Nine Senate Democrats wrote to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on August 3 asking whether the agency will prohibit the exchanges it registers from listing contracts that let people bet on ...
A federal judge in Washington dismissed the seditious conspiracy indictment against eight members of the Oath Keepers on August 4, ending the last criminal prosecution arising fro ...
As the captured Venezuelan leader was flown to New York to face federal charges, Senate Democrats moved to check what they called an unauthorized march toward another open-ended war.
The funding deadline remains the more immediate pressure point. Fox News reported that without a new agreement by Jan. 30, federal agencies would again face a lapse in appropriations, and that the ...
PolitiFact says the administration has offered no evidence of drugs aboard the targeted vessels, while analysts and rights groups question the strikes' legality.
In Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, the number of people who get SNAP benefits has decreased by about 12% since 2025. SNAP enrollment rates vary widely across the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area ...
It was a huge win in 2023 when our national contract campaign made UPS end its two-tier driver program. After the lower-tier drivers moved up to regular, our center in Charleston, South Carolina, had ...
Recent megafires have turned large expanses once covered in forest into fields of shrubs or grass. The blazes were simply too hot for conifers to regenerate, and Safford’s study found that efforts to ...
The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show ...
Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general cleared a major hurdle this week after two Republican senators who had raised concerns agreed to back him. Blanche gave written assurances that a $1.8 ...
A coalition of privacy and civil liberties advocates has asked a federal court to halt what they describe as a secret government effort to compile records on people who watch and film immigration ...
No facility on the agency’s own website showed evidence of more than one inspection last year, though the standards call for two, and the number of people held in detention rose 78% over the same ...