Freshman Colorado Democrat Jason Crow did not vote for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House. She chose him anyway for the House impeachment management team.
The ERA's provisions include a guarantee that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of sex." But its legal status is uncertain.
Text messages released by Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas suggest a disturbing focus by Trump associates on getting the U.S. ambassador to Kyiv, Marie Yovanovitch, out of the way.
The order is a blow for the White House, which essentially tried to give state and local government officials power to veto resettlement. The judge says that appears to violate the Refugee Act.
A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found major failings at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, one of the nation's largest immigration detention centers.
Gov. Ralph Northam said that "there are groups with malicious plans" and raised concerns about a reprise of the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville in 2017.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, R-Calif., was picked to be the lead manager of the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. He speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish.
After a historic year for abortion legislation in statehouses in 2019, the stakes have only increased for advocates on both sides of the issue as legislatures reconvene this year.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reveals the prosecution team for the Senate impeachment trial, and the House votes to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate for the trial to begin on Tuesday.