Genomic sequencing has linked Ebola cases detected in Kenya and Nigeria to the same transmission chain and to viruses circulating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, while leaving open the ...

A US judge blocked the Trump administration from forcing California to set aside as many as 20,000 mail-in ballots from people who it claims are likely non-citizens, dealing the government another ...

Veteran federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, who oversaw cases against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Archegos Capital Management family office founder Bill Hwang and litigation over the 9/11 ...

President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola following a news report that her allies secretly recruited candidates to join the state’s US Senate race in order to ...

The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked a government watchdog agency to review the TrumpRx platform, the latest request from congressional Democrats who have been pressing ...

Senate Democrats with sterling environmental credentials are betraying those values by supporting a bipartisan permitting overhaul bill, a coalition of 140 climate, environmental justice, and ...

Possible US strikes against Iran after the midterm elections could complicate the fate of a must-pass defense authorization bill as congressional Democrats dig in against the measure to bring an end ...

Education Department employees have filed a federal workplace safety complaint alleging unclean drinking water, faulty elevators, and an “insect infestation” at the agency’s Chicago office.

The fight for control of the US Senate has expanded to an unexpected place: the deeply conservative farm state of Nebraska, thanks to the rising appeal of an independent candidate who says he wants ...

Amendment 87 — which last week survived a court challenge — would replace the state’s 4.4% flat income tax with a graduated system, with higher rates kicking in for households making more than ...

A federal judge in Washington imposed a fresh block against the Trump administration’s move to use taxpayer money for television ads praising the president, expanding a temporary ban on the media ...

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired four partners to its new Chicago office, beginning a growth plan intended to fill roughly 100,000 square feet of office space in the Windy City. The firm hired two ...