{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story DOE eyes using plutonium for nuclear power The Energy Department may allow up to five companies to use its surplus plutonium, which has historically been used in nuclear warheads, as fuel. © Ted Shaffrey, Associated Press The department has selected the firms for “advanced...

A major defense policy bill released by House Republicans Tuesday looks to maintain limits on how many U.S. troops can be moved from Europe and South Korea and bars construction of the first “Trump-class” battleship until the Navy can prove it has the technology to make it. The draft text of the legislation, known as the...

Texas redistricting forced Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee into an incumbent-on-incumbent Democratic runoff in Houston's 18th District.

President Trump canceled plans for a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with President Donald Trump's administration in a lawsuit over speech restrictions for immigration judges that touched on the rights of federal workers.

Republicans' redistricting offensive suffered a series of setbacks Tuesday when South Carolina's GOP-run legislature rejected a new map and federal judges tossed out Alabama's redrawn congressional districts.