In February, Nevada became the first state in the country with a female-majority legislature. By June, with the help of the state's Democratic governor, there were stronger laws ensuring equal pay for women, tougher penalties [...]

NPR's David Greene talks to Phillip Swagel, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, who says the nation's fiscal outlook is challenging and is on an unsustainable course.

John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor who ended his ill-fated presidential campaign last week, announced Thursday that he would run for a United States Senate seat in his home state, instantly making him one of [...]

It arrives on the heels of Inslee last night ending his White House run that raised climate's profile in the race even though the Washington State governor never gained polling traction. Per AP, Inslee will [...]

A conservative watchdog group is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics on Thursday to review whether 14 Democratic lawmakers and one Republican inappropriately used their office to try to coerce a Las Vegas casino mogul into allowing his [...]

Sen. Bernie Sanders was the first of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders to back the Green New Deal, a resolution put together by Congress’s most progressive lawmakers, outlining goals and principles for the US fight [...]

Bernie Sanders Unveils $16 Trillion ‘Green New Deal’ to Avert Climate Catastrophe and Create 20M Jobs Audio Cheat Sheet Press Play, Get Smarter BRAVE NEW WORLD Bernie Unveils $16 Trillion ‘Green New Deal’ Plan Plan [...]

A bitter Holyrood by-election campaign in Shetland has sunk to a new low after vandals spray-painted "SNP" on the main town's war memorial.  The slogan appeared on the Lerwick monument last night, only hours after [...]

You'll never guess! The same guy who blamed the Philly D.A. last week for the shooter in the police standoff being out on the streets neglected to mention something important: Namely, that the shooter was [...]

Former Trump administration officials are concerned about the president's behavior in recent days, claiming that his increasingly erratic outbursts are linked to private worries that recession in the US could torpedo his chances of reelection [...]

Migration experts say the UK cannot end freedom of movement from the EU on Brexit day because it has no system to work out who is legally in the country.The Home Office said on 19 [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After two years touting a booming economy as his own doing, U.S. President Donald Trump is test driving a new message on the economy: Any chance of a recession is not his [...]

President Trump defended the idea of buying Greenland — derided by critics within the United States and rejected by Denmark, which controls it — in part by saying the idea first came from President Harry [...]

America is awash in ugly, hateful speech. White nationalists march defiantly, and their slogans are echoed in murderous rampages. Government officials revel in disparaging the very people they patrol. Many people—and I’m one of them—argue [...]

(This is the 18th edition of our power rankings of Democrats most likely to get their party's presidential nomination in 2020.) THE POINT -- NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, [...]

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday that he will run for the U.S. Senate, becoming the immediate front-runner in a crowded Democratic field vying for the right to challenge Republican incumbent Cory Gardner. Hickenlooper [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — West Virginia University President Gordon Gee and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich are creating a nonprofit that will fight to steer cash from any national opioid settlement to hospitals, rather than [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday that he will run for the U.S. Senate, becoming the immediate front-runner in a crowded Democratic field vying for the right to challenge Republican incumbent [...]