Currently, only one ballot measure — proposing new limits on financial contributions to candidates for public office — has ...

Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, has several provisions that will shrink the safety net, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...

A viable third party is the great white whale of American politics — but Elon Musk appears willing to try it anyway.

In recent decades, American presidential elections have been decided by a small handful of swing states — places where the ...

Around 12 hours later, after she had convinced Senate leaders to change the bill to benefit her state and voted for the ...

JD Vance casts tie-breaking vote as Senate passes ‘big, beautiful’ bill - The Independent was on Capitol Hill overnight as ...

Feeling out of step with President Trump’s G.O.P., Senator Thom Tillis and Representative Don Bacon are deciding to retire.

AI: Commerce Chair Ted Cruz and Sen. Marsha Blackburn are pitching a plan to cut the megabill’s 10-year moratorium on state ...

At issue is the Louisiana legislature's creation of a Black-majority congressional district, which a group of voters claimed was an illegal racial gerrymander.

The Supreme Court will not decide right now whether Louisiana violated the Constitution when it enacted a congressional map last year that created a second majority-Black district. In a surprise order ...

The Supreme Court declined on Friday to rule in a dispute involving a Louisiana electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state, with the justices ...