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Journeys — near and far, into the past and even into near space — are the subject of the novels, memoirs and narrative histories that make up critic Maureen Corrigan's summer reading list.

Big majorities are more likely to make history, either by passing new laws that really matter or by frustrating a president who has big plans.

State laws on abortion keep changing – with new bans taking effect in some places while new protections are enacted in others. And abortion will be on the ballot in at least four states.

After a firehose of a first six weeks back in the White House, President Trump delivered a boastful and partisan address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Here are six takeaways from the speech.

On the same night in Florida, two police officers were fatally shot in Kissimmee, near Orlando, and two were shot in Jacksonville. Two others were shot in Pennsylvania.

Here, some takeaways from new research that finds that families rise and fall across generations at a much slower rate than anyone thought. For example, the research finds that French-Canadian immigrants are a disadvantaged minority in the U.S.

As Democrats wrap their third night in Chicago, the Democratic National Convention continues its message of freedom and readies itself for its final night: the speech from Vice President Harris.

We asked people who immigrated to the United States what the day meant to them — and how their feelings about the holiday have changed since they first arrived.

All the available evidence suggests that a miniscule number of noncitizens vote illegally in federal elections and not in numbers that would sway the outcome of any race.

The midterms marked a drubbing for Democrats. Republicans picked up at least seven Senate seats, wresting control of the chamber and setting up a divided government for at least the next two years.