Suffrage

America's tradition of inaugural celebrations — and peaceful protests — is another casualty of the Trump era

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has spent much of his long career casting Israel's Arab minority as a potential fifth column led by terrorist sympathizers, is now openly...

Rioting is wrong, whether you think you're doing it to save black lives or stop an election result you don't like.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly avoided a defeat in Parliament on Tuesday after lawmakers voted against a controversial proposal seeking to bar...

President Trump leaves office reluctantly Wednesday after compiling one of the most consequential and turbulent records of any one-term leader.

Establishment Republicans like Cheney are desperate to regain control of the GOP—and to do away from popular conservatism for good.

More women of color are serving in the 117th Congress than ever before.

If Senate Democrats want to have any serious hope of convicting Trump, their best strategy is to slow the process down.

Republican senators are wrestling over what they want their party's future relationship with Donald Trump to be after he leaves office on Wednesday.

Illinois legislators ran out of time on bills to, among other things, expand vote-by-mail, allow lawmakers to conduct business remotely during the pandemic and eliminate newly expanded income tax deductions for business owners.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's education minister says he is banning groups that call Israel an "apartheid state" from lecturing at schools — a move that targets one of the country's leading...

With that whopping gift, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a scholarship program to put 50 students through law schools around the country.

The FBI warns there could be a repeat of the violent insurrection he encouraged on January 6, with Trump loyalists planning to hold armed protests nationwide ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration. We speak with Timothy Snyder, a historian of fascism, who says the riot at the U.S. Capitol was "completely...

President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion relief package Thursday that included more stimulus payments and other direct aid, but don't expect to see those funds in your bank account anytime soon.

When the US Senate moves forward with an impeachment trial of soon-to-be former President Donald Trump, senators would have full control over how they run it, based on history and Supreme Court precedent.

Women at the Capitol riot are just the latest reminder of a long history.

The Oklahoma senator, who is up for re-election in 2022, said he had not realized his objection to the election results would be seen as a direct attack on the voting rights of people of color.

A man from Sacramento, California, has resigned his position in the California Republican Assembly (CRA) after he was discovered to have participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, ABC10 reports. The CRA confirmed to ABC10 that Jorge Riley was the Corresponding Secretary for the Stat...

Conservative GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska has been lambasting all the Republicans on Capitol Hill who realize that President-elect Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 presidential election but are afraid to say so publicly — which, Sasse has stressed, is terrible for democracy. Liberal Washington ...

Bharat Ramamurti says canceling student debt, guaranteeing childcare, and protecting jobs will help the average family create wealth of their own.