President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural ...

Just last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a bipartisan chorus of governors in denouncing a Biden administration plan they said would strip states of powers guaranteed to them under federal law.

A fight between Republicans and Democrats in the US could lead to an October 1 federal government shutdown. Democrats are trying to leverage the must-pass bill to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies; ...

When the government shutdown ends, Donald Trump will have succeeded in staging the single biggest expansion of presidential power in American history because of the single largest shift in the ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa operates independently from Hochul's office because of a firewall enshrined in the state constitution and statute. The commissioner of the state Education ...

NEW YORK — New York’s governor on Monday proposed the construction of the state’s first new nuclear power plant in decades. Gov. Kathy Hochul directed the state’s power authority to develop an ...

(THE TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Just last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a bipartisan chorus of governors in denouncing a Biden administration plan they said would strip states of powers guaranteed to them ...

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