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WASHINGTON — Sometimes the firing squad lines up in a circle. At least, that’s how it seemed by Tuesday morning after the House Progressive Caucus released and then hastily withdrew a letter to the White House questioning President Biden’s policy... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold its first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale on Dec. 6 for areas on the Outer Continental Shelf off central and northern California. In addition to being the first-ever offshore wind lease... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy last week awarded $2.8 billion to 20 companies to build and expand commercial-scale facilities in 12 states to extract and process lithium, graphite and other battery materials, manufacture components, and demonstrate new approaches, including manufacturing... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee last week advanced a bill intended to rein in the power of OPEC+ after the oil producer group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to dramatically cut their output.  That means if Senate... Read More

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — U.S. home prices recorded a second consecutive month-over-month decline in August, something that hasn't happened since 2012, according to an analysis by the ING Group. Demand is weakening as mortgage rates surge while housing inventory for sale... Read More

WASHINGTON — Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, is urging his colleagues to take up legislation during the upcoming lame duck session of the 117th Congress to allow Medicare beneficiaries to more easily have virtual appointments with their doctors. Schatz has led... Read More

WASHINGTON — Though the polls are once again suggesting a slight tilt toward the Republicans ahead of the midterms, President Joe Biden was having none of that as he delivered what he called his “closing argument” for his party in... Read More

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s attorney general is ordering an audit of autopsies of people who died in law enforcement custody after a panel of experts determined the lab reports might have been tainted by political favoritism. The review will cover 100... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Energy Department has awarded $38 million to support a dozen projects intended to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel disposal.  The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop... Read More

WASHINGTON – Less than 24 hours after a federal judge said it could proceed, a federal appeals court has temporarily pumped the brakes on President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. The temporary stay of the program by the 8th U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court order forcing him to testify before a grand jury about former President Donald Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election in Georgia. In a... Read More

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators on Friday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to use its upcoming decision on the Renewable Fuel Standard to “chart a new course for biofuels” to meet the nation’s “diverse energy demands.” In a... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol formally issued a subpoena to former President Donald Trump on Friday, potentially setting the stage for a landmark court battle likely to end in the... Read More

SEATTLE — A team of University of Washington researchers have developed a new method for assessing the health risks of what we consume, an approach they say will make it a lot easier for people to determine for themselves which... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is taking new steps to increase accountability of bad actors in the nursing home industry, improve the quality of nursing homes and make them safer. The new initiatives follow up on President Joe Biden’s promise... Read More

WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in jail Friday in the first criminal conviction for contempt of Congress since the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s. Bannon had been a political strategist for former President Donald Trump... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Planning for Animal Wellness Act into law this week, garnering praise from animal rights advocates who’ve argued for years that federal guidance on best practices to protect animals in emergencies and disasters... Read More

WASHINGTON — There are fewer than 20 days left until the critical midterm elections, with early voting underway or about to get underway in several battleground states. While many close races are predicted, a sampling of the opinions of political... Read More

WASHINGTON — Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday evening turned down, without explanation, an emergency request from a Wisconsin taxpayers group to halt the Biden administration's student loan relief plan. Barrett, who handles appeals from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court... Read More

MISSOULA, Mont. — An environmental group is suing the U.S. Forest Service for the flame retardant it drops on western wildfires, saying the chemical pollutes waterways and violates the Clean Water Act.  The Forest Service dropped more than 761,000 gallons... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Google on Thursday, alleging the tech giant has unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without properly obtaining their informed consent to do so.  The 32-page complaint, filed... Read More

WASHINGTON — Tony Payne, 80, of Tunnel Hill, Georgia, is facing multiple gun charges Thursday morning after he illegally parked his van on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon. U.S. Capitol police officers first noticed the white van... Read More

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Russian public policy researcher was acquitted Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, of lying to the FBI during the 2016 investigation of whether the Russian government tried to help Donald Trump get elected president. The... Read More

WASHINGTON — An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted Wednesday to recommend that a drug intended to prevent women from having preterm births be removed from the market. Makena, manufactured by Covis Pharma, is the only approved... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will release 15 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, and may consider releasing significantly more this winter, in an effort to ease high gasoline prices. The announcement comes in the wake of several polls... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a complaint to block the sale of Chill6, a beverage powder marketed as a treatment or cure for anxiety, insomnia, alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder. According to the complaint filed in the... Read More

Black-white disparities exist in fertility medicine, reflected in life-and-death outcomes for babies, according to a large study of U.S. births. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics, is the broadest look yet at racial gaps for women who use in... Read More

WASHINGTON — White Adults were twice as likely as Black adults treated at advanced heart failure centers to receive potentially life-changing therapies, such as transplants and mechanical heart pumps, a new National Institutes of Health-supported study has found. Researchers followed... Read More

NEW YORK — A first-of-its-kind study has found that 83% of the 114 waterways tested across the country were contaminated by dangerous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.  Over the course of the study, 113 local Waterkeeper groups collected samples from 114... Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Late last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a windfall tax on oil companies that would be reverted back to California taxpayers. Such a tax is necessary, Newsom said, because they have “failed to provide an... Read More