The Pentagon is investing nearly half a billion dollars in a Maine-based defense manufacturing company to help break China's chokehold on tungsten, a chemical element used to produce armor-piercing ammunition and missile components.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to revive President Trump's attempt to use the post office to police mailed ballots in this year's election, delivering a major blow to his hopes of controlling voting practices.
Senate Republicans revised sweeping legislation to regulate cryptocurrency to appease Democrats' concerns about federal officials profiting off the industry, but it may not be enough to overcome a filibuster.
A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November's elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal ...
A federal judge on Monday ordered Homeland Security not to carry out its new rule limiting how long foreign students and journalists can remain in the U.S., delivering a barrage of withering shots at the Trump administration for the policy.
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated the wife of "God Bless the USA" singer Lee Greenwood to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
Global warming will lead to more elderly people making emergency room visits, but fewer of them will actually die -- and overall emergency room spending should drop, according to new research by the Congressional Budget Office.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is advocating for Congress to enact guardrails on advanced artificial intelligence but says lawmakers should have a "light touch."
Power companies NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy, which are seeking approval to merge into one behemoth, announced plans Monday to sweeten the deal in Virginia, Dominion's home base, where the proposal has faced skepticism from the Democratic ...