Former President Barack Obama condemned a Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Louisiana congressional district as an illegal racial gerrymander, calling it an attack on minority voting rights.
Senate Democrats failed Thursday to peel off a single Republican vote in their sixth consecutive attempt to curb President Donald Trump's war powers in Iran, one day before the 60-day War Powers Act deadline expires.
President Trump nominated Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be the next US Surgeon General after the previous pick, Casey Means, failed to receive Senate support.
President Donald Trump called Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday and pressed him to redraw the state's congressional maps, a move that could eliminate the state's only Democratic House seat, held by Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis.
Two Democratic Socialists of America-backed city councilmembers in Los Angeles are pushing a proposal that would allow noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, to vote in local elections.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a Houston-area "birth tourism” scheme that is allegedly responsible for more than a thousand American-born babies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced this week that the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will hold a hearing on the MK-Ultra program in May.
