Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Here's what the strict measure really means for undocumented ...

The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Thursday easily advanced former Georgia GOP Rep. Doug Collins’s nomination to be the secretary of Veterans Affairs, setting him up for a full Senate vote ...

Pressed for reactions to Donald Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 criminals, including violent felons, many congressional Republicans have at least tried to adopt a forward-thinking posture. For example, ...

Who was Laken Riley? Georgia nursing student who was brutally killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, who entered the US illegally in September 2022.

Enter ALEC, a right wing policy center that churns out bills for Republican state legislatures to cut and paste into the law ...

Some Georgia Democrats say they're playing catch-up after Republicans used immigration concerns to power electoral gains in November.

The House has passed a bill to require the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes. The Laken ...

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

Democratic Georgia state Sen. Emanuel Jones filed paperwork to challenge the seat of Rep. David Scott (D-GA), 79, who has held it for over 20 years.

Almost one year after Laken Riley’s murder in Athens, the bill bearing her name passed its final Congressional vote Wednesday and now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk.

The House voted 263 to 156 to approve the Laken Riley act, sending the measure to Trump for his signature. The measure would ...