Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has undoubtedly worked hard in American politics for the past four decades, dedicating most of her life to government work.

Investigators believe a shooting that damaged power substations in North Carolina was a crime.

Moon Landrieu, the patriarch of a Louisiana political family who was a lonely voice for civil rights until the tide turned in the 1960s, has died.

As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs and improvements when he took over a lagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2010.