A standoff in Texas over redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump sharply escalated Sunday when dozens of ...

The last of the ComEd Four defendants to be sentenced learned his fate Tuesday at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago.

As Texas House Democrats hunker down in Illinois to try to stop a Republican-led redistricting plan in their state, national ...

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Texas Democrats, along with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the ...

South Texas: The districts currently held by U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar of Laredo and Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen would become ...

A federal judge has sentenced former contract lobbyist Jay Doherty to one year plus one day in prison for his role in a scheme to bribe ...

Former City Club President Jay Doherty was sentenced to one year in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally influence ...

Texas Democratic lawmakers continued to hide out in Illinois to prevent a redistricting attempt by Republicans.

Most Texas House Democrats remain out of the state, depriving the Legislature of its ability to pass new congressional maps ...

On their first full day in Illinois and other northern states, Texas House Democrats who fled their home state to block a ...

A roll call shortly after 3 p.m. revealed that there were only 90 state representatives on the House floor - 10 short of the ...

The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to ...