Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Wednesday that she has secured over $415 million in funding for the Air Force Research Lab in Rome, New York, for fiscal 2024. It is a "historic amount of funding for the lab and its critical mission," the New York Republican said in a statement.

President Biden vowed this week that the federal government would foot the entire bill for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge and provide other funds to Maryland in the wake of the disaster.

Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by his family.

Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who says she lost a 2022 race for governor because of fraud, is declining to defend against a defamation lawsuit filed by a top election official.

U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Richmond, is under investigation by the House ethics committee, the bipartisan panel announced. It did not specify the focus of the investigation, but Nehls said it was related to his campaign's finances.

Normally, Republicans would celebrate the fact that federal workers showed up at their office. But the employees who came to the Labor Department's Boston office last week weren't there to work -- they were there, in person, to protest having to show up for in-person work.

House Oversight Chair James Comer invited Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to testify at a hearing looking at the administration's actions on various energy issues.

The Biden administration said Wednesday it is looking at putting artificial intelligence "nutrition labels" on new tech products similar to the Food and Drug Administration's mandatory food labeling regime.

A majority of Americans favor Israel brokering a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority amid the war in Gaza -- yet that support plummets when respondents are told the authority could include Hamas militants in a unity government.

The case against Donald Trump seemed relatively straightforward in August 2022 when FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate, with authorities citing evidence that the former president hoarded enough classified documents to fill dozens of boxes and obstructed the government's efforts to retrieve them.