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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Joe Biden participate in a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on Monday.

Senators say German chancellor backs Biden on Russia, Nord Stream 2

By Rachel Oswald
Posted February 8, 2022 at 5:56pm
Steelworkers attend to rolled steel at Lehigh Heavy Forge in Pennsylvania.

Biden administration strikes deal with Japan on steel tariffs

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted February 8, 2022 at 10:00am
President Joe Biden, seen here at a 2021 United Nations climate change conference, made the "30 by 30" goal a major part of his environmental agenda.

Biden’s rebranded conservation plan has critics on all sides

By Joseph Morton
Posted February 7, 2022 at 2:18pm
Robert Califf testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the nomination on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021.

Wyden probes FDA nominee’s views on accelerated drug approvals

By Ariel Cohen
Posted February 7, 2022 at 5:00am
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, left, speaks with Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Republicans stress process for Supreme Court confirmation will be one of ‘respect’

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 3, 2022 at 3:06pm
Troops from Fort Bragg, N.C., are pictured before heading to the Middle East for a 2020 deployment. The Pentagon says it will send a total of 2,000 troops currently stationed at Fort Bragg to Poland and Germany.

Biden deploys troops to Eastern Europe

By Mark Satter
Posted February 2, 2022 at 11:25am, Updated at 3:20pm
President Joe Biden said throughout his 2020 campaign that he would reignite the cancer moonshot program.

Biden reignites ‘cancer moonshot’ effort

By Ariel Cohen
Posted February 2, 2022 at 5:00am
Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks with Shalanda D. Young, nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, before her confirmation hearing in the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday.

OMB nominee says new Biden budget coming in March

By David Lerman
Posted February 1, 2022 at 6:13pm
President Joe Biden just welcomed a long-awaited cat to the White House. He should lean into cat parenthood, Koltun writes. Above, Willow the cat surveys its new Washington home last week.

Joe Biden can reset his presidency with Willow the cat

By Ben Koltun
Posted January 31, 2022 at 1:09pm
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., center, co-authored a letter to the administration questioning why the country is still facing testing shortages and other pandemic issues and blaming a "fundamental lack of strategy and a failure to anticipate future testing needs by the administration.”

Unspent funds color debate over additional pandemic relief

By David Lerman
Posted January 28, 2022 at 9:00am
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., here speaking to reporters last year, said a Supreme Court nominee would get a speedy confirmation process.

Democrats hold advantages in Supreme Court confirmation

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 26, 2022 at 4:39pm
Philonise Floyd, center, Bridgett Floyd, left, the brother and sister of the late George Floyd, walk to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial during a march on Aug. 28, 2020.

Many still waiting for Biden’s promised racial equity reckoning

By Michael Macagnone
Posted January 26, 2022 at 12:22pm
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is pushing a bill to slap new sanctions on Russia if it invades Ukraine.

As Congress contemplates, White House issues sanctions threat to Russia

By Rachel Oswald
Posted January 26, 2022 at 6:30am
If Joe Biden has achieved anything, say analysts watching his presidency, it’s passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law.

After a true infrastructure year, focus turns to implementation

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 25, 2022 at 2:00pm
Climate change activists hold a demonstration at the Supreme Court in 2019 to call on government policymakers to cut carbon emissions.

Biden didn’t get all he wanted on climate, but it’s a new year

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted January 25, 2022 at 1:15pm
President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on January 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. With his approval rating hovering around 42-percent, Biden is approaching the end of his first year in the Oval Office with inflation rising, COVID-19 surging and his legislative agenda stalled on Capitol Hill.

Trump pounces and Scranton Joe shows signs of fight in 2024 preview

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 24, 2022 at 6:00am
Germaine T. Leftwich, 67, receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot from Dr. Tiffany Taliaferro at the Safeway on Capitol Hill in October.

Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 21, 2022 at 2:16pm
President Joe Biden met with members of his Infrastructure Implementation Task Force on Thursday.

Biden getting air cover as he seeks more time away from DC to sell first-year achievements

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted January 20, 2022 at 4:27pm
Beneath a portrait of President George Washington, President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday.

Biden ties midterm election legitimacy to doomed voting rights bill

By Niels Lesniewski and Kate Ackley
Posted January 19, 2022 at 6:57pm, Updated at 10:59pm
Sen. Joe Manchin talks to reporters on Jan. 13, 2022. The West Virginia Democrat told reporters Wednesday that party leaders haven’t yet approached him on President Joe Biden’s “break it up” strategy.

Acknowledging hurdles, Biden ready to split up budget package

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted January 19, 2022 at 7:26pm
Former President Donald Trump addresses the crowd Saturday in Florence, Ariz., at his first rally of 2022.

‘Back of the line’: Trump debuts new material, ramping up race-based claims

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 19, 2022 at 5:45am
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said the nominees would make the Fed board more representative of those it serves.

Biden’s three new nominees aim to add diversity to Fed board

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 14, 2022 at 10:06am
A U.S. Army soldier immunizes a patient last year in Florida. The soldiers were deployed to assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the state-run, federally supported COVID-19 community vaccination center.

Biden directs surge teams to states hit hardest by omicron

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 13, 2022 at 12:16pm
Former President Donald Trump, here in Iowa in October, heads to Florence, Ariz., on Saturday for his first rally of the year.

‘Kingmaker’ Trump heads to rural Arizona, where GOP candidates are eager for his backing

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 13, 2022 at 5:30am
A sign reminding riders to wear a face mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 appears on a bus outside the Capitol on Monday.

White House emphasizes testing over mask update

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 12, 2022 at 3:00pm
Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, pictured here last July, called the lease sale a “once-in-a-generation opportunity.”

Administration announces record offshore wind sale

By Joseph Morton
Posted January 12, 2022 at 2:21pm
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pause to speak to reporters as they leave the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Biden, Harris push voting rights in Atlanta as Senate preps for rules fight

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted January 11, 2022 at 10:27am, Updated at 6:20pm
A woman picks up COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits at the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library in Washington in December.

Hoyer: White House to ask for more pandemic relief funds

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted January 11, 2022 at 2:31pm
Grubb's Pharmacy on Capitol Hill in Washington is pictured on April 12, 2021.

Biden issues guidance for health plans to cover COVID-19 tests

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted January 10, 2022 at 5:51pm
Nicholas Burns, U.S. ambassador to China, was among a list of diplomatic nominees recently confirmed by the Senate.

Senators pry open spigot for Biden’s diplomatic nominees

By Rachel Oswald
Posted January 10, 2022 at 6:30am