Gov. Roy Cooper's administration is aiming to extend Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults starting Oct. 1, but that date depends on lawmakers completing the last step necessary to implement the expansion legislation he signed into law months ago.

Allowing transgender Kansas residents to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list the sex they were assigned at birth on their driver's licenses would create a legal "morass," the state's Republican attorney general argued in a new court filing.

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to tax fraud and a gun charge after a federal judge asked for more information from lawyers about the deal struck between prosecutors and defense attorneys.

The White House has nominated a career air mobility pilot with key deployments in Afghanistan and Europe to serve as the Air Force's next top general.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wanted the public to know he wasn't smiling Wednesday as he faced intense criticism from Republicans over his job performance.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said impeachment is not off the table for other Biden Cabinet members just because Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the possibility of an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.

President Biden picked Harry Coker, a national security professional with experience at the CIA and National Security Agency, to fill the vacant National Cyber Director position responsible for coordinating federal cyber policy.

Bringing some excitement to Washington, purported UFO whistleblower David Grusch testified before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Grusch was joined by two former United States Navy aviators, Commander David Fravor (ret.) and Ryan Graves (ret.).

Ben Shapiro blasted Barbie as a "flaming garbage heap of a film" and "one of the most woke movies I have ever seen." Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec said that the "man-hating" "horror show" was a mere "woke propaganda fest." From the mainstream to the alt-right, conservative elites seemed united in their loathing of the first live-action adaptation of the world's bestselling doll.

Economist Thomas Sowell famously quipped, “Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero.” This is likely the turn of phrase that most clearly juxtaposes the good intentions of minimum wage laws and their effects on people.