Attorney General William Barr is drawing sharp condemnation for comparing lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery.
California's governor says the state should lower the legal bar for providing forced treatment to the mentally ill and building more homeless shelters.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says there would be no federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. without the work of John Conyers.
The Trump administration is expanding the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without requiring them to appear before judges ahead of deportation.
A U.S. judge in San Francisco has blocked the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for a court to hear their cases, but the order won't immediately go into effect.
The attack in Orlando, Florida was shocking to everyone. But it didn't come as a huge surprise to Bob Gast. He is a former Assistant Director of the FBI who has lived in Galena for 15 years now. He says it was a matter of time.
Nevada Assembly Republicans are advocating for a bill that would expand the rights of people who kill someone in self-defense.
The House has passed a bill to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of American phone records. It's the first legislative response to the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and the Senate is expected to take it up.
Obama Administration officials developed standards to protect the computer systems that run critical sectors of the economy like transportation, financial, health care and energy.