State Rep. Justin Sparks’ gamble to prevent state Rep. Jon Patterson from winning the Missouri House speakership failed ...

Plus: Report from New Orleans in the days since the terror attack on Bourbon Street, and the Surgeon General's new advisory ...

As they seek to smooth over past factional fights in the state Senate, Republicans face a new round of infighting in the ...

Madigan and his co-defendant – longtime confidant Michael McClain – are on trial on racketeering and bribery charges​.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives reelected state Rep. Joanna McClinton, a Philadelphia Democrat, as House speaker ...

Johnson, of Louisiana, has been working diligently to prevent defeat, spending New Year’s Day at Mar-a-Lago as he positions ...

WASHINGTON -- This time was supposed to be different.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan returns to the stand Wednesday . It was surprise and risky decision to testify by a man famously tight-lipped with the media. It may be ...

Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican who ascended to the leadership post in 2023 after the historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy, ...

According to the Congressional Record, the policy will be enforced by the sergeant-at-arms and applies to “all areas of the ...

A Democratic state representative’s health problems could complicate the vote for speaker of the Pennsylvania House of ...

It was July 18, 2017, when Madigan first met real estate developer Andy Cretal at his tax law firm office in the Loop. That meeting was, without either man's knowledge, being recorded by 22nd Ward ...