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One-party rule imperils Ohioans’ wallets and their state’s treasury (think House Bill 6, the FirstEnergy bailout, or the ...

What’s happened to the party of John Glenn and Richard F. Celeste, of Howard M. Metzenbaum and John J. Gilligan, of Louis Stokes and Stephanie Tubbs Jones?

Short of the Civil War, it’s hard to imagine a constitutional crisis more dangerous than what we’re in for if President Donald Trump sticks by his professed belief that federal judges have no right to ...

In the age of President Trump — who’d never so much as been on a school board before running for president — this might sound passé, but experience still matters. Indeed, in many ways, it matters more ...

Good morning and welcome to our Under the Dome Sunday newsletter, which focuses on new Gov. Josh Stein. I’m Dawn Vaughan, The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. Stein met with U.S. Sens. Thom ...

United States President, Donald Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump on Saturday night met with all governors both ...

Follow live updates as President Donald Trump speaks at CPAC and meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda amid the ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi said President Donald Trump’s administration will “find illegal aliens” and “deport them in ...

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Jack Ciattarelli was among the people backed Saturday morning at the Atlantic County Republican Convention in Galloway Township.

Speaking at CPAC on Saturday, border czar Tom Homan warned the city's Police Commissioner Michael Cox that he's "coming to ...

Governors Jared Polis of Colorado and Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma are urging Trump to “let states play a role" in immigration ...