A federal judge in Washington dismissed the seditious conspiracy indictment against eight members of the Oath Keepers on August 4, ending the last criminal prosecution arising fro ...

In Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, the number of people who get SNAP benefits has decreased by about 12% since 2025. SNAP enrollment rates vary widely across the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area ...

Recent megafires have turned large expanses once covered in forest into fields of shrubs or grass. The blazes were simply too hot for conifers to regenerate, and Safford’s study found that efforts to ...

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

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A shrimp-boat captain with a high school education won a $50 million settlement against Formosa Plastics. The blueprint she built is being packaged for anyone else facing a polluter.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded with fury after Corpus Christi officials announced in March that this Gulf Coast region of more than 500,000 people could face unprecedented restrictions as its water ...

The funding deadline remains the more immediate pressure point. Fox News reported that without a new agreement by Jan. 30, federal agencies would again face a lapse in appropriations, and that the ...

PolitiFact says the administration has offered no evidence of drugs aboard the targeted vessels, while analysts and rights groups question the strikes' legality.

As the captured Venezuelan leader was flown to New York to face federal charges, Senate Democrats moved to check what they called an unauthorized march toward another open-ended war.

Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general cleared a major hurdle this week after two Republican senators who had raised concerns agreed to back him. Blanche gave written assurances that a $1.8 ...

Nine Senate Democrats wrote to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on August 3 asking whether the agency will prohibit the exchanges it registers from listing contracts that let people bet on ...