The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday announced an investigation into Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for "dereliction of duty," launching what lawmakers expect to be a months-long push to impeach the head of the Homeland Security Department.

Sen. Joni Ernst has announced legislation to take away IRS agents' guns and ammunition, saying it makes no sense for an agency that enforces civil tax laws to arm employees.

House lawmakers filed bipartisan legislation Wednesday to impose new penalties on traffickers who use pill presses to lace fake prescription drugs with fentanyl, meth and other dangerous drugs.

Just one day after pleading not guilty in Miami to his second indictment of the year, former president Donald Trump is celebrating his 77th birthday. One year older may not always mean one year wiser, but in this case, it does mean the former president has hit a landmark milestone: He has reached the average life expectancy for an American man.

San Diego is ignoring its homelessness problem by shoving its poor into a small ghetto called “the Bottoms.”

The delivery company UPS and a union representing workers have reached a tentative agreement to add air conditioning to trucks that could help avoid a possible national strike that workers have threatened. UPS said in a release on Tuesday that it reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to implement “heat safety measures” for workers....

The investment requirements for adaptation are huge, and they are growing every day as rising emissions are increasing adaptation needs.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Wednesday that he is “flattered” by a Republican push to censure him, suggesting that the resolution was driven by hopes of distracting from former President Trump’s legal woes. “This is really an effort at the end of the day to distract from Donald Trump’s legal problems, to gratify Donald...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Tuesday returned to an Obama-era standard for determining independent-contractor status — effectively broadening the number of people who have a protected right to unionize under the National Labor Relations Act. The ruling rejected the 2019 decision that the “animating principle” of determining employee status of independent contractors should be...

The NAACP sent an open letter to President Biden on Tuesday night admonishing his agreement to end the pause on federal student loan payments as part of negotiations with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to resolve the debt ceiling crisis.  The organization said the ramifications will only perpetuate a cycle of poverty disproportionately affecting Black Americans. Though the...