Sen. Ryan Weld has spearheaded legislation to remove marital exemptions for sexual abuse in the West Virginia legislature; a move critics say is long overdue.

A summary of an internal review of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin secret hospitalization found there was no "ill intent" from the Pentagon.

Colorado Democrats, in an 8 to 3 committee vote, blocked a bill that would have required a 4-year minimum sentence for child prostitution crimes.

Democrats are on the offensive to win back the House majority after Alabama's conservative Supreme Court ruled that embryos are considered children.

Rev. Steve Bland Jr. remembers the massive get-out-the-vote effort he helped mobilize four years ago, when pastors and community leaders spread out across Detroit neighborhoods, made phone calls and worked around the clock to encourage people to vote.