Columbia University will pay a $200 million settlement to the federal government as part of an agreement to resolve ...

U.S. District Judge Lindsay Jenkins ruled that the Trump administration's efforts to force the state and city to comply with federal immigration law was an “end-run around the Tenth Amendment," which ...

Over the last 250 years, the federal government has encroached on the responsibilities of the states. One way this shows up is the amount of resources used by the federal government.

A federal executive order (EO) issued in March has created questions about the government’s right to access states’ data — especially in cases where that information was collected with a ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James and the attorneys general of 20 other states have filed a lawsuit against the federal ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For 25 years, a group of the country’s top experts has been fastidiously tracking the ...

CNN is tracking the evolving firings and layoffs at federal offices in Washington and across the United States.

In evaluating the current and future state of politics in the United States, Americans express largely negative views. And trust in the federal government, which has been low for nearly two decades, ...

For many, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the weakness of our federal government. The question is what could be done about it, and how it could be done in a way that strengthens democracy ...

WASHINGTON–President Trump issued an executive order today that will put the resources of the federal government to work helping states ensure the fairness and honesty of our elections.This ...

Attorneys general from Democratic-led states said the federal government is using obscure rule to slash previously awarded funds. By . Joseph De Avila. Share. Resize. Listen (2 min) ...