The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted along party lines to approve legislation designed to allow the Senate Democrats to begin d…
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia on Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election pro…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says "failure is not an option" when it comes to passing voting legislation. This comes as he set next Mo…
Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter used an address Monday to announce events for the upcoming holiday in honor of her father to push for federa…
For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis. The source of that crisis, we are t…
The first orders of business for a newly reorganized Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday afternoon were to fire its county adm…
Editor’s Note: Leonard Pitts is on vacation. His column will resume in this space on Mondays after he returns.
Ah, Twitter, the modern-day source of unnecessary information and quick amusement. The casual tweet can illuminate or enrage as pundits, performers and politicians reveal their inner thoughts in brief bursts, leaving some longing for the more intellectual days of bumper-sticker politics.
The Democratic Party’s problem with Hispanic voters is worse than leaders think, according to a new assessment by the highly regarded strategi…
Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not support the Democrats’ giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has …
By a narrow 5-4 margin, Danville City Council voted Tuesday evening to follow state law and move its local elections from May to November.
Charlottesville’s statue of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is headed to LAXART in Los Angeles for an exhibit that will be installed at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. City Council unanimously voted on the disposition of the statue as part of the consent agenda Monday evening.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin all but delivered a death blow to President Joe Biden's $2 trillion domestic initiative, throwing his party's agen…
President Joe Biden has pledged to "keep up the fight" for stalled voting rights legislation as he addressed graduates at South Carolina State…
President Joe Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats are racing to pass their massive social spending bill, known as Build Back Better, before Chris…
The House voted Tuesday to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress after he ceased to cooperate with the J…
The House voted Tuesday to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress after he ceased to cooperate with the J…
A review by The Associated Press in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 cases of po…
The Associated Press reviewed every potential case of voter fraud in six battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It found fewer than 475.
The House will vote Tuesday on recommending criminal contempt charges against former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, rebuking him aft…
President Joe Biden closed his two-day virtual Summit for Democracy by pledging to bolster democracy at home. "The sacred right to vote, to vo…
Starbucks workers have voted to unionize at a store in Buffalo, New York over the company's objections, raising the possibility of a new labor…
One theme of Democratic control of Washington has been frustration, especially among the party’s progressive wing and its cheerleaders in the …
Danville City Council shot down a motion to move local elections from May to November, which would put the city's local government in violation of a new state law that went into effect July 1.
The Richmond School Board on Monday became first in the state to approve collective bargaining.