Illinois voters have approved advisory referendums recommending a 3% income tax surcharge on millionaires. But those past efforts went nowehere, and the path forward for the proposal after voters ...

McBride would go on to forge a trail through a rapid series of firsts. During college, she became the first openly ...

The legislative potpourri included a swath of hyper-local bills, animal-focused legislation, and an 11th-hour bid to prevent ...

Constantine’s Wood Center in Oakland Park expects to soon close. It’ll conclude a chapter in the long-running story of a ...

Tester, now 68, has been instrumental in Congress for nearly 20 years: a negotiator on the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure deal, the leading force behind dramatically expanding veterans benefits ...

In the last 125 years, only one of the 21 Democrats serving North Carolina as governor faced the same challenge as Roy Cooper ...

Gaslighting: Fifth in a series about opposition to a wave of new natural gas pipelines, power plants and storage facilities ...

Who says the Senate doesn’t have its fair share of drama? The “world’s greatest deliberative body” was at the forefront of ...

The 81-year-old congresswoman’s situation reanimated a debate about the health and mental acuity of aging elected officials, ...

The last-ditch pleas come as Americans express concern about the future of the nearly 90-year-old safety ... in the Senate, the bill still needs to be brought up for a vote by the chamber's ...

Departing senators have spent the last few weeks taking their turns at bidding farewell to speaking on the Senate floor.