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President rejects legislation to overturn a labor department rule Republicans have denounced as ‘woke capitalism’

Charlie Baker met with at least five U.S. senators, from both sides of the aisle, to begin discussions around national legislation for name, image and likeness.

"You look at it differently now. You’d never thought this would have happened in the smaller banks," Manchin said

As global warming threatens to put much of the ski industry out of business over the next several decades, resorts are beginning to embrace a role as climate activists

There are already five critical Senate races in which primary headaches are looming.

In a sign of a deepening rift among Democrats on energy issues, conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he will not move forward on President Joe Biden’s nominee to oversee oil and gas leasing at the Interior Department

The House has voted 227-198 to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Daniel Werfel to serve as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service by a vote of 54-to-42

The Senate approved a GOP-led joint resolution that would overrule the Washington, D.C., city council's recent legislation to rewrite the criminal code for the nation's capital.