Over the last 250 years, the federal government has encroached on the responsibilities of the states. One way this shows up is the amount of resources used by the federal government.

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times ...

Thirty-one states, plus the District of Columbia, received more than they paid in. New Mexico, for example, sent around $12.4 billion to the federal government in taxes, but received over $41.8 ...

President Donald Trump's recent actions have sparked debate over the Posse Comitatus Act, a law from 1878 that limits ...

Federal troops are patrolling the National Mall and neighborhoods across Washington in President Donald Trump's extraordinary ...

States with the lowest and highest balance of payments As of 2022, New Mexico had the highest balance of payments, receiving more federal funds than what its businesses and residents paid in taxes ...

President Trump is calling up the D.C. National Guard and federal law enforcement to address crime in the capital.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco is weighing whether the Trump administration violated federal law by ...

Columbus has seemingly fallen off the feds' radar. The city was left off the latest federal list of "sanctuary jurisdictions." ...

The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote ...

The new list, released Aug. 5 by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs, includes three states and one ...

They had spent the past sixteen weeks holding press conferences and urging lawmakers to prevent the razing of federal ...