Workday and PayPal announced layoffs Tuesday, following other widespread layoffs hitting the tech industry.   Meanwhile, the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East and North Africa announced they are including cybersecurity collaboration as part of its expansion of a 2020 agreement to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel and some Arab countries. This is Hillicon...

Russia’s refusal to engage with the U.S. on resuming nuclear arms inspections has taken another worrying turn, with the State Department telling Congress that Moscow is in noncompliance. We’ve got the breakdown of the State Department report and what Russia has said about the nuclear treaty. Plus: The details on a strengthening alliance between the...

A coalition of moderate House Democrats is offering a helping hand to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden in debt limit talks while urging them to work toward “good faith negotiations” as both leaders prepare to meet on Wednesday.  "With the deadline to increase the statutory debt limit only a few months away, we...

Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) decision to step away from committee assignments is colliding with another controversy over committees: House Republicans’ quest to block Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs panel. There is no public indication that GOP leadership pushed Santos to step down to make it easier to block Omar from the House...

The Biden administration is blocking the construction of a gold and copper mine over concerns about impacts to an Alaska salmon fishery. Meanwhile, six states are saying they found a compromise on water cuts amid a drought along the Colorado River, and ExxonMobil reports record profits. This is Energy & Environment, your source for...

The Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates after seven hikes last year, as the central bank tries to tamp down inflation while avoiding a recession. The Fed’s monetary policy committee is meeting in the nation’s capital Jan. 31-Feb. 1 for its first meeting of 2023. The country continues to grapple with economic issues as...

Maine regulators have given final approval to a wind power project that would provide electricity to a minimum of 450,000 homes in New England.

A San Francisco pizza shop fired an employee who allegedly told police officers they weren't welcome in the restaurant.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D.-Calif., continues dishing out campaign cash to her daughter to run a moneymaking slate mailer operation involving California politicians.

Democratic Pennsylvania House Speaker Mark Rozzi, elected earlier this month as a 'compromise candidate,' says he has no intentions of forfeiting the speakership in the future.