Oil companies have offered a combined $264 million in a drilling rights auction, which was mandated under a compromise reached last year over a federal climate bill.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is expected to return to work in mid-April after being treated for depression at an inpatient facility months after he beat Dr. Mehmet Oz in the midterm elections.
Tennesee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles fired back at a trans group saying its attempts to turn the Nashville school shooter into a "martyr" is "beyond disturbing."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged a question Wednesday on whether President Biden’s proposed "assault weapons" ban will lead to confiscation.
U.S. Congress Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter account was suspended on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the rules when she posted about Trans Day of Vengeance.
An indigenous elder was barred from performing during former President Obama's Australian speaking tour after allegedly being "too difficult," according to event organizers.
The Senate approved a bill blocking a federal environmental regulation in a bipartisan rebuke of President Biden's climate agenda, setting up a likely veto.
Following a lawsuit over the forced cancellation of a drag show at West Texas A&M, a federal judge has denied students' request for a preliminary injunction that would allow the show to continue.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby urged China not to overreact as Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen transits the United States for the seventh time.
The Biden administration moved forward with an enormous 73-million-acre Gulf of Mexico fossil fuel lease sale Wednesday, bucking climate activists who opposed the action.
Democratic lawmakers have renewed an effort to fund research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that would track gun violence and study firearm safety following the Nashville school shooting.
Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, said diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts should be the nation's "highest priority." He's a prolific Democratic backer.
China is on a “disturbing" path to become militarily “superior" to the United States by mid-century, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testified Wednesday.
Attorney General Merrick Garland declined a request to look at whether the civil rights of some Jan. 6 defendants have been violated after being held for so long.
Lamont Bagby, a Democrat from Virginia, won a special election to fill a seat on the state Senate. About 90% of voters voted for Bagby in the contest against Republican Stephen Imholt.
Sophia Kianni, an youth climate activist recently hired by the United Nations as an adviser, is calling for governments to implement pandemic measures to fight global warming.