Getting his recently unveiled property tax relief proposal through the Texas Legislature will likely be the toughest fight in ...

Polls show the Republican primary for U.S. Senate is close. Both Senator John Cornyn and one of his challengers, Congressman ...

A new survey from the American Communities Project shows that pessimism about the country’s future has risen in cities since ...

Dallas voted to join a growing list of cities that are consolidating elections to improve participation and save money.

Chileans voted for a new president and parliament on Sunday. This gallery was curated by AP photo editors.

The upper chamber of the Legislature could see as many as seven new members by 2027. But that wouldn't be the biggest ...

About 300 Illinois National Guard troops will remain activated in the Chicago area, as will about 200 soldiers from the ...

The 43-day government shutdown has exposed the intensifying battle between progressives and centrists over the direction of ...

The federal government reopened with bipartisan support, while Michigan lawmakers voted along party lines, and a group of Republican lawmakers asked the U.S. Department of Justice to oversee the ...

Can the right find its way back to small government? Sarah Isgur thinks so.

Firefighters in southeastern Texas battled a blaze at a decommissioned power plant that sent large plumes of smoke into the ...

Wide swaths of the party have been critical of the lawmakers, but were they actually practicing a kind of bygone ...