A bill increasing the number of potential employers a person has to contact to get unemployement benefits cleared the Alabama House of Representatives. An amend ...

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

Beverly Byron, a conservative Democrat who represented Western Maryland in the House of Representatives for 14 years, died of ...

Republicans in the Ohio Senate approved a sweeping higher education overhaul − hours after hundreds of students and faculty ...

The race is on between Republican leaders in the House and Senate to see who can be first to create a budget with the ...

Tressel was approved with a 31-1 vote in the Senate with one Democrat voting no and approved with a 68-27 vote in the House ...

A Trump backlash could help Democrats retake the House in 2026, but the Senate landscape is too pro-Republican.

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the decision banning ...

Senate Democrats face significant challenges in regaining control of the chamber, as Republican gains in the 2024 elections ...

In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel was confirmed Wednesday as Ohio’s next lieutenant ...

Two days after being named by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine as his pick for the state’s new lieutenant governor, former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel now ...