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Dave Calhoun, CEO of Boeing, is sworn in to the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Tuesday.

Senate report piles on new allegations of Boeing safety failures

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 18, 2024 at 4:18pm
John Podesta, senior adviser to the president for clean energy innovation, said the rules “will give clarity and certainty to developers and the workers they employ that clean energy jobs will be good jobs.”

Rules on clean energy prevailing wage, apprenticeships finalized

By David Jordan
Posted June 18, 2024 at 9:55am
Former President Donald Trump has targeted Biden administration environmental rules for repeal if he's elected.

Biden rules issued from now on vulnerable to repeal if he loses

By David Jordan
Posted June 18, 2024 at 5:00am
Empty infant beds sit gathered in a corner in a quiet maternity ward at rural Madera Community Hospital, which closed in January 2023, creating a lack of health care services for the blue-collar Central Valley agricultural community in Madera, Calif.

Wyden wants more Medicaid funding to keep obstetric units open

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 17, 2024 at 4:05pm
The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that "bump stocks" cannot be banned under a 1934 law.

Supreme Court wipes out ban on ‘bump stock’ firearm attachments

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 14, 2024 at 11:29am, Updated at 11:49am
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn speaks to a reporter in the Capitol on June 4.

Trump plan to eliminate tip tax garners Capitol Hill interest

By Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted June 13, 2024 at 7:14pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during Senate Democrats’ news conference in the Capitol on Feb. 27 to discuss the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization.

Senate falls short on IVF vote

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted June 13, 2024 at 3:27pm
Mike Whitaker, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing in February.

FAA’s Whitaker says agency ‘too hands off’ on Boeing

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 13, 2024 at 2:29pm
Activists protest at the Supreme Court as the justices hear oral arguments in the Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case on March 26.

Advocates see ‘temporary’ victory in abortion drug ruling

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 13, 2024 at 2:28pm
The Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in Washington.

Supreme Court rejects man’s bid to trademark ‘Trump too small’

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 13, 2024 at 11:32am
An abortion rights advocate shows a box of mifepristone outside the Supreme Court building in March.

Supreme Court rejects challenge to medication abortion drug

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 13, 2024 at 11:03am
A pregnant woman holds her stomach. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landscape for those with both reproductive and mental health needs has become more complicated.

Post-Dobbs, maternal mental health care is even more complicated

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 13, 2024 at 7:00am
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., speaks during a news conference in March. He has reintroduced a bill aimed at streamlining the prior authorization process for Medicare Advantage.

Bipartisan prior authorization legislation introduced

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 12, 2024 at 5:42pm
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., attends a news conference outside the Capitol. Durbin blasted the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday for not doing more to eliminate illegal vaping products that can be found in gas stations, vape shops and other retail locations.

FDA, DOJ hammered on response to illegal vapes

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 12, 2024 at 5:09pm
Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives are seen at the Freight 2030 event on Sept. 10, 2021, in Pittsburgh.

Railroad industry is running late on Biden’s climate track

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 12, 2024 at 6:59am
Rohit Chopra, director of the CFPB, testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing last November. Chopra was part of a Tuesday call announcing a proposed rule that would bar credit reporting agencies from including medical debt on credit reports sent to lenders.

Biden rule would ban medical debt from credit reports

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 11, 2024 at 5:42pm
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a convocation at Liberty University's Vines Center in Lynchburg, Va., on Friday, April 14, 2023.

Federal judge blocks Florida’s ban on transgender care

By Ariel Cohen
Posted June 11, 2024 at 5:40pm
Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney says he and others would like to see restrictions on dangerous outcomes from AI.

Downplaying AI’s existential risks is a fatal error, some say

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted June 11, 2024 at 7:00am
The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether hospitals with many low-income patients can be reimbursed at a lower rate under Medicare.

Supreme Court to decide Medicare reimbursement issue

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 10, 2024 at 6:26pm
“This bill disarms our military in the face of the climate crisis,” says House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro.

GOP’s fiscal 2025 spending bills heavy on climate change riders

By David Jordan
Posted June 10, 2024 at 2:56pm
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., talks on his phone before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Oct. 31, 2023.

Oregon casino battle works its way into appropriations process

By Aidan Quigley
Posted June 10, 2024 at 11:46am
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, center, has draft legislation on a federal privacy standard that’s the subject of intense debate over its scope.

Tech groups call for preempting state laws in privacy bill

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted June 10, 2024 at 7:43am
Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., leaves the U.S. Capitol. Barr lost his wife Carol, then 39, on June 16, 2020, after a cardiac event.

Push for defibrillators in schools becomes personal

By Ariel Cohen
Posted June 6, 2024 at 7:00am
Americans for Contraception unveil a 20-foot inflatable IUD outside Union Station in Washington on Wednesday.

Senate rejects move to codify right to contraception

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 5, 2024 at 6:19pm
Sen. Ben Ray Luján is pushing for a House vote on a Senate bill to expand the fund under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that would compensate those harmed by radiation from America’s development of nuclear weapons.

House departure leaves radiation compensation fund in limbo

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 5, 2024 at 6:01pm
Visitors walk across the Supreme Court plaza last October. The court is expected to issue a decision soon that could discard or limit the Chevron doctrine.

What would Congress do without Chevron deference?

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 5, 2024 at 3:16pm
Abortion rights activists protest as oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization are held on Dec. 1, 2021.

Eyeing Dobbs anniversary, Senate plans IVF, contraception votes

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 4, 2024 at 7:08pm
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen testified to Congress that projects have not delivered the quality or quantity of emissions savings claimed.

Biden administration moves to raise trust in carbon markets

By David Jordan
Posted June 4, 2024 at 1:38pm
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department "will vigorously enforce our antitrust laws," when the government filed suit against Google in 2023.

Congress asked to probe tech companies hiding antitrust evidence

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted June 4, 2024 at 1:03pm
Nebraska Republican Sen. Deb Fischer has expressed concerns about free speech as Congress looks to regulate artificial intelligence.

Congress wrestles with AI’s boost to campaigns, potential misuse

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted June 4, 2024 at 7:00am