Texas Republicans are planning to escalate their efforts to end a weeklong holdout by Democrats if they don’t return to the ...

The White House is conceding that a major project it has undertaken to keep an invasive fish out of the Great Lakes has ...

Most members of the House Democratic Caucus fled the state this week in an attempt to stall a Trump-ordered gerrymander. We tried to talk to the few who stayed.

Texas Democrats are gearing up for another day of defiance against Gov. Greg Abbott and the state GOP as they try to move ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with legislative business, including redistricting.

With Illinois now being home to the highest property tax rates in the country, state Rep. Dan Ugaste is pushing legislation ...

(The Center Square) – The Texas House of Representatives has sued 33 House Democrats who absconded to Illinois to prevent a vote on Congressional redistricting efforts in the Lone Star State.

A hallmark of the New Right, the slice of the conservative movement most fervently in Trump’s corner, is the aggressive use of political power to benefit friends and punish foes.

Texas pursues legal action to enlist Illinois assistance in apprehending Texas state Democratic lawmakers hunkered down in ...

More than 50 Democratic legislators left Texas to block a GOP effort to redraw congressional lines. Abbott said he'll find ...

Unit 371 at Illinois Masonic Hospital was a major treatment center for AIDS which inspired similar wards in Chicago and across the country.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says ...