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A pharmacist prepares to give a COVID-19 booster vaccination.

Some health experts confused about administration’s booster goal

By Emily Kopp
Posted October 13, 2021 at 9:53am
Members of the California National Guard 115th Regional Support Group help pack boxes of fruit and other food at the Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley on March 24, 2020, in San Jose, Calif.

Military family groups press Biden to help low-income troops

By John M. Donnelly
Posted October 13, 2021 at 9:41am
Sen. Bob Casey, center, and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, left, attend the “Care Can’’t Wait” rally with the Service Employees International Union at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pa., on June 2.

Concerns grow over home health care as Democrats debate funding

By Lauren Clason
Posted October 13, 2021 at 6:29am
Congress passed a short-term extension of highway and transit projects after a long-term bill got caught up in a standoff over a major budget and policy bill.

Short-term highway bill extension brings anxiety to contractors

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 13, 2021 at 6:00am
Officers at the port of entry between the U.S. and Mexico in 2019.

White House will open US land borders to vaccinated travelers

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted October 12, 2021 at 11:03pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses the debt ceiling and budget legislation during a news conference Tuesday.

Pelosi: Budget decisions needed ‘in the next few days’ to hit deadline

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted October 12, 2021 at 6:21pm
Immigration activists march in front of the Capitol in May.

DHS to end work site immigration raids, focus on employers

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 12, 2021 at 1:39pm
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said the inclusion of rail and transit funding in the infrastructure bill will make it harder to provide "robust" funding in the reconciliation bill.

Transit, rail funding seen as vulnerable to reconciliation cuts

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 12, 2021 at 1:15pm
Afghan refugees arrive at Dulles International Airport on August 27, 2021 after leaving Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban.

Emergency funds could kick-start slow Afghan resettlement

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted October 12, 2021 at 12:28pm
Rep. Ralph Norman stands among piles of unused border fence while speaking with local ranchers and farmers during an April 2021 tour of the border wall on the Johnson Ranch near Columbus, N.M.

Supreme Court ends legal clash over border wall spending

By Todd Ruger
Posted October 12, 2021 at 12:20pm
If confirmed, Saule Omarova would arrive at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency amid a larger crackdown on cryptocurrencies and fintech by the Biden administration.

Critics, supporters see Biden’s OCC nominee reining in fintech

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted October 12, 2021 at 7:00am
Antitrust attorney Jonathan Kanter testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. If confirmed, he would be the latest Big Tech critic in the Biden administration.

Biden’s nominees show embrace of progressive views of Big Tech

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted October 12, 2021 at 6:00am
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, now chair of the White House’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, appears via video at a December 2020 news conference with President-elect Joe Biden and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris.

What keeps the White House COVID-19 task force chair up at night?

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted October 11, 2021 at 9:00am
Two hikers hike in Natural Bridges National Monument, which borders the Bears Ears National Monument on June 15, 2019, outside Blanding, Utah.

Biden restores monument borders, drawing Utah Republicans’ ire

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted October 8, 2021 at 9:15am
“Every time we set a timeframe and all that, we screw ourselves,” Hawaii Sen. Mazie K. Hirono says.

Slow progress on budget package with deadline weeks away

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted October 8, 2021 at 5:00am
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito was among 11 Republican senators who voted for cloture on the debt limit measure.

Short-term debt limit increase passes Senate, heads to House

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted October 7, 2021 at 5:28pm, Updated at 8:40pm
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., left, said the administration's Haiti policy “is in desperate need of fresh faces and perspectives.”

Former Haitian envoy says deportations ‘not the answer’

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 7, 2021 at 8:06pm
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the days of fossil fuel companies getting whatever handouts they seek are over.

Climate hawks reject compromise in reconciliation

By Joseph Morton
Posted October 7, 2021 at 4:27pm
A Defense Department vaccine site at Fort Knox, Ky., last month.

Pentagon civilian vaccine mandate is a massive logistical lift

By Mark Satter
Posted October 7, 2021 at 4:06pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Sept. 28.

Bipartisan debt limit patch would raise borrowing cap by $480B

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted October 7, 2021 at 11:46am, Updated at 3:26pm
Rep. Greg Steube's bill would prohibit bonuses for top executives for two years around a bankruptcy filing.

Executives’ pre-bankruptcy bonuses stir outrage, little action in Congress

By Ellen Meyers
Posted October 7, 2021 at 7:00am
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III’s position on Democrats’ budget reconciliation package have made him a center of attention.

With GOP sidelined, Manchin steps up to defend fossil fuels

By Benjamin J. Hulac and Joseph Morton
Posted October 7, 2021 at 6:15am
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked from left by Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., arrive at the podium for their press conference in the Capitol on Oct. 5.

Democrats, Republicans agree to short-term debt limit increase

By Jennifer Shutt, David Lerman and Niels Lesniewski
Posted October 6, 2021 at 1:53pm, Updated October 7, 2021 at 12:12am
Members of Congress and congressional staff expressed optimism that a Department of Education overhaul of a loan forgiveness program will make it easier for public sector employees to benefit.

Student loan forgiveness changes could spell relief for more public sector workers

By Chris Cioffi
Posted October 6, 2021 at 6:09pm
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Sept. 28.

Pentagon says debt ceiling breach could halt payments to survivors

By Mark Satter
Posted October 6, 2021 at 1:01pm, Updated at 5:22pm
Brenda Mallory, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, in her office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.

White House moves to restore environment reviews eased by Trump

By Joseph Morton
Posted October 6, 2021 at 5:04pm
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., holds a news conference Wednesday in the Hart Senate Office Building .

Manchin’s opioids tax plan faces pushback from lobbying groups

By Sandhya Raman
Posted October 6, 2021 at 2:58pm
Chaos at the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review comes amid a critical month for policymakers.

FDA’s internal turmoil could impact boosters, shots for kids

By Emily Kopp
Posted October 6, 2021 at 6:29am
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer arrives for a news conference after the Senate Democratic Policy luncheon in the Capitol on Tuesday, September 21, 2021.

Senate Democrats weigh ‘nuking’ filibuster for debt limit bill

By Jennifer Shutt and Niels Lesniewski
Posted October 5, 2021 at 4:29pm, Updated at 8:30pm
A Taliban fighter walks past the Eid Gah mosque where a blast struck a day before, in Kabul on Monday. U.S. experts warn there is infighting within the group.

Taliban infighting complicates Afghanistan policy risks

By Rachel Oswald
Posted October 5, 2021 at 6:15pm