President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. succeeded in their efforts to defeat Senator Bill Cassidy in Louisiana’s Republican primary, a signal of the enduring strength of the president’s hold on his party despite an unpopular war and soaring gas prices.

Louisiana voters overwhelmingly rejected Gov. Jeff Landry’s (R) plan to allow parishes more flexibility to adjust their local business inventory taxes—one of five ballot measures defeated Saturday during the state’s primary election.

Immigration detention centers in California have become alarmingly overcrowded, unsanitary, and inhumane, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said Friday at a news conference regarding a new report on the facilities.

A US banking regulator blocked states from forcing national lenders to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts, as federal courts wrestle with a Supreme Court decision that left open questions around preemption of state law.

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is accusing some Republicans in her state of being too cautious about redrawing congressional maps.

From property taxes to software sales, states have floated ideas or taken action this week to change the way they raise revenue.

Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest oil producer before the Iran war, said it plans to increase its output capacity and is in talks with the group to raise production to 5 million barrels a day once the conflict is over.

Boeing Co. secured its long-awaited order from China during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the country, but details on the accord reached remained nebulous on aircraft type and timing.

The US Federal Aviation Administration is cutting its overall staffing target for air traffic controllers by about 2,000 people, saying it can make do with fewer personnel through technology and scheduling improvements over the coming years.

Kimmeridge Energy Management Co. is moving forward with plans to build a $13 billion liquefied natural gas export plant on the US Gulf Coast after securing backing from an Abu Dhabi sovereign fund.

The EEOC submitted a plan to the White House that cuts its longstanding requirements for large employers to report workplace demographics.

Dermatology services provider ADCS Clinics LLC and others settled a False Claims Act suit alleging they billed federal health-care programs for medically unnecessary exams and directed providers to use incorrect billing codes.

The US and Iran remained far apart on a deal to end weeks of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with President Donald Trump expressing renewed frustration with Tehran as a selloff in global bonds heightened concern about the conflict’s economic fallout.

China has agreed to buy at least $17 billion of agricultural products annually through 2028 and establish boards of trade and investment, the US said after the leaders of the two nations held a major summit in Beijing.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Sunday released draft language for a five-year surface transportation reauthorization addressing highways, transit systems, and other infrastructure nationwide.

Long Island Rail Road riders are bracing for hourslong Monday-morning commutes as a salary fight between the nation’s busiest commuter rail line and its employees forced a systemwide shutdown, the first in more than 30 years.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is escalating its response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, after the World Health Organization labeled the outbreak a public health emergency.

NextEra Energy Inc. is discussing a mostly stock deal for Dominion Energy Inc. that would value the company at about $76 per share, or around $66 billion, making it by far the largest power deal on record, according to people familiar with the matter.