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Uvalde, TX Mayor Don McLaughlin is sounding the alarm on human smugglers' ongoing efforts to exploit the Biden administration's border policies.

More than 100 House Democrats signed onto legislation this week to lift the prohibition on using foreign aid for abortions overseas, which would reverse 50 years of U.S. policy.

Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability toured the jail in response to complaints from Jan. 6 defendants held there.

A bipartisan bid by Connecticut lawmakers to move the state's presidential primary to an earlier date cleared a significant legislative hurdle Friday.

Three chairmen on House committees are scrutinizing what they say is a potential move by Customs and Border Protection to discipline agents in the 2021 Del Rio incident.

Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature. The state's “right-to-work” law had allowed those in unionized workplaces to opt out of paying union dues and fees. Its repeal is seen as a major victory for organized labor with union membership reaching an all-time low last year.

The House on Friday passed the Parents Bill of Rights Act over objections from Democrats who called it 'fascism' and an 'extreme' attempt to ban books from schools.

The "Parents Bill of Rights" Act serves as a message for Republicans, who believe voters agree with their position that parents don’t have enough input in schools.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., warned Thursday that Democrat would soon try to restrict guns by declaring a public health emergency related to gun violence.

Democrats in Washington State are working to pass a bill to allow police officers and firefighters who can't read or write in English eligible for those jobs.

Texas senators on Wednesday unanimously approved Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s agenda on property tax cuts this legislative session, which would pump billions of state dollars into public schools and give bigger tax breaks for homeowners and business owners.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

A California Democrat who helped kill a Republican-backed bill that would've increased criminal penalties for sexual assault is staying quiet after opposing the measure.

United in their opposition, House Democrats challenged Republican claims that the bill would reduce discrimination and argued that a comprehensive history education should make students uncomfortable. Eighteen others have already limited how teachers can discuss racism and sexism in the classroom. Gaston County Republican Rep. John Torbett said the proposal, which now heads to the Senate, will prohibit schools from endorsing controversial concepts, including that one race or sex is inherently superior.

The proposals target the taxes homeowners pay and require school districts to lower their tax rates.

Only 10% of U.S. adults say they have significant confidence in the nation’s banks and financial institutions, a new poll finds.

Nancy Pelosi spoke at a Wall Street Journal event on Monday night where she was hesitant to weigh directly in on the rumors of a coming indictment against Donald Trump.

Jesse Watters discusses how Democrats are itching to have former President Donald Trump be the first president in history to have a mugshot photo on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined 'The Story' to sound off on the latest news involving the origins of the coronavirus, after Biden signed a bipartisan bill.

Across the country, parties are consolidating political power in states and squeezing out the moderate middle. In Montana, that squeeze is changing political representation and whose voice counts.

Fox News host Jesse Watters calls out Alvin Bragg for going after former President Trump on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton joined 'The Story' on Monday to sound off on the state of crime in New York and criminal justice reform.

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A filibustering Democrat and her colleagues blame Republicans for bringing the culture war to their normally bipartisan state assembly.

Republican New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said Sunday that the impending indictment of former president Trump in a probe into hush-money payments made to a porn actress could backfire on Democrats and upset the 2024 political stage.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told Republicans to not protest the potential arrest of former President Donald Trump because the Democrats are "sealing their own fate" in 2024.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told Republicans to not protest the potential arrest of former President Donald Trump because the Democrats are "sealing their own fate" in 2024.

New York Assemblyman Juan Ardila, a freshman Democrat from Queens, is facing calls to resign after two women's accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced.

Ukraine shows that Republicans have moved a long way from the Party of George W. Bush.

A letter printed Feb. 20 states that conservatives reject the teachings of slavery and the lynching of Mexican-Americans by Texas Rangers. As for the Holocaust that he mentions, it’s socialist Democrats who have denied it. Perhaps socialist Democrats are comfortable with having this literature to the chagrin of parents. The writer states Viva Joe Biden and that unemployment is the lowest in 50 years. We have civil discourse across the country because of the socialist Democrats defunding the police.

Democrats in the Wisconsin Legislature have introduced a proposal to almost completely eliminate cash bail, replacing it with a risk assessment system.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank have lawmakers and policy figures grasping for answers. There’s little consensus as to what lawmakers may do in response – if anything.

Republicans and Democrats sparred in the Senate today over how willing President Biden is to meet with lawmakers to talk about saving Social Security.

