Election

The Justice Department's inspector general is launching an investigation into whether department officials "engaged in an improper attempt" to overturn the election.

With the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump set to begin in February, nine prominent Republican lawyers, including two former officials in the Trump administration, have signed a letter urging GOP senators to "consider the evidence" before deciding how to vote on conviction.

WASHINGTON — As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of

Trump reportedly wants to start his own political party, but with his second impeachment ongoing, will he re-enter politics, or polite society, at all?

When Brianna Titone first ran for a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives, she was viewed as an unlikely candidate, and her opponents didn't bother to say much about her being a transgender woman.But after winning the seat in an upset and becoming the first transgender legislator in state hi...

Peel back our political anger, and you'll find social disruptions on a scale the country hasn't seen since the early 1900s. So what does Teddy Roosevelt's era tell us about how to fix our divisions?

The case for a broad, fact-based alliance against lies.

An exit poll following Portugal's presidential election has suggested that the center-right incumbent candidate has won reelection to a second and final five-year term

Among them will be a rescinding of the prohibition on U.S. funding for foreign organizations that perform or promote abortions.

LONDON (AP) — The Egyptians who took to the streets on Jan. 25, 2011, knew what they were doing. They knew they risked arrest and worse. But as their numbers swelled in Cairo's central Tahrir...

On Jan. 20, right on schedule and without interruption, Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. Yet all is...

Trump plotted to oust Jeffrey Rosen as acting attorney general and replace him with a Justice Department lawyer who would help overturn the election results.

The former president dropped the efforts to replace the acting attorney general after top DOJ officials agreed to resign en masse in protest if he succeeded, people familiar said

A still-undecided congressional race in upstate New York has national implications because it lays bare just how the wholesale rewriting of election laws in 2020 was able to create chaos that undermines public confidence in voting.

Can a Marsh beat a Swamp? Yes, if the Supreme Court precedent in Marsh v. Alabama is applied by Congress, the court or state legislatures to save free speech...

A new day, and a new moment for America. Time to let the healing begin. Republicans, Democrats and people across the nation echoed those themes when expressing their hopes for Joe Biden's new administration and a future less fraught with anger and division in the United States. "There are times

Michigan's longest-serving Republican congressman is receiving harsh criticism from his own party after voting to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the fatal insurrection at the U.S. Capitol."The Allegan County Republican Party has censured longtime U.S. Rep. Fred Upton and 'condemned' his vote to i...

Former President Donald Trump may no longer be in the White House but many are not sure he is completely done with politics. However, when asked about his stance on Friday, Jan. 22, he gave away no indications of what he may do next. While seated at his usual table at the Grill Room inside his Trump...

The case was filed directly in the Supreme Court under its "original jurisdiction" over cases filed by one state against another. It could have important implications for the future of federalism.

President Joe Biden spent his first week in office trying to convince the nation to see themselves not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in defeating the pandemic. Then on Friday night, the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump got a formal date on the calendar, complicating every bipartisan goal on the new President's agenda.