This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant has been convicted. Congress was given the power to ...

The latest victory for opponents of a skyway gondola project that would carry fans to and from Dodger Stadium came last week in Sacramento, when an amendment to a transit bill that would expedite the ...

Republican U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan supported a proposed amendment that would have added protections for a project to restore passenger rail service between Scranton and New York City — an amendment a ...