All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2025 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom is enlisting veteran Republican lawmaker Ken Calvert to help push his $40 billion wildfire aid request through Congress and secure President Donald Trump’s backing for rebuilding...
Feb 25 2025 // Georgia lawmakers aren’t the only ones contemplating a major tort-reform bill during the legislative session this year. Next door, South Carolina’s General Assembly is considering Senate Bill 244, which...
Feb 13 2025 // The Mississippi Senate passed a bill Thursday that would eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the state’s universities, a priority elevated by Republican President Donald Trump.Senate Republicans...
Feb 3 2025 // Lawyers at the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been told they need to seek permission from the politically appointed leadership before formally launching probes, two sources briefed on the matter said, in a...
Jan 27 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental issues, according to three sources...
Jan 24 2025 // A U.S. auto safety agency said on Friday it is reconsidering a landmark rule from the administration of former President Joe Biden requiring nearly all new cars and trucks by 2029 to have advanced automatic emergency...
Jan 24 2025 // U.S. health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications and told employees to freeze travel after directives from the Department of Health and Human...
Jan 3 2025 // The Dartmouth men’s basketball team on Tuesday dropped its attempt to unionize, abruptly ending a push to become the first college athletes to bargain for a contract in order to avoid a potentially damaging precedent...
Jan 2 2025 // The U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget is a peculiar entity. The committee was established in 1974 in response to President Richard Nixon “impounding” money allocated by Congress to prevent spending on...
Dec 20 2024 // A Senate Budget Committee report shows how dangerous climate change is to the nation’s financial system as well as how bad it could be for homeowners seeking affordable insurance.A Senate Budget Committee Staff...
Dec 19 2024 // The U.S. Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday held a hearing to release a study they said confirms climate change is increasing non-renewal rates in multiple states, but the insurance industry clapped back by saying...
Dec 18 2024 // Amazon.com Inc. leaders rejected internal recommendations that the company relax warehouse worker productivity rates to curb injuries, according to a report from a congressional committee.Released Monday by the majority...
Dec 11 2024 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With the largest number of newly elected members at least since World War II, Republican South Carolina Senate leaders are thinking about tackling some issues like tax reform and liquor liability...
Dec 6 2024 // Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that lawmakers in the state Senate would move to ban all forms of consumable tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in Texas.Patrick, who presides over the Senate and largely controls the...
Nov 19 2024 // A U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee overseeing technology issues will hold a hearing Tuesday on Chinese hacking incidents, including a recent incident involving American telecom companies.The hearing to be chaired by...
Nov 8 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump will likely move to dismantle ESG-related regulations in the US when he takes office in January.That would mean blocking Securities and Exchange Commission rules for corporate and fund...
Oct 30 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has repeatedly defended his self-professed lack of knowledge about the U.S. farm bill in the campaign’s closing days, after first saying in a...
Jul 25 2024 // Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill designed to undo a ruling last month by the U.S. Supreme Court that curtailed the ability of federal agencies to issue regulations addressing issues including the...
Jul 11 2024 // MADISON, Wis . (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that protesters can’t march through a security zone at the Republican National Convention, handing a defeat to liberals who had pushed to have closer access to...
Jul 11 2024 // The New Jersey Democratic power broker charged with racketeering by the state attorney general pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he threatened people whose properties he sought to take over and orchestrated tax...