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The U.S. Supreme Court has a reputation problem. And Donald Trump’s attacks are making it worse.

In the weeks since an ideologically divisive term ended, polls show the court getting poor approval ratings, with one ...Read more

BRISTOL, Conn. – John B. Larson has a booming voice, a thick head of white hair and almost 14 terms in Congress under his belt.

But at 78, the Democrat still sees himself as the scrappy kid raised in public housing in a...Read more

There are a lot of jobs in the U.S. economy that pay miserably low wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but still result in miserably low earnings because of unstable, fluctuating schedules.

How...Read more

We may never know what caused the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken more than 7 million lives worldwide. Was it a leak at a laboratory, as some have claimed? Did it come from animals, as most scientific bodies have stated? ...Read more

U.S. states are supposedly the laboratories of democracy, cooking up and testing local solutions to national problems. But some of those labs are more like Walter White’s RV methmobile: They’re not always doing stuff ...Read more

The person who set up the botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington is the manager at President Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to an investigation by The New ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas issued new guidance Thursday regarding a controversial law that prohibits police officers from coming within 250 feet of election sites.

In a letter to Farmington ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In the final days before the three-way Democratic primary to replace U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, outside groups are spending millions to support state Sen. Matt Klein, the moderate candidate in the race.

A ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate easily passed a bipartisan continuing resolution early Saturday morning, likely easing the traditional September rush to head off a partial government shutdown in October.

On a lopsided vote of ...Read more

On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote to the U.S. CEOs of seven major oil companies accusing them of “profiteering” from the war in Iran and imploring them to return their bounty to Illinois consumers.

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On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote to the U.S. CEOs of seven major oil companies accusing them of “profiteering” from the war in Iran and imploring them to return their bounty to Illinois consumers.

“...Read more

Arizona and Nevada will feel the brunt of the pain under a federal plan to reduce stress on the Colorado River. It’s an unjust solution, particularly for the Silver State.

Recently, the Interior Department released a 10...Read more

Sen. Tina Smith warned Minnesotans two years ago that a zombie could rise from the dead. She was right.

The zombie in question isn’t a movie monster. It’s the Comstock Act, a 1873 law criminalizing the mailing of “...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s decision to join Japan in supporting the yen was the first joint intervention of its kind for decades and took investors by surprise. There’s a respectable case for such cooperation: ...Read more

Let’s give credit where it’s due to Democrats hoping to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine: Troy Jackson is certainly an improvement over Graham Platner.

As a former longtime state legislator, his ...Read more

Anthony Fauci is an American hero. He spent his entire life in public service. He took on impossible challenges -- and impossible people. He saved millions of lives around the world.

And what does he get for it? A ...Read more

Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry has sprung up on the left dedicated to answering a single question: How can ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s latest move to shun foreign solar power equipment is part of his effort to rebuild U.S. manufacturing clout. It may simultaneously exacerbate the fast-widening green technology split between the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld a ruling that the Trump administration must receive congressional approval before it continues construction on a ballroom on ...Read more

The U.S. Postal Service plans to seek money from Congress to help fund its operations, an unusual request by an agency that’s working to stem an ongoing financial crisis.

The mail carrier plans to request a “...Read more