The Trump administration has always supported giving students a choice in their education, but its recent budget proposal has baffled supporters of charter schools who fear that shifting the money allotted for starting them to block grants may doom new charters.
Fracking is a dirty word as far as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is concerned, but those in the oil-and-gas industry warn that life without hydraulic fracturing would be far grubbier.
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, helped kick off Thursday’s proceedings at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference by saying that CPAC represents the starting gun for this year’s presidential campaign.
President Trump heads into the Conservative Political Action Conference this week enjoying some of the best approval ratings of his presidency and poised to get a major shot in the arm from thousands of conservative activists, who are working overtime to air Mr. Trump’s grievances and excommunicate Republicans who step out of line.
The winner-take-all systems used in Texas and dozens of other states awarding electoral college votes to one presidential candidate is legal, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
With 10 legislative days to go before three key provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expires, reform plans are up in the air on Capitol Hill after Democrats on Wednesday abruptly halted a key hearing on the legislation.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is calling for an investigation into President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell, accusing him of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Advocacy groups across the political divide are joining to push Congress to change national security policy involving the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and decisions about how to wage war.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Wednesday morning that she’s comfortable with Sen. Sanders potentially securing the Democratic nomination, even as some her more moderate members push back against his candidacy.
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Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany sought to conquer the world, with Humphrey Bogart standing up to the fascist regime in “Casablanca” and director Ernst Lubitsch mocking it and its dictator in “To Be or Not to Be.”
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday came out in full support of allowing most people in the state to carry a firearm in public without a background check or training.
President Trump is a "monster truck" ready to steamroll over whichever Democrat emerges from the presidential primaries, Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday, sending thrills through the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Thursday that he wants to “make the truth be known” at his fraud trial in Paris. Fillon is facing charges after he used public funds to pay his wife and children for work they allegedly never performed.
When black voters in South Carolina consider Bernie Sanders, they don't tend to think of him as the potential first Jewish president. But his distinctive take on Jewish values is still a key part of his appeal.
Wisconsin’s latest mass shooting, which left six people dead at one of the world’s largest breweries, appears to have done little in the politically polarized state to budge Republicans who expanded access to guns over the past decade.
A frequent Rhode Island political candidate and activist died in a car crash that occurred after he had a likely heart attack while he was driving home from testifying at the State House.
A British judge refused Thursday to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange move from a glass-enclosed dock and sit with his lawyers during a London court hearing on whether he should be extradited to the United States.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged party unity Thursday, but would not say if superdelegates should back the party's front-runner heading into the convention in July.
Two state policies that stopped some refugees and children of immigrants from getting driver's licenses in Ohio have been struck down by a federal judge.
“Amnesty,” Scribner, by Aravind Adiga
El Salvador's congress has passed a law allowing judges to reduce sentences for crimes committed during the country's 1980-1992 civil war, drawing criticism from the president and rights activists.
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is joining U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a public service announcement aimed at getting New Yorkers of all backgrounds, including immigrants, to participate in the once-a-decade head count.
A father who had just put his children on a school bus was arrested last week by Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents near Portland, officials said.
