President Biden's EPA scrapped a Trump administration plan that would have cut animal testing by 30% in 2025 and ended it altogether by 2035. Instead, the agency says it won't be bound by any time limits and is following "the best available science."
Immigrant rights groups are alerting President Biden of political consequences if he strikes a deal with Republicans to try to fix the chaos at the southern border, saying Latino voters won't forgive him when he needs their votes next year.
Congress' annual Pentagon policy bill is expected to pass the Senate in a bipartisan vote Wednesday, but it has caused turmoil within the House GOP over policy changes and an extension to the government's spying powers.
House investigators say Hunter Biden tried to qualify his father's claim of not playing a role in his family's business deals with a new explanation that gives the president more legal and political wiggle room.
A bipartisan group of senators is trying to strip reauthorization of the government's chief surveillance power from the annual Pentagon policy spending bill, threatening plans to finish the must-pass bill before Congress adjourns for the year on Thursday.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, wants to encourage fathers to be more involved with their children, starting with the months before they're born.
Federal prison guards left an inmate for 21 hours inside a wire cage little bigger than a phone booth, according to an inspector general who issued an emergency alert prodding the government to come up with new rules to govern the practice.