Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving toward authorizing a potential lawsuit against President Barack Obama on immigration, House Speaker Joh...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York state Assembly debated Tuesday on how to select their next leader — even though their current one, longt...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf held an impromptu reception Tuesday for parents of children who are suffering daily from debilitating seizures an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is sending clear signs about an expected run for the presidency in 2016. The first-term Republican lawmaker...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have gotten much of the attention in these early days of the Republican race for president, but as they court ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a $1.1 billion increase in education spending in New York, along with changes to a teacher evaluat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate acknowledged Wednesday that climate change is real but refused to say humans are to blame. The seri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Not another test! The lament of many schoolchildren was echoed across a congressional hearing room as senators began working on a lo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican critic of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy is pushing new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear progra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service said Sunday that multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Bi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain is waging another national campaign — this time, to define his legacy. After two unsuccessful presidential bids, th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House is moving quickly to revive a lapsed government program that’s credited with restoring the market fo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday waded into a controversy over revelations that the House’s No. 3 Republican spoke to a white supremacist g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s determined efforts to combat global warming face their biggest trial yet as Republicans take full control o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner’s prospects for a new term appeared secure Monday despite grumblings from tea party-aligned dissidents on...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pledged on Wednesday to do all he can to stop President Barack Obama’s coal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tumultuous 2014 is not even in the books, and already the shape of 2015 looms. The new year promises more war, when the plan was for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shadowy outside groups broadcast an estimated $25 million worth of political ads on local TV stations with a goal of shaping state-l...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — The conventional wisdom in the Republican Party is changing. Less than two years ago, party leaders solemnly declared after an...