Democratic and Republican leaders of the Minnesota House have reached a power-sharing agreement to end a three-week stalemate.

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In his first week in office, President Trump displayed an unusually expansive vision of executive authority. He challenged ...

Mr. Trump is indeed testing Washington and the American people to see how far he can go in accumulating authority and in ...

With just one week before the deadline, many federal workers are still unclear whether they can trust the Trump ...

Braun launched his first month in office with a flurry of executive orders and, on Wednesday, his first joint address to the ...

Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

It’s reasonable to see the nation’s and the world’s attention focused on Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration.

School districts have cut their budgets to the bone. Will the state legislature decide to spend at least as much per pupil as ...

I don’t know about you, but I have spent the majority of my adulthood unaware of the broad power wielded by the President of the United States.

Pennsylvania was one of 12 divided state governments at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in ...

New York was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a ...