President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili...

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

Proposed rules from the IRS offer some details on how the first nationwide school choice program will work.

Six years after Trump's allies tried to overturn Pennsylvania's 2020 results, 10 election deniers are on the state’s November ballot.

We examine Democrat Josh Shapiro and Republican Stacy Garrity’s views on public school funding, voucher programs, and more.

“This is death by a thousand cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket. “It’s why you move voting sites, it’s why you have fewer hours, it’s why our absentee mailing ballots are so compl...

The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

A bill that attempts to address voter worries about data centers and their impact on energy costs failed to advance in the Senate on Wednesday, falling victim to an election-year clash on how best to ...

On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.

Inquirer readers on the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum and the presidential prospects of Gov. Josh Shapiro.

The health secretary touted AI as a solution to the “most daunting public health problems,” and said it is better equipped at providing second opinions than doctors.

Gov. DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to advance the terrorist designations Tuesday, approving the proposal in just over 30 seconds and with no discussion.

White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.

An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.