Tag: Washington D.C.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks with reporters about President Donald Trump's agenda following a Democratic policy lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schatz lines up whip support with no Senate competitors

David Sivak, Ramsey Touchberry · April 29, 2025 5:19 pm

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion lock themselves to the fence at the entance to the Massachusetts Statehouse during a protest against new fossil fuel infrastructure, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Boston.

Energy and Environment

Authors of National Climate Assessment dismissed by Trump administration

Ross O'Keefe · April 29, 2025 4:57 pm

House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington.

Aguilar rejects Trump impeachment efforts as method of resistance

Emily Hallas · April 29, 2025 4:43 pm

Trump just ‘trolling’ about 2028 run — dead serious about acquiring Canada and Greenland

Elaine Mallon · April 29, 2025 4:25 pm

In this June 12, 2007, file photo, a polygraph examiner applies electrodes on the fingers of a subject in Bogota, Colombia. Scientists say we all lie, and this year, politicians are bending the truth big time, with real consequences. By studying how and why we deceive, the experts say they can help us better understand the 2016 election season.

What are polygraphs and why is the Trump administration using them?

Emily Hallas · April 29, 2025 3:59 pm

Trump administration unresponsive in 39 federal watchdog investigations

Jack Birle · April 29, 2025 3:58 pm

Close up of Male lawyer or judge hand's striking the gavel on sounding block, working with Law books, report the case on table in modern office, Law and justice concept.

DC judge who freed suspect later involved in child murder gets a new 15-year term

Kaelan Deese · April 29, 2025 3:55 pm

DC AG sues five Maryland and Virginia drivers for ‘dangerous and illegal conduct’

Jack Birle · April 29, 2025 3:22 pm

Senate confirms Warren Stephens as US ambassador to United Kingdom

Samantha-Jo Roth · April 29, 2025 3:06 pm

President-elect Donald Trump, right, and Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) attend a caucus night rally, Feb. 8, 2024, in Las Vegas.

Doug Burgum lauds Trump’s energy policies shifting ‘180 degrees’ from Biden’s

Jenny Goldsberry · April 29, 2025 2:55 pm

Vance hints DOGE could continue past 2026 as its work will never be ‘truly done’

Asher Notheis · April 29, 2025 2:51 pm

According to congressional testimony by owners of trucking companies and the American Trucking Associations, beginning around 2000, revenue agents from New Jersey's department of taxation began waylaying trucks, demanding that the owners pay the states's $1,100 minimum corporate-franchise tax before letting the drivers proceed.

Taxing nonprofit associations would hurt everyone

Stephen Caldeira, Jennifer McNelly · April 29, 2025 2:30 pm