May 6, 2023, 3:22pm Nation & World
As House Republicans sit down to write their fiscal 2024 spending bills, appropriators are vowing to protect defense, veterans and border security funding from cuts. Some are pushing to add another spending category to the protected list: NASA. Read story
May 5, 2023, 10:31am Northwest
One year after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion marked the beginning of the end of the national right to an abortion, the Senate’s top appropriator and president pro tempore warned against taking the foot off the gas pedal in Democrats’ fight to protect and expand access to… Read story
May 2, 2023, 3:35pm Nation & World
House Democrats worked to get around Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republican leaders with a procedural move that could speed up a vote on a debt ceiling increase as U.S. default looms as soon as June 1. Read story
May 1, 2023, 2:13pm Health
The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday. Read story
April 29, 2023, 7:41pm Nation & World
A Southern California man who assaulted police with pepper spray during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison, federal authorities announced. Read story
April 28, 2023, 1:17pm Politics
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 31 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes who were serving time in home confinement, the White House announced Friday. Read story
April 26, 2023, 8:09pm Nation & World
The Supreme Court is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the justices’ ethical practices: No need to fix what isn’t broken. Read story
April 26, 2023, 4:33pm Health
U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants. Read story
April 25, 2023, 8:04am Latest News
Sen. Patty Murray ‘s history-making 10,000th vote in the Senate last week as the first woman to reach that mark is the latest milestone in a long career that has seen her break several records in the chamber long dominated by men. Read story
April 24, 2023, 3:41pm Politics
The House Homeland Security Committee released proposed legislation Monday that would restart border wall construction, increase the number of Border Patrol agents and modernize border security technology. Read story
