The Biden administration is tightening air pollution restrictions — a move that it says will save thousands of lives but is meeting pushback from industry which argues that it will harm the economy. The decision to tighten the restrictions on pollution from small particles, commonly referred to as soot, comes as a reversal of the...
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) argued a vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas would have “opened Pandora’s box" in a recent op-ed. Gallagher was one of three Republicans to vote against the bill, which ultimately caused it to fail. “[Mayorkas’s] performance has been a disgrace,” Gallagher wrote Tuesday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed,...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to strip the bipartisan border security deal from the emergency defense spending bill, and bring a package funding the war in Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific region and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and Gaza to the Senate floor Wednesday. Senators expect the legislation to pass without the border security...
AG Patrick Morrisey, ex-state delegate Moore Capito, car dealer Chris Miller, and Secretary of State Mac Warner are running for the Republican nomination for governor of WV.
U.S. lawmakers are taking action to address the housing crisis, proposing measures such as eviction protections, zoning reforms and rent increase caps.
U.S. Defense chief Lloyd Austin will testify before House lawmakers on his secret hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment after apologizing to President Biden.
A former attorney for the Trump White House predicts that the Supreme Court will rule unanimously against the 45th president on his claims to be immune from criminal prosecution. Ty Cobb, who was special counsel to the White House as Trump sought to fend off the investigation headed by Robert Mueller, was speaking after an...
President Biden is trying to stitch back together his 2020 coalition as he goes into the general election with a much more fractured Democratic Party than four years ago. Biden has focused on union workers and Black voters in pivotal states of Michigan and Nevada in recent days, underscoring his need to rebuild and solidify the coalition...