Donald Trump appoints a series of allies to key posts, including Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general and Marco Rubio ...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote the Dred Scott decision in 1857, ruling that Black Americans were not and ...

Bump stocks were previously banned after being used in the 2017 Las Vegas Harvest Music Festival shooting, the deadliest mass ...

State Superintendent Ryan Walters spoke out after a federal judge called requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in ...

A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the 218 ...

In 1980, the Supreme Court rejected a Kentucky law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. A ...

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country’s best known conservative lawyers and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died ...

The U.S. Constitution stipulates that the Senate must approve of a number of presidential appointments, including ambassadors ...

The U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled hearings in early January for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid ...

Marco Rubio, a Florida U.S. senator since 2011, has been chosen by Donald Trump to serve as secretary of state in the ...

Associated Press Democratic governors and state attorneys general are dusting off the playbooks from their offices’ pushback against President-elect Donald Trump’s policies, but they know it could be ...

On the heels of the general election last week, there’s another important vote on tap this Wednesday in Washington that will ...