Vice President Kamala Harris said she was busy lobbying lawmakers on the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday to rescue Democrats' bills on voting rights, ahead of planned Senate action this week. Published January 17, 2022
Minnesota's health department, under threat of a lawsuit, has removed race as a preferential factor in deciding which COVID-19 patients will receive monoclonal antibody treatments. Published January 17, 2022
The health departments of New York state, Minnesota and Utah face potential lawsuits alleging they discriminate against White people by giving priority to select minorities for scarce COVID-19 treatments, part of a growing backlash nationwide against the race-based policy. Published January 14, 2022
Consumer prices jumped 7% in December from a year earlier, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, saddling households with the highest inflation rate for necessities since 1982 and putting President Biden and Democrats on the defensive at the start of the midterm election year. Published January 12, 2022
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell on Tuesday disputed President Biden's claim that supply-chain problems have eased, telling Congress that persistent bottlenecks are responsible for record-high inflation that could prompt the central bank to raise interest rates more than planned. Published January 11, 2022
President Biden on Tuesday dismissed plans by voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams to not attend his major speech on Democrats' legislation to overhaul the nation's election laws. Published January 11, 2022
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers Tuesday that the central bank is "strongly committed" to keeping prices stable, as he seeks confirmation for a second four-year term. Published January 11, 2022
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will tell lawmakers Tuesday that the central bank is "strongly committed" to keeping prices stable, as he seeks confirmation for a second four-year term. Published January 11, 2022
Georgian Stacey Abrams is among the voting-rights activists who are skipping President Biden's event in Atlanta on Tuesday to push for Democratic voting legislation. Published January 11, 2022
Several Democratic-run states and cities are giving preference to non-White patients for receiving potentially lifesaving treatments for COVID-19, a race-based scheme that legal scholars say is unconstitutional. Published January 9, 2022
Partisan divisions have hardened in the year since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, with Republicans less interested in prosecuting the rioters and Democrats firm in blaming former President Donald Trump for the violence, according to polls. Published January 5, 2022
A House Democrat from Pennsylvania is intensifying his campaign for an open Senate seat with a pledge to end the filibuster if he's elected. Published January 4, 2022
The Republican primary for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania is about to be shaken up for the third time with the likely entry of David McCormick, a former Bush administration official and hedge-fund manager who is promising "a battle for the heart and soul of America." Published January 3, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday significantly revised downward its estimate of the percentage of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. caused by the omicron variant, raising questions about the agency's understanding of the new strain. Published December 28, 2021
The supply chain crisis and the pandemic have reinforced an economic maxim that executives at manufacturer Acme Alliance in Northbrook, Illinois, have emphasized for two decades: Keep your operations and jobs near your customers. Published December 24, 2021
President Biden is stocking the federal judiciary with liberal judges at a faster pace than former President Trump filled the bench with conservatives, as he tries to appease a progressive base unhappy that he abandoned a plan to pack the Supreme Court. Published December 24, 2021
A key measure of inflation showed consumer prices rising the fastest in four decades, the government reported Thursday, a day after the White House boasted that President Biden "saved Christmas" by helping to speed up delivery of gifts that are costing Americans more. Published December 23, 2021
A Democratic lawmaker from Pennsylvania was carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia on Wednesday, her office said. Published December 22, 2021
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the front-runner in the state's Democratic Senate primary, is being targeted by a rival over an incident in 2013 in which he pulled a shotgun on a Black jogger whom he suspected of a crime. Published December 22, 2021
A coalition of nine conservative groups on Tuesday asked two Biden-appointed members of the National Labor Relations Board to recuse themselves from a major case involving their former employer, the powerful Service Employees International Union. Published December 21, 2021
