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Independent commissions were expected to take partisan favoritism out of the redistricting process, but that hasn’t always been the case so far this year.

State redistricting commissions get mixed reviews

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 2, 2021 at 5:30am
Protesters rally outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 1 as justices hear two challenges to a Texas’ abortion law.

Texas to implement second major abortion law

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 1, 2021 at 5:17pm
Abortion rights activists hold “up letters in front of the Supreme Court as oral arguments are held Wednesday in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Advocates energized by Supreme Court abortion case

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 1, 2021 at 4:57pm
Kansas Republican Roger Marshall is leading a Senate push to block President Joe Biden's vaccine rule.

House won’t take up stopgap funds Wednesday as disputes linger

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted December 1, 2021 at 2:28pm, Updated at 4:34pm
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arrives earlier this year to testify before a House hearing. He spoke Wednesday about the new COVID-19 variant.

First US case of omicron variant detected

By Emily Kopp
Posted December 1, 2021 at 3:07pm
Protesters rally outside as the Supreme Court hears two challenges to a Texas abortion law on Nov. 1.

Abortion case tests Supreme Court’s rightward shift after Trump

By Todd Ruger and Sandhya Raman
Posted November 29, 2021 at 12:33pm, Updated December 1, 2021 at 2:09pm
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are hoping to attach their draft bill, which would establish a national database aimed at streamlining the U.S. supply chain, to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Bill would create database to address supply chain crisis

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 1, 2021 at 11:46am
Members of the immigrant advocacy organization CASA hold signs outside the Capitol in September.

Democrats pitch parliamentarian on immigration relief

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 1, 2021 at 10:50am
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., says changes to House version are inevitable.

Senate ‘SALT’ consensus elusive as budget bill vote approaches

By Laura Weiss and Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 1, 2021 at 7:17am
A man with Type 1 diabetes tests his blood glucose level before injecting insulin. Obesity is a risk factor for diabetes and several other chronic conditions, including heart disease and stroke.

Advocacy blitz targets Medicare coverage of obesity treatment

By Lauren Clason
Posted December 1, 2021 at 6:29am
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans blocked progress on the defense bill to secure more amendment votes.

Leaders point fingers as defense bill remains stalled in the Senate

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted November 30, 2021 at 4:12pm
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, rear, who testified with Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen in front of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, said it may be time to stop using the word "transitory" to describe inflation.

Fed’s Powell sees growing risk of ‘persistent’ higher inflation

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted November 30, 2021 at 3:22pm
New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand has led the effort in the Senate to combat sexual assault in the military.

Lawmakers press for sweeping military justice changes

By John M. Donnelly
Posted November 30, 2021 at 1:01pm
A woman uses a diabetes management app to view her blood glucose levels. The public health crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic has often been a boon to so-called digital health companies, even as it has exacerbated the problems that companies seek to solve.

Startups use tech, ‘gamification’ for public health problems

By Justin Papp
Posted November 30, 2021 at 7:00am
A physicist shows a quantum processor on a prototype of a quantum computer at a technology laboratory in Lower Saxony, Germany, in August.

Quantum computing would get boost in Senate defense bill

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted November 30, 2021 at 6:30am
House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., left, speaks with ranking member Kay Granger, R-Texas, before a full committee markup on June 29, 2021.

New stopgap funding bill likely to extend into early 2022

By Paul M. Krawzak and Jennifer Shutt
Posted November 29, 2021 at 4:51pm
"This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic," President Joe Biden said Monday.

Biden tells the nation not to panic over new COVID-19 variant

By Ariel Cohen
Posted November 29, 2021 at 1:44pm
Young testifies at her confirmation hearing on March 2, 2021 to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Biden makes it official: Young gets OMB director nod

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted November 24, 2021 at 9:36am, Updated at 10:15am
The Biden administration says it hopes to lower pump prices by selling 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Petroleum reserve sale seen having small impact on gas prices

By Benjamin J. Hulac and Joseph Morton
Posted November 23, 2021 at 1:48pm, Updated at 4:57pm
Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan touted the "Build Back Better" bill after touring a medical campus in Cleveland.

Next stop for Biden’s agenda: The campaign trail

By Bridget Bowman
Posted November 23, 2021 at 7:11am
The J. Edgar Hoover Building of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.

FBI wants to be in the loop as Congress mulls cyber reporting law

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted November 23, 2021 at 6:35am
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a September hearing before the Senate Banking Committee.

Biden to stay with Powell as Fed chairman

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted November 22, 2021 at 10:09am
An immigration activist demonstrates in front of the Supreme Court in May. Progressive Democrats had pushed for more permanent protections for undocumented immigrants in the reconciliation bill.

Temporary immigration protections for millions pass the House

By Suzanne Monyak and Caroline Coudriet
Posted November 19, 2021 at 2:10pm
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fist-bumps a person wearing a Build Back Better Bill” costume on the House steps as she arrives for votes on the legislation Friday morning.

House passes budget package after cost concerns abate

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted November 19, 2021 at 9:47am
Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sit on a table in Washington.

FDA OKs Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 booster shots for all adults

By Ariel Cohen
Posted November 19, 2021 at 9:11am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi conducts her weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday.

House kicks budget reconciliation bill vote to Friday as GOP leader keeps talking

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted November 18, 2021 at 7:25pm, Updated November 19, 2021 at 1:07am
Sen. Jack Reed has narrowed the list of amendments to his defense policy bill that will get Senate votes.

Defense bill stalled in Senate over amendment dispute

By Mark Satter
Posted November 18, 2021 at 11:13pm
The turkey accounted for almost half the cost of the 2021 Thanksgiving meal in the American Farm Bureau's annual survey.

Turkey gobbles up Thanksgiving dollar; Vilsack’s meal focuses on the basics

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted November 18, 2021 at 1:59pm
The Alisal fire burns along Refugio Road near Goleta, Calif., on Oct. 13. Average insured losses in the past 10 years are more than twice as high as they were in the previous decade.

Federal Insurance Office urged to push climate risk disclosure

By Ellen Meyers and Justin Papp
Posted November 18, 2021 at 7:30am
White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci and other Biden administration health officials said COVID-19 booster shots are needed even for young and healthy adults.

Administration defends COVID-19 boosters for all, before likely OK

By Ariel Cohen
Posted November 17, 2021 at 3:59pm