A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed Wednesday evening ...

New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker set the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s ...

Moises Sandoval Mendoza received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:40 p ...

Nearing President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, 3,859 Americans offer insight into the president’s seven point approval rating decline, as well as rising support for the Republican Party and the ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has ordered agencies in his state to boycott work with El Salvador amid the detention fight for ...

Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted ...

The federal judiciary is being forced to confront a fundamental question: What to do when its orders are defied?

One woman used her turn to apologize to Grassley for "all the grief you've gotten this morning," prompting expletives, finger pointing and shouts between audience members to "shut up." ...

The government’s latest stubborn stance in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia litigation is (among other things) genuinely mystifying.

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin has announced that he will not seek a sixth term in office. Durbin (D-Illinois) was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and has been reelected four times, most ...

Illinois representative Sean Casten tells VF that town halls are at the core of democracy because people “deserve to have ...

Trump’s rococo Oval Office decorations are old-fashioned, just not for Americans.