A new study from PEN America reveals that there were nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools over the past year, the highest since tracking began five years ago.

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America.

New analysis examines how a Post Office policy could affect mail-in ballot delivery times and lead to additional ballot rejections in November.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said local opposition prompted the decision.

The measure comes as households are struggling with rising costs.

Executive Summary For years, the headline economic data describing workers’ well-being have been weak: over the year ending in August, the most recent

The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.

Trump administration and Republican policies are pushing more households into poverty. Immigrants are hit hardest.

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

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As regulators tackle AI safety, they should also consider bias.

The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.

President Donald Trump and his allies inside and outside his administration are aiming to blanket polling places with an expanding network of party and federal election monitors this November, intensi...

Democratic lawmakers wants Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to respond to a legislative inquiry by Oct. 14 following claims of broken promises.

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.

The country’s refugee cap will more than double in October for next fiscal year, the State Department informed Congress on Tuesday.

Rural voters rank the cost of living and cost of healthcare as top issues they want to hear about from midterm candidates as they face a tightening pocketbook pinch.

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

The episode, which the housing chief denied, occurred as Pulte and Blanche clashed over an investigation into Sen. Adam Schiff.

The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.

Democracy’s defenders won round one, but Donald Trump has done plenty of damage to Americans’ faith in voting at home.

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

In an insult-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump said he was instituting the ban because of reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.”

Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a federal judge to clarify that the center cannot be torn down after images surfaced of the president reviewing what appeared to be a printout related to the institution.

National Park Service officials acknowledge that President Donald Trump’s planned arch would harm dozens of historic sites but say it must move forward anyway.

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Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt

A review of over a million social media messages reveals that Republicans haven’t heeded the president’s call to act like he’s on the ballot and promise $5,000 payouts.

A Capital Area Food Bank study found the worst conditions in five years as job losses, rising costs and federal program cuts hit residents.

This year has become the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000.

The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation.

The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.

Hospital leaders were excited about the Rural Health Transformation Fund until they saw the fine print.

Officials said the center is facing “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks, insist that adding President Donald Trump’s name may be the only way to avoid bankruptcy.

President Trump has been at the forefront of the “what-me-worry?” crowd, refusing to engage on how to balance the risks and rewards of A.I.

1 in 5 Trump voters regrets their vote, according to a new survey from Navigator Research