OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers were preparing to work through the night Monday and possibly into Tuesday as the state House of Representatives move toward a vote on a controversial income ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White House dramatically shaped the Watergate scandal, ultimately leading to Nixon ...

Each individual senator has a tremendous amount of power to disrupt the normal functionings of the Senate,’ Sen. Cory Booker ...

Nine communities passed a question on Town Meeting Day calling on the legislature to take up H.433, a bill that would establish a universal healthcare system in Vermont. Doctor Jack Mayer, a retired ...

Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "Now that the official verdict is that nobody did anything wrong, it's a little extreme to call it a 'scandal.' Seems ...

Live Nation has agreed to divest from concert venues and put a 15% cap on service fees for event organizers.

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - Six Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Monday said they are embarking on an intensified campaign for public hearings on the Iran war, with top Trump ...

Oregon lawmakers proposed hundreds of bills in the packed, five-week-long legislative session that wrapped on Friday, including dozens that failed to cross the finish line.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon on Monday let the state’s new $3.9 billion K-12 education plan become law without his signature. He ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former White House aide who exposed the recordings that revealed the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 99 years old.

WASHINGTON — The prospects for President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act grew murkier Monday as divisions deepened among Senate Republicans about how to pass it and whether it's possible to overcome ...

A group of Senate Democrats are threatening to use every procedural tool at their disposal to hold up business on the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete ...