The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jay Clayton to serve as director of National Intelligence, a position that oversees 18 disparate intelligence agencies across the government.

The Health and Human Services Department announced a new policy Tuesday banning federal funding for "dangerous" gain-of-function research -- a kind of risky experiment that enhances viruses to try to predict how dangerous they might become.

For more than a month, Bobby Kuchinsky arrived at his restaurant each morning worried about whether he still had enough staff or if this might be the last shift for some of his Haitian workers, who have spent over a decade as cooks, busboys and oyster shuckers.

Democrats are struggling to catch up to Republicans in the fundraising and ad spending wars with less than 100 days until the midterm elections happen in November.