Texas lawmakers meet every other year, juggling their legislative duties with careers and personal lives. The Texas Newsroom’s Blaise Gainey continues his reporting profiles of our part-time ...

Rep. Helen Kerwin, 77, was elected in November to represent District 58 in the Texas House. While Kerwin was born in ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He was 93. Along with former ...

Protests erupted in the Tennessee House of Representatives on Tuesday over legislation that would allow public schools to bar migrant children without legal status from receiving an education.

At least eight Democrats will need to join with Republicans to move the funding package forward to avoid a partial government ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) surprised Washington Thursday by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding ...

State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst and state Rep. Austin Baeth confirmed they are all considering running for the seat.

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Members of the House Committee on Public Education clashed over the details of a school voucher bill — a topic that for the past couple of years has driven a wedge in the Republican Party and prompted ...

The documentary The Age of Disclosure sets out to do what countless films have done before: present proof that humans on ...

PALMER — A Holland resident was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the case of a 29-year-old Sturbridge man who had ...

Don McLaughlin isn’t shy about speaking his mind and has disagreed with victims’ families and fellow Republicans. Now he ...