Graham Platner heads into Maine’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday facing a fresh bout of controversy, turning what had looked like a coronation into a test of whether he’s a viable candidate for the party’s push to secure a majority in this year’s midterms.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee scuttled plans to mark up spending bills for the upcoming fiscal year this week, after Democrats balked at initial offers on a topline spending deal, the panel’s Republican chair said Monday.
Senator Alan Armstrong recently resigned as the executive chairman of Williams Companies to replace Markwayne Mullin in the Senate. Armstrong joined David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss the need for US infrastructure to meet the growing energy demand of AI data centers.
House lawmakers are considering bills meant to increase nuclear development in the US, an effort supported by both Republicans and Democrats.
An employer would have ten days to begin bargaining with a newly formed union, and 90 days to reach an agreement, under
Officials in the US and Canada are planning a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the coming days for a new C$6.4 billion ($4.6 billion) bridge linking Michigan to the province of Ontario, which President
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Federal workers still in their probationary period left their agencies at a higher rate than all full-time employees last year amid the Trump administration’s push to cut staff, according to a Government Accountability Office study.
Some key Republicans in Congress are throwing cold water on prospects for passing a third party-line budget bill, even as House GOP leaders insist they can move another mammoth legislative package this summer.
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Graham Platner heads into Maine’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday facing a fresh bout of controversy, turning what had looked like a coronation into a test of whether he’s a viable candidate for the party’s push to secure a majority in this year’s midterms.
President Donald Trump will be able to appoint another member of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, as Judge Kurt Engelhardt will take senior status.
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The Pentagon boosted to $60 billion the maximum value of a multi-vendor procurement vehicle for rapid sourcing of drones and other tactical equipment as the next iteration of the contract heads toward competitive bidding.
The House passed its Agriculture-FDA appropriations bill this week and advanced several more fiscal 2027 funding bills in committee, as Senate appropriators plan their first markups of the year.
The Department of Homeland Security would receive $69.5 billion in multiyear funding under S. 2, Republicans’ budget reconciliation package.
States are coalescing around Illinois’ approach to regulating AI safety, putting the onus for mitigating critical privacy risks squarely on developers of the most powerful AI systems.
At least part of the Ohio Supreme Court was skeptical Tuesday of an effort by state officials to overturn a legal test that evaluates the state’s power to restrict municipalities from enforcing certain ordinances.
Federally-chartered credit unions are immune from an Illinois law barring the collection of “swipe fees” on retail taxes and tips, and other state restrictions on their non-interest charges and fees, the regulator that oversees those institutions said.
A new Colorado law requiring frequent health and safety inspections at the state’s only ICE detention facility is preempted by federal law, the government contractor operating the facility argues.
As New York, Maryland, and Connecticut aim to ban retailers from using personal information about consumers to inflate prices, attorneys worry about who is being left out.
The Trump administration’s plan to change how the US Postal Service processes millions of mail ballots is creating new uncertainty for state and local election officials already mapping out November’s elections.
