A potential strike among Long Island Rail Road workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority leaves federal and local leaders with few legal options to combat a potentially crippling work stoppage in the nation’s largest city.

The agent, Brian Visalli, has denied any intent to cheat the government. He contends his punishment is retaliation for his whistleblower complaints about mismanagement and inefficiency within the agency.

South Carolina Republican lawmakers pursuing an all-GOP congressional map face two major obstacles in a newly called special session on redistricting—a tight election calendar and lingering resistance from members of their own party.

The California Supreme Court has been short a justice for more than six months since Martin J. Jenkins’ retirement, making it one of the longest high court vacancies in the Golden State’s history.

Republican governors are elevating property tax cuts as an affordability fix before the midterm elections, proposing to unwind how local governments are funded and testing red states’ ability to ease rising housing costs.

New York Democrats are moving a nation-leading surveillance pricing ban meant to discourage companies from using consumer data to personalize prices.

The war in Iran has provided new impetus to the low-carbon transition as renewable energy is seen as less vulnerable to future price shocks, according to a group of corporate bosses and senior bankers.

House appropriators clashed this week over proposed cuts to science and economic development agencies, advancing their latest fiscal 2027 measure with a party-line vote.

President Donald Trump is calling for a suspension of the federal tax on gasoline as fuel prices soar because of the war with Iran.

Posillico Civil Inc. says the Department of Homeland Security unfairly funneled a majority of work under a $37 billion maximum value border infrastructure contract to two companies, and denied opportunities to other contractors.

The Trump administration is formally proposing to roll back wastewater limits for coal-fired power plants.

China agreed to buy 200 Boeing Co. planes, President Donald Trump said, in a multibillion-dollar deal that would mark the nation’s first purchase of US-made commercial jets in nearly a decade.

After Xi Jinping regaled Donald Trump with goose-stepping soldiers and flag-waving children, the Chinese leader’s warning that Taiwan could lead to “clashes” between the superpowers amounted to a thunderclap in the choreographed world of Communist Party politics.

A potential strike among Long Island Rail Road workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority leaves federal and local leaders with few legal options to combat a potentially crippling work stoppage in the nation’s largest city.

The war in Iran has provided new impetus to the low-carbon transition as renewable energy is seen as less vulnerable to future price shocks, according to a group of corporate bosses and senior bankers.

House appropriators clashed this week over proposed cuts to science and economic development agencies, advancing their latest fiscal 2027 measure with a party-line vote.

South Carolina Republican lawmakers pursuing an all-GOP congressional map face two major obstacles in a newly called special session on redistricting—a tight election calendar and lingering resistance from members of their own party.

The Senate’s uncharacteristically swift self-imposed ban on prediction market participation put unexpected pressure on the House to follow suit—but leaders across the Capitol are warning it might not be as easy.