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Lawmakers hope to bring up legislation restoring voting rights to incarcerated people next month during veto session, but opponents of the bill, including the Illinois State Board of Elections, argue the proposed measure is unconstitutional.

Members of both parties have noted that Biden has asked Harris to take on often thankless issues, including abortion and immigration. But her meetings with activists in these areas have helped her to build political connections.

Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion, 10-year bill strengthening social safety net and climate programs through the House Budget Committee on Saturday, but one Democrat voted "no," illustra…

Icelanders voted Saturday in a general election dominated by climate change, with an unprecedented number of political parties likely to win parliamentary seats.

The outcome of Democrats' dual spending bills, with trillions of dollars in investments, could effectively be the denouement of the speaker's long and historic career.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Icelanders were voting Saturday in a general election dominated by climate change, with an unprecedented number of political parties likely to win parliamentary seats.

The Catholic Church apologized "unequivocally" on Friday to Canada's indigenous peoples for a century of abuses at church-run residential schools set up by the government to assimilate children into the mainstream.But indigenous leaders are still awaiting a mea culpa from the pope himself."We, the C...

In 1876, Douglass asked a white audience: "What does it all amount to, if the black man, after having been made free by the letter of your law, is unable to exercise that freedom?"

When Donald Trump lands in Georgia on Saturday to hold a rally for U.S. Senate Candidate Herschel Walker, he will not just be launching a cam

All the major contenders in the German elections are trying to present themselves in the same style and stability of Angela Merkel – the men included.

Pennsylvania's attorney general is suing to block a Republican-approved subpoena to state election officials in what Republicans call a "forensic…

We are now down to the crunch time on the Biden agenda....

I saw a few people questioning the Data for Progress poll I...

As legislative efforts to expand voting rights hit the brick wall of...

A new report evaluates elected officials in 25 state legislatures on their records on climate change policy.

Last Tuesday's gubernatorial recall election in California was the campaign that launched a thousand takes: It was a good sign for Democrats in 2022; it was a g…

The former President of the United States, still the leader of the GOP and supposed "kingmaker" to any Republican desperate for his endorsement, is doing his best to undermine the Democrats and President Joe Biden, and he's being criticized for it.In one of his many press releases that still do not ...

For many Black Americans, images of Border Patrol agents on horseback chasing down Haitian migrants reopened old but familiar wounds.

On Capitol Hill – among the Democrats alone since the Republicans have...

Ana-Maria Trasnea was 13 when she emigrated from Romania because her single, working mother believed she would have a better future in Germany. "It was hard...