Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed making child rapists eligible for the death penalty and reducing the number of jurors required to dole out capital punishment.
The U.S. announced another $2.5 billion in military aid for Ukraine on Thursday, bringing the total security assistance to $26.7 billion since Russia invaded.
In a 4-1 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a state law that prevents local officials from implementing restrictions on gun and ammunition sales.
The Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office has gathered 366 UFO sightings over the past two years, intelligence officials wrote in a report to Congress.
President Joe Biden said that “we cannot wall ourselves off from shared problems” at a summit with the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Tuesday.
President Biden said Tuesday that he was surprised to learn classified documents were discovered in his private office at the Penn Biden Center.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., made amends on Sunday after a tense encounter on the House floor during chaotic speaker votes on Friday evening.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott fired back at the White House after a spokesman for President Biden criticized the busing of migrants to the nation’s capital on Christmas Eve.
Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a scathing dissent of the majority’s opinion to indefinitely keep Title 42 in place.
The Supreme Court temporarily halted the termination of Title 42 on Tuesday and will hear a challenge from Republican-led states in February.
A spokesperson for Mike Pence said the former vice president did not file a statement of candidacy to run in the 2024 presidential election.
Democratic senators wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security chief expressing “deep concerns” about the end to Title 42, which expires on Dec. 21.
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Harris County can count more than 2,000 votes that were cast during an extended period of voting on Election Day.
Democratic Emilia Sykes defeated Republican Madison Gesiotto Gilbert in the race for Ohio’s 13th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press.
Paul Pelosi is making “steady progress on what will be a long recovery process” after being attacked in his home, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited husband at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Sunday, two days after he was assaulted in their home.
Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, the former partner of David DePape, who allegedly attacked Pelosi, is in prison for stalking and attempting to abduct a 14-year-old boy from his school in Berkeley, California.
Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to Boston University President Robert Brown requesting information about recent COVID-19 research at the school.
Planned Parenthood is opening a mobile abortion center in southern Illinois to provide care to patients from neighboring states where the practice is illegal.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign said that two volunteers were assaulted while they were knocking on doors in a Houston suburb on Saturday.
Liz Cheney told a crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday that she is unsure whether she would prefer for Democrats to hold their majority in the House.
Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Saturday that he doesn’t regret confronting Gov. Abbott and other officials after the Uvalde shooting in May.
Texas Democrat candidate for governor Beto O’Rourke blamed Biden and other Democrats for disregarding the Latino vote and pushing the demographic to the right.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Fox News Digital that inflation, education, and the border crisis are at the top of voters’ minds ahead of the midterm elections.
During a discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Hillary Clinton compared former President Donald Trump’s event in Ohio last weekend to a Nazi rally.
A Texas judge dismissed a lawsuit that the State Bar of Texas filed earlier this year against Brent Webster, a top aide to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin’s son was a victim of fraud related to the Paycheck Protection Program, the Democratic lawmaker told reporters on Monday.
The United States would defend Taiwan if China launched “an unprecedented attack,” President Joe Biden told 60 Minutes in an interview that aired Sunday.
Parent advocacy groups gathered outside a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Virginia on Tuesday to protest against critical race theory in schools.
The Department of Justice said Monday that it supports the appointment of Raymond Dearie, a former chief federal judge in New York, to be special master.