Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will join Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and some GOP governors around the country in directing U.S. flags be raised to full height on Inauguration Day.

It is usually a fun, sometimes silly legislative tradition. So what happened when GOP House members tried to do it this year?

Minnesota Supreme Court justices on Wednesday promised to decide quickly whether a special Roseville-area election critical ...

A Republican senator hopes to "make Minnesota Iowa again" after introducing a bill that would allow Iowa to buy nine southern ...

Democrats have asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session.

As the clock struck noon on Tuesday, all desks were empty in the DFL half of the House chamber; Republicans pressed ahead ...

A range of DFL proposals moving forward at the Capitol last year are likely frozen in place as Democrats have lost full ...

A joint session of Congress is set to convene on Monday afternoon to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, performing a basic ritual of democracy that was brutally ...

New members of congress take the oath of office Friday as the 119th U.S. Congress gets underway. Among those new members is ...

Plus: Will House Speaker Mike Johnson keep his job? And Donald Trump will hold a 'victory rally' in Washington on the eve of ...

Laws hiking taxes and adding regulations are set to take effect in states across the country in the New Year, from New York to California and the District of Columbia to Colorado.

But two years ago, a Republican revolt prolonged the process for four agonizing days and 15 contentious votes, laying bare the party’s divisions ... an Islamic State flag, officials said.