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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias told the U.S. Senate panel that public libraries have become “thunderdomes of controversy and strife” across the country.

State legislators learned the Capitol has no formal alert system for riots, or for health- or weather-related emergencies.

This weekend, hundreds of thousands plan to gather for the Women's March on Washington. Expected to be one of the largest demonstrations in American…

Hundreds of St. Louis women are planning to either travel to Washington D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington or attend a similar “sister march”…

Earlier this month, the first national museum devoted exclusively to African-American history and culture opened in Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian’s…

Not all of the news that you see and hear featured on St. Louis Public Radio comes from the St. Louis region itself—some of it comes from our reporters…

After a two-week Easter recess, legislators are back in Washington, D.C.“There’s a lot of trying to paint the other guy as the bad guy. There’s a lot of…

Events in Ferguson are drawing the attention of lawmakers in Washington, D.C.“I don’t think the issues that have been raised by the incidents in Ferguson…

In his new book This Town, self-described Washington insider Mark Leibovich paints an unattractive portrait of a capital focused on image, personal wealth…

In 1982, Ronald Reagan signed into law both the Highway Revenue Act and the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TERFA). The Highway Act raised…