President Biden is appointing Mandy Cohen, a former Obama administration official and health commissioner for North Carolina, as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The independent watchdog agency of Congress agreed Thursday to look into the impacts that offshore wind development could have on the environment, fishing industry and other areas.

A public process started Thursday to reshape the way Colorado River water is distributed, with federal officials promising to collect comments about updating and enacting rules in 2027 to continue providing hydropower, drinking water and irrigation to farms, cities and tribes in seven Western U.S. states and Mexico.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore emphatically pledged Thursday to get an east-west transit project back on track in Baltimore, nearly eight years after his predecessor pulled the plug on the Red Line.

The Biden campaign said Friday it secured 2024 endorsements from the AFL-CIO and 17 other unions, hoping to shore up President Biden as a champion of organized labor before a political speech Saturday at a union hall in Philadelphia.

Tennessee Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones have advanced past an election hurdle after the two young Black lawmakers were expelled earlier this year for their gun control protest on the House floor, then reinstated by local officials days afterward.

Republicans in Congress must resist their GOP colleagues Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), who are trying to obstruct the Biden administration from restricting United States investment into China's tech sector. The Biden administration's prospective executive order seems likely to broadly restrict U.S. capital flows into the Chinese tech sector. A broad restriction is needed in order to mitigate China's proven ability to circumvent narrower restrictions.

It was only a matter of time. Just as the president kicks off his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden has re-hired TJ Ducklo as his senior adviser for communications.

A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, dated January 2022, explains how federal agents obtain massive amounts of digital data on Americans without warrants.

THE GROWING REPUBLICAN CROWD. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced Thursday that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Suarez released a video of himself in athletic clothes running around Miami as dramatic music swelled behind him. "When I was elected, the city was broke and broken," he says in the video. "But we came together, and I won my mayoral election with over 80% of the vote." (Critics quickly pointed out that Miami has a city manager government in which the mayor has relatively little power.)