A senior Democrat on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees wants Donald Trump to stop the large-scale immigration raids he has ordered, such as the one this week in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through businesses across Mississippi detaining nearly 700 undocumented immigrants.

The legislation could affect everything from what paper gets used in state offices to what gets served in California cafeterias.

Despite the political abuse (or perhaps because of it) related to Trump's racist tweets, a funny thing happened: Ocasio-Cortez's popularity only has risen.

Donald Trump has the approval of 85 percent or more of Republicans, but that is not the same as enthusiasm--and on that Democrats have a big gap.

As tensions heat up in the Persian Gulf, the Navy’s minesweeping fleet may once again be called into action, but its sailors say the ships are too old and broken to do the job. “We are essentially the ships that the Navy forgot.”

A MSNBC midday host mused on-air whether former congressman Beto O'Rourke would see a bump in his polls as a result of the media blitz he's experienced in recent days as a result of Saturday's mass shooting in O'Rourke's poll numbers.

The state’s leaders want a federal loan guarantee to build a giant chemical storage plant that could cost as much as $10 billion.

Voters are following politics in ways not witnessed before — three quarters at the highest level on a 0 to 10 ladder scale.

After talks with well-connected lawyers for Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, senior Justice Department officials in Washington last year told career prosecutors who’d been investigating the banks’ misdeeds to settle for less than they wanted.

The Republican brand of social conservatism is for other people.