State lawmakers from both parties have increasingly targeted sales tax exemptions for data centers as the sprawling facilities have ruffled local residents, Daniel Moore reports.

Washington has adopted its first income tax after Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed into law Monday a bill that applies a 9.9% levy on the roughly 30,000 taxpayers in the state who make more than $1 million a year.

A federal court on Sunday denied a company’s bid to excuse it from helping clean up one of the nation’s most high-profile polluted waterways.

No primary in the country is dividing the Democratic Party more bitterly than the battle for the nomination to face Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine. That’s both because the choice is so stark and the stakes are so high.

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s argument that the state is immune from Enbridge Energy‘s lawsuit linked to the state’s effort to shut down the aging Line 5 oil and gas pipeline.

It’s been a decade since farmers began to learn that contamination from PFAS unknowingly spread across their property could devastate their lives and livelihoods, but Maine is showing it’s possible to keep farms going despite the problems caused by the “forever chemicals.”

Carlyle Group Inc. plans to launch a fund focused on the defense sector amid growing demand by governments to upgrade their military forces, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

A Virginia federal district court dismissed a suit alleging the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority unlawfully ignored a requirement to include project labor agreements in large construction projects at the area’s two major airports.

Engineers and energy tech companies sued the Energy Department Monday for allegedly discriminating against blue states when cutting federal grant funding.

Democratic lawmakers are starting an investigation into the Trump administration’s plan to spend billions of dollars buying and retrofitting warehouses as immigrant detention centers, ramping up scrutiny of a key piece of the White House’s push for mass deportations.

Israel and US strikes have wiped out senior Iranian leaders and hit key targets across the country. But after a month of fighting, it is arguably Iran that has secured the most significant strategic victory — a tightening grip over traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Palantir leads its competitors in winning Defense Department contracts under a new method for procuring innovative commercial technology.

The Trump administration’s plan to increase protein consumption in schools across the US is drawing scrutiny from members of the “Make America Healthy Again” coalition, who are warning against making children eat more meat.

Two House lawmakers are seeking to build a coalition of industry leaders and lawmakers around their legislative approach to regulating the taxation of digital assets.

Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology will take away their jobs and hurt education, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

Airport wait times in Houston and Atlanta have eased after Transportation Security Administration officers received most of their missed pay.

A Washington federal judge appeared skeptical of a revised Pentagon policy restricting press access, at one point suggesting the department’s planned relocation of media offices to a separate building was Kafkaesque.

Senate Republicans plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security for three years using a party-line budget process in an effort to sidestep Democratic opposition as the shutdown drags on, a key GOP senator said Monday.