A bill that would discard North Carolina’s longstanding requirement that gun buyers need to obtain a permit and clear a mental evaluation will head to the governor’s desk Wednesday.

Just look at what happened with the Ku Klux Klan.

Fox News contributor Douglas Murray torches woke policies infiltrating the banking sector and issues a warning to other banks and industries putting identity over expertise.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said Wednesday he was proud of his agents who were on horseback in Del Rio in 2021 and were falsely accused of whipping migrants.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's education commissioner announced that the state is taking over Houston's public school district. Some Democrats in the state see the move as political.

Texas officials have announced a takeover of Houston’s nearly 200,000-student school district.

Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political. The announcement, made by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's education commissioner, Mike Morath, amounts to one of the largest school takeovers ever in the U.S. It also deepens a high-stakes rift between Texas' largest city, where Democrats wield control, and state Republican leaders, who have sought increased authority following election fumbles and COVID-19 restrictions.

Key Democratic campaign groups won't commit to supporting Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin should he decide to run for re-election in 2024.

Michigan Senate Democrats have voted to repeal the state's "right-to-work" law. The Senate also voted to restore the state's prevailing wage law.

Appearing in a presidential battleground state, President Biden is expected to tout provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that lower drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries.

The dearth of competitive down-ballot races could contrast with the last few election cycles in Texas, when multiple congressional seats and state legislative seats drew significant national investment.

The North Carolina Supreme Court is hearing arguments again in a redistricting case it ruled on only three months ago.

Critics excoriated the justices for reexamining the redistricting case so soon after ruling on it, contending the justices were doing so for partisan reasons instead of legal ones.

The Fox News host invited possible Republican candidates to agree with him — and rewarded those who did.

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The priority bill, backed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, reverses a change the Legislature made two years ago during an omnibus voting bill that made illegal voting a

Democrat West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin aligned himself with Republicans in support of President Biden's decision to reapprove a massive oil drilling project in Alaska.

The priority bill, backed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, reverses a change the Legislature made two years ago during an omnibus voting bill that made illegal voting a misdemeanor.

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi warned there was a 'total breakdown' of the 'role of the press' revealed after publishing the bombshell Twitter Files

Warren blamed a Trump-era bank regulation policy for Silicon Valley Bank's fallout and pointed to the millions still waiting for student-debt relief.

Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried attacked Gov. Ron DeSantis for promoting “butt plug porn” at his recent press conference exposing the “book ban hoax.”

Rep. Jamie B. Raskin said Donald Trump’s lawyers told a counsel for Trump's accounting firm to stop providing documents to the House Oversight Committee.

Republicans stir up the public pot, demanding information about gender treatments at hospitals and critical race theory curriculum in the schools. The Republican National Committee just reelected Trump favorite Ronna McDaniel to a fourth term as their chair. This is ostensibly to preclude “rigged elections,” which really means trying once again to rig the next election in favor of Republicans. Meanwhile, back at the ranch — or maybe that should be the “funny farm” that has become the House of Representatives now that it is under Republican control, except that there’s nothing amusing about it. LeeBrownsvilleLETTERS — Limit letters to 300 words; all letters are subject to editing.

Elizabeth Warren has called Kamala Harris twice to offer an apology for comments that Harris' team called "pretty insulting," according to CNN.

Michigan Democrats are poised to bring an 11-bill package to the Legislature that would implement safe storage laws, universal background checks and extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws.

In two years as Virginia's governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin has gone from political newcomer to potential 2024 presidential candidate.

The Senate has voted to block new District of Columbia crime laws and overrule the city government as lawmakers in both parties have expressed concern about rising violent crime rates in cities nationwide.

President Joe Biden’s support of a resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and other cities.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has launched a wholesale Republican effort to rewrite the history of the deadly siege.

President Joe Biden has visited the Senate to demonstrate unity among Democrats — but he ended up endorsing a Republican priority instead.

The two top Democrats in Congress are asking Fox News executives not to spread false information about the 2020 election and are demanding that commentators who suggested that the election was stolen acknowledge on the air that they were wrong.

President Joe Biden is imploring House Democrats to go out and sell the Democratic accomplishments of the last two years to voters.

A spokesman for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says the Democrat is “on a path to recovery” after checking himself into a hospital for clinical depression earlier this month, and he is still expected to be away from the Senate for several weeks.

Senate Republicans' campaign operation is taking steps to avoid a repeat of their party's disastrous showing in last year's midterms.

