News Briefs

How will farming fare during the Biden administration? That question was front and center during a confirmation hearing in early February by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry for Tom Vilsack, President Joseph […]

The world is waiting to see if — and how — the new White House administration will take on the tech industry. At the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 26, European Commission President […]

As Congress considers how to help advance President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s agenda for the next four years, climate change figures to play a major part, as he pledged moving the U.S. to a “Net […]

“We will — stop the steal,” Donald J. Trump declares in a video clip from a Jan. 6 speech in Washington D.C. that House impeachment managers used to open the former president’s Senate trial on […]

The United States is expected to play a major part in world climate discussions in Glasgow later this year, after President Joseph Biden rejoined an international climate change treaty that former President Donald Trump withdrew from […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — San Francisco was awash in corruption scandals in 2020. Harlan Kelly, head of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, appeared virtually in federal court on Dec. 8 to face fraud charges […]

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is bringing sedition and conspiracy charges against paramilitary and militia group leaders, members and participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Three people associated with the Oath Keepers, an […]

CHEBARKUL, Russia  — Failing to be resolved, a dispute between the residents of a dilapidated building in Chebarkul town in Russia and the local authorities has been dragged to court. While the residents demand the […]

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday said that he will not ban hydraulic fracturing in the country, but his environmental agenda still drew scrutiny from the oil and gas sector. Biden signed a slew […]