Idaho is seeking to join Texas with a proposed bill that would allow local police to check people's immigration and make it a state crime for undocumented immigrants to enter the state. Why it matters: GOP-led states are expected to see legislation allowing them to enforce federal immigration law amid a friendly incoming Trump administration despite concerns over constitutionality.

The bill would give police in Idaho authority to charge people with misdemeanors and felonies for living in the U.S. without authorization.

Frigid temperatures engulfed Texas and other parts of the South on Monday ahead of a rare winter storm expected to bring heavy snow and disruptive ice accumulations to the region,

The states of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri made the request in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas. The only judge based there is Matthew Kacsmaryk, a nominee of former President Donald Trump who ...

Jaron Crane, R-Nampa, presented the legislation, which is modeled after Texas’ SB 4 — a law that ... level offense for individuals entering Idaho from a foreign nation outside of the ...

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri requested late last year to pursue the case in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling finding that abortion opponents who ...

The Idaho bill is modeled after a Texas law, passed last year, that gives local law enforcement authority to enforce illegal entry into the U.S. The law, which a number of other states have sought ...

A federal judge in Texas ruled that three states can challenge the current rules of accessibility for abortion pills.

The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone

On New Year’s Day, three people went into the Buc-ee’s office and stole the “Buc-ee the Beaver” mascot costume, police said. The three took the head, gloves, shirt and feet of the costume, which totaled over $1,900, according to police. Surveillance footage showed three males going into the office, authorities said.

Americans are divided on a second Trump presidency. It’s why The Washington Post is asking Americans in real time about their reactions to his inaugural address in collaboration with George Mason University's Schar School. Here is what they had to say before Trump’s speech.