What Congress tackles or fails to accomplish often boils down to ‘the math.’ But a potential crisis over the debt ceiling later this year could really be about the math, even more than other things that are about the math ...

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party has voted to endorse an appellate court judge from Philadelphia, Daniel McCaffery, to be the party’s nominee for an open state Supreme Court seat in this year’s election. Party committee members voted at their meeting over the ...

The Virginia House of Delegates advanced a bill on Monday that would ban transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports at any level in Virginia schools.  ‘The purpose of House Bill 1837 is to protect our girls and ...

A Democratic lawmaker in Nebraska is being accused of ‘anti-religious bigotry’ by Republicans after she proposed to ban children from attending church youth groups or vacation Bible schools. State Sen. Megan Hunt says her amendment, which would ban children under ...

Vermont lawmakers are taking testimony on a pair of bills that aim to protect health care workers who provide abortions and gender-affirming health care in Vermont from legal and disciplinary action from states that limit or ban those practices. The ...