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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday cleared a resolution that would disapprove of a Labor Department rule allowing retirement plans to consider climate factors in their investment decisions, setting the stage for the first veto of President Joe Biden’s presidency.

MIAMI — A planned visit this week by Cuban Border Guard officials to U.S. Coast Guard headquarters in Washington has been canceled after complaints from Republican members of Congress.

A Bellingham, Washington-based real estate brokerage faces accusations that it knew two of its male agents drugged and sexually assaulted female co-workers during work events.

​WASHINGTON — The House passed a Republican-drafted messaging bill Wednesday designed to express concern about Biden administration policies that backers said have spurred inflation, with support from both sides of the aisle.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that a series of mysterious health incidents affecting U.S. personnel around the world since 2016 were unlikely to have been caused by a foreign adversary or by a directed energy weapon, after conducting what one intelligence official described as a “historic” investigation.

WASHINGTON — Senators focused on deaths from fentanyl and violent crime as Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time in more than a year.

Big name sports teams from coast to coast are wanting out of their conferences, but have no place to turn to for a new home

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell returned from an overseas trip to Europe and the Middle East steeled in his conviction to plow more U.S. investment into defending Ukraine, at a moment when the vocal populist wing of the Republican Party is calling an open-ended commitment unacceptable.

WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service awarded a competitive contract Tuesday to Ford Motor Co. for 9,250 battery-electric vehicles.

SEATTLE — Blue and orange flames flicker and whir within five massive natural gas-fired boilers, visible only through hatches where coal used to be shoveled.

Some of Washington’s most powerful lobbyists are providing their services to Ukraine for free, but they also have financial incentives for aiding the country