On Dec. 1, 1920 — a month after Warren G. Harding was elected president of the United States — Elizabeth Barrett was born.

The court found that Republican-drafted ballot language didn't plainly state that the proposal would repeal an earlier reproductive rights amendment.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments early next year in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship – the guarantee of […] The post ...

On the House floor on Monday, Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) gave a highly personal accounting of Black maternal risks: she ...

(L-R) FIFA President Gianni Infantino, US President Donald Trump, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canada's Prime ...

Utah‘s Republican-led legislature is set to convene a special session on Dec. 9 to review a judge’s ruling on congressional ...

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content ...

The originalist argument in favor of birthright citizenship is that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” was meant to invoke only a small set of exceptions found in traditional British common law.

The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will ...

The ballot measure seeks to undo a citizen-driven one that passed in 2024, which expanded abortion rights in the state.

Will the mockingbird be dethroned after nearly 100 years as Florida's state bird? Some lawmakers want this pink replacement.

On Dec. 5, 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., demanding seating on an equal basis with white people.