The Biden administration announced nearly $3.5 billion in funding Wednesday to strengthen United States power grids in an effort to boost reliability and avoid capacity shortfalls or blackouts during extreme weather events.
A major law firm has rescinded its offer of employment to three students at Harvard and Columbia law schools who endorsed statements that blamed Israel for a series of terrorist attacks by Hamas.
A black man who spent 16 years in a Florida prison after being wrongly convicted of a 2004 armed robbery was shot and killed by a Georgia sheriff's deputy who pulled him over for speeding on Monday.
While Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) lost 22 Republican votes in his bid to become the next House speaker on Wednesday, he also gained the votes of two GOP lawmakers who voted against him on the first ballot.
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) grilled President Joe Biden's nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health, Monica Bertagnolli, on Wednesday over her willingness to comply with the House of Representatives investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic should she be confirmed by the Senate.
The legality of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives could come down to the difference between "race-conscious" and "race-based" decision-making, according to federal employment law enforcers.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) couldn't garner the required 217 votes in the second speaker vote on the floor of the House of Representatives, with 22 Republicans voting against him on Tuesday.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to secure the majority needed to secure the speakership, falling short of the 217-vote threshold for the second time as the House scrambles to elect its next speaker.
