For those who haven’t noticed, Illinois has a new political tradition — one foreign to what it had for decades.

Ken Paxton has long pushed legal boundaries — riling up conservatives and using the courts to place himself at the center of ...

Months before New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was set to leave office because of term limits, she has been indicted in what ...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being ...

In a letter sent Friday to the heads of all 24 federal agencies, and shared exclusively with The New Republic, Oversight ...

Louisiana has a long and colorful history of political corruption allegations, which for decades have ensnared lawmakers at many levels of government. The most recent was Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New ...

Jaqueza Thomas, 20-year-old political science major at University of Illinois Chicago, and founder of Chicago Emerging Stars ...

Former U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is hitting the road in September to promote his upcoming memoir “Dead Center: In Defense of ...

Even though rural students graduate from high school at higher rates than their peers in cities and suburbs, fewer of them go ...

Many of Trump's picks to be federal judges have revealed anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or ...

Unethical food practices threaten public health, erode community trust, and endanger Kashmir’s cultural and economic fabric amid rising greed-driven corruptio ...