative session Friday without approving new congressional maps, but they still intend to satisfy President Donald Trump's wishes for redistricting that bolsters their party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as a multistate fight over control of Congress intensifies.

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in the middle of the decade to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses controlled by both parties.

U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war in Ukraine but also the fate of European security.

President Trump said he could talk business deals with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but only if he sees an end to the war in Ukraine.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is so obsessed with becoming president that he is trying to manipulate California voters while putting on a sad impression of President Donald Trump. Newsom’s press office on X is posting incessantly in the style of Trump’s social media postings, which is presumably supposed to be some satire of Trump’s communication style. The problem with leaning […]

Affordable housing and the cost of living continue to be top economic outlook issues for the future of Arizona’s prosperity, and onerous regulations are pushing the dream of home ownership further and further away for many young people.  According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s “Out of Reach” report, Arizona is the 14th priciest […]

Social Security field offices across the country may have lost a whopping 20 percent of their staff since March of last year, according to estimates by Axios and the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions. The unions estimated that field offices — where Americans can apply for benefits and deal with the agency...

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani said he spoke with former president Barack Obama about hope in politics after his New York City mayoral primary win in June.

Democratic lawmakers are pushing a joint resolution to put the kibosh on President Trump's use of the D.C. Metropolitan Police force for federal purposes.