Justices Appear to Side With City Trying to Regulate Homeless Encampments

A group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public. The case has broad implications for homelessness policy throughout the country. Read More

Political group looks at abortion ballot initiative

Following a legislative session with no action taken to clarify or amend Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, some residents have formed a political group called Idahoans United for Women and Families ... Read More

Xavier Becerra sharpens his aim

Becerra or emissaries have approached political firms about standing up a gubernatorial campaign, two people briefed on those discussions told POLITICO. Becerra also has spent more than $130,000 over ... Read More

Who’s running away with campaign cash

While some of you were charging down Boylston Street Monday, our federal lawmakers were running headlong toward a different kind of finish line: the midnight deadline to file their first-quarter ... Read More

First day of historic Trump trial ends without any jurors being picked

The historic hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records to stifle ... Read More

Librarians already under attack as activists challenge books. Now they could go to prison

Across the country, book bans and attempted bans have soared to the highest levels in decades. Now librarians face new threats: Crippling lawsuits, hefty fines, and even prison. Read More