President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that “a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” as he defended his call for Republicans to nationalize elections.

The House has approved a spending bill to end a short-lived partial government shutdown. Now lawmakers will begin contentious negotiations over new guardrails for immigration enforcement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The partial government shutdown is vastly different from the record closure in the fall. That is mostly because this shutdown, which started Saturday, does not include the whole of ...

Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

Leaders of various judicial-related agencies appeared for oversight hearings in front of state lawmakers, plus a federal ...

Legal experts say President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax information raises a host of ...

The Knesset, Israel’s 120-seat parliament, is arguably the most powerful branch of government. Composed of elected officials ...

Thousands of Federal Aviation Administration workers have been furloughed and nearly 14,000 air traffic controllers will work ...

PM refuses to explain why Supreme Court chief Amit wasn’t invited, warns against one branch overpowering others — a crisis critics say he is deliberately deepening ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The ...

A BELIEF instilled in us by our American colonizers is faith in a democracy that, in practice, means that we elect those who craft our laws and the man (or woman) who is the chief executive and the ...

This administration is moving America ever farther from its core values. The Founding Fathers would recognize this governance — and would condemn it as tyranny.