PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A woman who was sworn in Monday as a city council member in Bangor, Maine, served time in prison for ...

Members of Maine’s congressional delegation are not all in agreement about the vote to end the government shutdown.

Over the weekend, a group of eight Senate Democrats teamed up with Republicans to vote to advance a measure that would reopen ...

As eight Democratic-aligned senators with an average age of about 70 voted with Republicans to end the 40-day government ...

Some post-shutdown takes have centered on moderates’ desire to protect the filibuster as a major driving force for the deal.

Sen. Dick Durbin said the fight proved “Republicans are not sensitive to health care insurance premiums and we are.” That won ...

The Idaho Attorney General's Office has declined to file charges against a northern Idaho sheriff after investigating a ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection ...

Chuck Schumer is facing perhaps the deepest political crisis of his eight-year tenure as Democrats' leader in the Senate ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back on criticism from Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that he is ...

The sudden resignation of two top bosses at the BBC over the editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump dealt a huge ...

Washington — The decision by eight Democratic senators to embrace a deal to end the government shutdown has infuriated many ...