Government

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says President Joe Biden is “best positioned” to determine whether to waive executive privilege on documents sought by the House.

The subpoenas issued Tuesday include demands for documents and testimony from senior adviser Stephen Miller and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

A majority of lawmakers would be able to block orders, such as one requiring masks in schools, from continuing past 21 days.

Education officials say Pennsylvania's governor expects to let school districts modify or end the mask mandate for K-12 students in January.

Republicans are increasingly optimistic about flipping governor’s offices in key battleground states next year.

The House passed the bipartisan plan Friday night and Biden said Saturday he will hold a signing ceremony when lawmakers return from a week’s recess.

Raising his voice, Biden said that regardless of the circumstances, people who had their children taken under the Trump administration’s policy should be remunerated.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, said the court action halts Biden’s administration from “moving forward with his unlawful overreach.”

The House has approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates.

As part of an impending overall ban on single-use plastics in the Garden State, a restriction on straws took effect Thursday.

The Democrats' long struggle to balance demands from progressives and moderates once again dogged that pillar of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda.

Social media users began incorrectly claiming that real-time election results from news organizations showed proof of election fraud in the state’s most populous county.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says his mail-in ballot was dropped off by his wife before Tuesday’s election despite a state law requirement that voters deliver them in person.

Colin L. Powell, the widely praised soldier-diplomat who died of complications from COVID-19 last month, is being remembered at a funeral service Friday in Washington.