One lawmaker briefed on the proposal called it “probably the biggest proposal that this Legislature has seen in 50 years.” ...

Two fundamental issues dividing Republicans and Democrats are taxes and spending, and the size and jurisdiction of government.

Former governor Thomas P. Salmon, who died Monday, at age 92, was a plain-spoken politician, lawyer-businessman, Democrat with a deep-seated aversion toward the left-leaning wing of his party.

New York City’s Democratic mayor is defending his private meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as the Republican ...

Democrats meet Saturday to pick party leaders for the coming two years. Five candidates vie for the role of chair, among ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland came in with a mission to calm the waters at the Justice Department and restore its ...

Bipartisan critics of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are sharpening their arguments that he is unfit to serve as the nation’s top health official, embracing the extra time they have been given while Kennedy ...