North Carolina House lawmakers voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper's (D-NC) veto of a bill that would do away with background checks for handguns conducted by local law enforcement.
The Interior Department auctioned off 73 million acres for oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in its first offshore oil and gas lease sale in the region since 2021.
As Republicans continue to crack down on rising crime in Washington, D.C., a handful of lawmakers are turning their attention to education policies and high truancy rates, signaling a move by the GOP to expand its efforts to roll back the district’s local autonomy beyond just public safety.
Federal agencies are relying on the same sort of Chinese-made surveillance drones being used by the Russian military on the Ukraine battlefield — despite the United States government sanctioning the Beijing company.
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) confirmed she accepted the resignation of her press secretary, Josselyn Berry, following a tweet she made on Monday after the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
The U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., declined to prosecute nearly 70% of people arrested by police officers in 2022, almost doubling the declination rate within the last seven years.
The leader of the Department of Homeland Security told Congress on Wednesday that the Biden administration is "preparing" for a potential influx of immigrants at the border in mid-May when the pandemic-era policy Title 42 expires.
