While most Americans have lost faith in lawmakers on Capitol Hill, a healthy majority still trusts their local government, according to a new poll. Gallup's annual trust in government institutions and actors poll found that 67 percent of respondents have a "great" or "fair amount" of faith in local government, while just 32 percent say...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) slammed Republicans on Friday for invoking House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) cancer diagnosis as a reason not to vote for him for Speaker and noted they only raised the concern once Scalise had already clinched the conference's nomination for the role. “I’m dumbfounded that GOP Members (& Trump!) used Steve...
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in Times Square Friday after the former leader of Hamas called for Muslims to rally in support of the militant group as its war with Israel entered its seventh day.
The parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 17-year-old who killed four students in a 2021 Michigan shooting, are asking a judge to let them leave jail to attend their son’s sentencing hearing in December. The parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to their son’s case and lost an appeal last...
Republican Indiana state Rep. Donna Schaibley has announced that she will not seek re-election next year, retiring after a decade at the Statehouse in Indianapolis.
The House of Representatives is adjourning for the weekend after selecting House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan as their second speaker-elect in three days.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday signed into law a bill guaranteeing more compensation in child sex abuse cases involving the Boy Scouts of America.
Officials at the federal, state and local levels have agreed to invest $450 million into a dredging project aimed at clearing contaminated sediment from Milwaukee's waterways.