The bill mandates enhanced background checks conducted through the Washington State Patrol’s firearms background check ...

Flanders’s study found that once voter ID laws were enacted in Wisconsin, voter turnout increased by 1.5%. The study also found that voter ID laws had no significant effect on the turnout of nonwhite ...

Washington State House Democrats mandate permits for gun purchases, impacting would-be gun owners and the ongoing gun control ...

Senate Bill 5098, primarily sponsored by Rep. Javier Valdez, D-Seattle, passed the Senate on March 5 with a 28-21 vote. The ...

On Monday, the Democrats most likely to support the funding patch were noncommittal on how they would vote. “Let’s see what the House does,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), who is up for ...

Updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate confirmation ...

President Trump assailed in biblical terms the “weaponization” of the Justice Department under his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying during a meandering speech in the Great Hall of the ...

Trump is also likely interested in the mining potential across Greenland's vast landmass, Mr Jacobsen added, especially the ...

Republicans in the state legislature ... have Election Day as a public holiday or require employers to provide paid time off for voting. North Carolina is one of 19 states that does not do either.

While she does ... state Democratic strategist Jim Demers said. "It becomes extremely competitive and a lot more expensive than it would have been had Sen. Shaheen run for re-election,” Demers ...

Donald Trump’s second presidency will take a novel path this week as he turns to Congress to enshrine part of his effort to ...