The Senate is debating whether to repeal, expand or keep a new law that allows senators to sue the government for damages if their phone records are accessed for a federal investigation without their knowledge.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday shut down a lower judge's orders that had tried to limit federal officials from using tear gas and other aggressive crowd control measures in the Chicago area.
Farmed oysters in Hiroshima Prefecture have been dying off in large quantities, prompting the government to investigate the cause and look for ways to support farmers of the seafood.
The public is fed up with lawmakers getting rich off the stock market while serving in Congress, and now a bipartisan House coalition may soon ban them from trading.
The Labor Department announced Wednesday that it won't be releasing its monthly jobs report for October because the record-breaking government shutdown prevented it from collecting necessary data.
China's communist government is developing new capabilities for cutting undersea communications cables as part of its large-scale military buildup and preparation for war, according to a new congressional report.