In The News

WASHINGTON — Suspicions shifted sharply Wednesday at a congressional hearing toward a lab leak as the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bigger question confronted by the House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee was what can be done to stop the... Read More

WASHINGTON — A month after Syria experienced the first of two earthquakes in the early hours of Feb. 6, and as it continues to experience aftershocks that further compound the country’s devastation after more than a decade of civil war,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is investing over $25 million from the Inflation Reduction Act to advance an effort to restore wild and healthy populations of American bison and the prairie grassland ecosystem. Through a wide-ranging initiative announced last week,... Read More

WASHINGTON — Firefighters from across the nation gathered for a rally at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to urge Congress to fund the research and development of PFAS-free protective gear and fire extinguishing equipment. “We need to get these toxic carcinogens... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days after federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home for classified documents, FBI Director Christopher Wray emailed his workforce urging them to tune out criticism from those who “don’t know what we know and don’t see... Read More

WASHINGTON — While the economics of climate change is a very nuanced topic, scientists and economists have recently released a pair of papers attempting to prove not only that climate change is an economic issue, but there is an economic... Read More

DENVER — Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in Jefferson County, Colorado, for a moderated conversation with Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., and professional female rock climber Sasha DiGiulian this week to discuss the administration’s investments to combat climate change.  She came... Read More

WASHINGTON — A temperature-stable, experimental tuberculosis vaccine has been found safe and effective in a clinical phase 1 trial involving healthy adults conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A non-temperature stable form of the candidate previously... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a proposed rule on Monday with new regulatory requirements to better align the voluntary “Product of USA” label claim with consumers’ understanding of what the claim means. The proposed rule allows the... Read More

WASHINGTON — When the Inflation Reduction Act became law last year, it empowered the Health and Human Services secretary, for the first time ever, to begin negotiating certain prescription drug prices with drug manufacturers. The prices would go into effect... Read More

WASHINGTON — Judith Heumann, who spent decades championing the rights of disabled people from inside and outside of the system, died on Saturday at 75. No cause was given in the announcement that was posted on her website. Born on... Read More

WASHINGTON — After six months of gathering public comment, two agencies of the U.S. Department of Energy have concluded that commercial trucks, RVs, buses and local delivery fleet vehicles are the biggest market opportunity when it comes to integrating solar... Read More

WASHINGTON — Ambassadors of the European Union, Sweden — as holder of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union — and Ukraine, joined the Atlantic Council to discuss Europe’s role in Ukraine’s future this week. Coming on the... Read More

WASHINGTON — In yet another sign that the COVID crisis is largely over, DC Health announced Friday that it will be closing the COVID Centers it opened around the city during the pandemic on Friday, March 31. The decision to... Read More

BERKELEY, Calif. — An analysis of the impact of construction of large-scale solar energy projects on nearby residential home values found the decline in property values varied significantly by state, but averaged out to a home sale price reduction of... Read More

BATON ROUGE, La. — Natural gas and electric service provider Entergy Louisiana has asked state regulators to approve its plan to add 225 MW of solar power to its generation mix in Louisiana. The company filed its request with the... Read More

WASHINGTON — An independent nonprofit will hold a briefing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 9, on the funding available through the Inflation Reduction and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Acts to help mitigate climate change and strengthen critical infrastructure.... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Dept. of Veterans Affairs is relaxing COVID-era masking rules at its medical facilities in an attempt, it says, to better accommodate individual preferences. Moving forward, the department said it will base its masking guidelines on the Veterans... Read More

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Stellantis North America plans to invest $155 million in three Kokomo, Indiana, manufacturing plants that will be dedicated to the production of new drive modules for electric vehicles. Stellantis, whose parent company is headquartered in Amsterdam,... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is launching an investigation into embattled Republican Rep. George Santos, the New York congressman whose lies and embellishments about his resume and personal life have drawn deep scrutiny. The investigation appears to... Read More

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump should not be able to claim executive immunity from liability claims arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said in a court filing on Thursday. The filing... Read More

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court this week blocked possibilities for the Equal Rights Amendment to make it into the U.S. Constitution anytime soon by saying states that ratified it in 2020 were too late. Although the Equal Rights Amendment... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has awarded nearly $5 billion from the Capital Projects Fund to pay for broadband expansion projects in 33 states, and expects to bestow the remaining $5 billion by the end of the year, the program’s... Read More

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has accepted an appointment to serve as a professor of practice at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. The university said Wednesday that the appointment is effective immediately and will run... Read More

ORLANDO, Fla. — Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds received the Renewable Fuels Association’s annual Industry Award on Thursday for her efforts to convince the Biden administration to end a prohibition on sales of E15 gasoline during the summer. As reported... Read More

WASHINGTON — “It is strange … to see Elizabeth Warren and Mitt Romney promoting the same thing,” Sen. Romney, R-Utah, quipped at an advocacy event Wednesday night in the Senate Hart building. His pledge to the late Sen. Orrin Hatch,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to enact a change in the nation’s fuel policy, allowing the year-round sale of higher-ethanol E15 gasoline. Led by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, the governors and other lawmakers from several... Read More

WASHINGTON — Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Mike Braun, R-Ind., reintroduced a trio of bills Wednesday aimed at reforming how the Food and Drug Administration approves and manages opioid medications. “In the last year, more than 106,000 Americans and 1,400... Read More

WASHINGTON — A panel of advisors to the Food and Drug Administration narrowly voted on Tuesday to endorse an experimental vaccine from Pfizer to protect older adults against the highly contagious lower respiratory tract ailment RSV. The advisors voted 7-4... Read More

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County agreed Tuesday to pay the family of Kobe Bryant $28.8 million after his wife sued over gruesome photos sheriff's deputies and firefighters displayed of the helicopter crash scene where the basketball star and his... Read More