Credit: AP/David Goldman Governors hold powerful sway in American politics, shaping state policy and often using the ...

Lawmakers return to Washington this week with a series of immediate decisions to make on policy squabbles and leadership fights that have major consequences for finance.

McBride became the first openly transgender state senator in American history when she was elected in 2020. “Whenever you are ...

WASHINGTON -- Control of Congress is at stake Tuesday, with ever-tight races for the House and Senate that will determine ...

Several candidates are poised to become the first of their demographic to represent their states in the House or Senate.

The 59-year-old is expected to be re-elected with ease, as are three other Indian American Congress members. They include ...

Continue reading In Congress, Republicans have pushed anti-trans bills for ... Though barely a decade past her college days ...

A Nigerian-American Democrat, Oye Owolewa, has been re-elected as a Shadow Representative for the District of Columbia, DC.

Having won a big victory, Donald Trump can claim a mandate. But recent history shows that voters punish politicians who change things too much.

Klobuchar was Minnesota’s first woman elected to U.S. Senate in 2006. Omar was the first Somalian American in Congress in ...

Kansas has four seats in the U.S. House, and at least one of them will have a new member of Congress after the 2024 election.

Republican Rep. Young Kim, who in 2020 was one of the first Korean American women elected to Congress, fended off a challenge ...