The governor's influence is rising in the Democratic party, as she shifts from low-key resistance to full-on protest over Trump's punitive slashing of federal funds ...

A behind-the-scenes legal effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution could end up helping ...

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Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides ...

Emboldened by court rulings and election victories, the Christian right is outspoken as it pushes its moral views through the ...

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Trump critics are hypocrites who didn't criticize Biden power grabs. They are also ignorant of major constitutional crises ...