South Carolina is accustomed to increased attention in the years leading up to presidential elections, given that the state has hosted the South’s first voting contests for several of the last cycles.

Lawmakers in several Democratic-controlled states are advocating sweeping voter protections.

Florida Democrats have selected former state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried to lead their party after a disastrous midterm performance in the onetime presidential battleground state.

The Michigan Republican Party has elected Kristina Karamo to be its next chair during a convention in Lansing.

Subpoenas have been sent to the chief executives of the five largest tech companies as congressional Republicans moved to investigate what they assert is widespread corporate censorship of conservative voices House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued the subpoenas Wednesday as the latest in a series of escalations by a party that has long promised to investigate Big Tech’s content moderation.

The Congressional Budget Office says it expects the U.S. economy to stagnate this year.

North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed a bill requiring teachers to alert parents before calling their child by a different name or pronoun.

President Joe Biden sounded like a candidate making his case for a second term as he rallied a raucous meeting of national Democrats who chanted, “Four more years!”.

A newly released audio recording offers a behind-the-scenes look at how former President Donald Trump’s campaign team in a pivotal battleground state knew they had been outflanked by Democrats in the 2020 presidential election.

A new poll shows that more U.S. adults disapprove than approve of the way President Joe Biden has handled the discovery of classified documents at his home and former office.

A group of Hispanic lawmakers in Connecticut has proposed that the state follow Arkansas’ lead and ban the term “Latinx” from official government documents, calling it offensive to Spanish speakers.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed dramatic spending to help New York City handle a wave of international migrants and to stabilize its reeling public transit system with her $227 billion state budget Wednesday, even as she warned of tougher economic times ahead.

Congress is going to take another look at legislation covering the rights of airline passengers.

Republicans are wrestling over how much of the state’s nearly $33 billion budget surplus to spend on property taxes. Democrats have their own ideas about what to do with the cash.

More than 60% of Texans polled by Texas Lyceum said the country is on the wrong course, and the poll found steep drops in the number of people who think democracy is the best form of government.

The spectrum of ideas on immigration could throw cold water on hope that there will be a breakthrough in Congress.

A Democratic-led Virginia Senate panel has defeated several bills that would have restricted abortion access in the state.

State policymakers have mapped out familiar territory early in the legislative session, with Democrats seeking to expand voting access and Republicans pledging to make elections more secure.

Conservative activists have pushed for legislative leaders to ban Democrats from leading committees.

While Democrats and the far-right edge of the Republican Party remain focused on abortion, leaders in both chambers have not yet spent much time discussing the issue this session.

Women who serve in the Missouri House will face a tougher dress code when they return to the floor this week after a debate that Democrats panned as a pointless distraction from the issues facing the state.

House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, snuffed out a monthslong push Wednesday to end the chamber’s longtime tradition of having committee chairs from both parties.

The IRS is beginning to see “a light at the end of the tunnel” of its customer service struggles, thanks to tens of billions of new money from the Democrats’ climate and health law and the authority to hire more people.

House Republicans have moved to swiftly establish the marquee investigations of their new majority, voting to create panels focused on China and what they assert is rampant abuse of power in the federal government.

Lawmakers begin work today for their biennial legislative session. They’ll debate over the state budget, school issues, border security and property taxes, among other issues.

As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, some state legislatures have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisan divides or razor-thin margins of party control with creative, if yet untested, solutions.

There are 64 Democrats in the 150-member House, one fewer than before the election. There is also one fewer Democrat in the Senate.

New state data shows that an election eve Pennsylvania court decision that said mail-in ballots without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes can’t count resulted in otherwise valid votes being canceled in the high-stakes November election.

New Hampshire Democrats are asking the national party not to “punish” them while overhauling its 2024 presidential primary calendar.

Democrats are again claiming the Senate majority, but much of the chamber’s focus is on the top Republican as Mitch McConnell becomes the longest serving Senate leader in history.

A Democrat who promised to govern as an independent was elected speaker of the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday on the strength of every Democrat and more than a dozen GOP votes.

An explosion of new election-related legislation followed former President Donald Trump's lies about losing the 2020 presidential election due to fraud.

A sweeping national survey of the electorate, AP VoteCast, shows that Republican House candidates nationwide won the support of 38% of independent voters during last month's midterm elections.

Gov. Greg Abbott reportedly sent the migrants, who arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence Saturday night. The governor has been busing migrants to Democratic-let cities since April and first sent buses to Harris’ home in September.