The U.S. Constitution gives federal law authority over conflicting state law, but state lawmakers have some means to push ...

Across a wide range of issues, President Donald Trump is seeking to impose the restrictive social agenda that has spread ...

Three years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S., in a split with its European allies over the war, sided ...

Republican President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, who oversees the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, ...

Gov. JB Pritzker accuses Trump administration of withholding $1.9 billion from Illinois, impacting state agencies and small ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were ...

US president Andrew Jackson famously reacted to an unfavorable ruling by the Supreme Court chief justice with the defiant ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will testify about the city’s sanctuary city status next week on Capitol Hill before a Republican-led House committee.

Despite a comment by President Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency does not plan to reduce its staff by 65%, ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is applauding President Donald Trump’s push to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but says “it can’t be peace that rewards the aggressor.” Starmer says that ...

President Donald Trump's administration says federal agencies should begin planning to eliminate employee positions. The ...

The governor traveled to Washington Tuesday to push for the release of frozen federal funds to Illinois and to warn of ...