Government

Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. territory feel like they’re living in the aftermath of a major storm.

Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year's coronavirus relief package.

OSHA, the small, chronically understaffed federal agency in charge of workplace safety, now faces a big challenge: enforcing a federal vaccine rule covering 80 million workers

What qualifies as fighting COVID-19 or promoting economic recovery is often left up to the people spending the money.

A. U.S. Distcitct judge will consider whether to temporarily halt the law that bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks.

Biden and Dems are reaching for a giant legislative accomplishment — promising a vast rewrite of the nation’s tax and spending plans — with a so-slim majority in Congress.

With only hours to spare, President Joe Biden has signed legislation that would avoid a partial federal shutdown and keep the government funded through Dec. 3.

The announcement comes on the heels of the city recording its 400th homicide over the weekend.

The deadline for the General Assembly to approve new maps is Nov. 8, one year before the 2022 elections.

Republicans opposed the measure to suspend the federal borrowing limit, leaving the national government teetering on the brink of a partial shutdown.

"Like I did in my first and second COVID-19 vaccination shot, I'm about to get my booster shot and do it publicly," President Biden said.

The Senate has a test vote set Monday to keep the government funded and avert a federal debt default before Thursday's fiscal year-end deadline.

Track regulators, racing fans and horse lovers mostly agree that performance enhancing drugs, "doping", are doing major damage to the animals behind the scenes across PA.

The New Jersey Courts are trying to alert people who benefitted from automatic expungement when the state’s new decriminalization law took effect in July.

In all, the agency estimates it owes $19.4 million to tens of thousands of people who were erroneously charged an inflated interest rate between 2006 and 2016.