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President Biden on Tuesday lauded the $280 billion technology spending bill aimed at boosting domestic semiconductor manufacturing and spurring scientific research as proof that his administration can get legislation across the finish line.

Democrats are rushing to defend Attorney General Merrick Garland amid growing concerns by Republicans that the Justice Department is out to get conservatives.

Polls show that South Koreans increasingly favor both bringing U.S. tactical nuclear weapons back to the Korean Peninsula and developing an indigenous nuclear capability.

Not everyone was wowed by Kevin Costner's decision to endorse Rep. Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Republican primary.

Lebanon was once a noble experiment.

One of the greatest scams ever inflicted on the workplace in recent memory is COVID-19 hysteria. Test positive and ... boom! You've just received a get-out-of-work-for-free card.

Tech critics' hopes for an overhaul of antitrust laws this summer are fading fast after Sen. Amy Klobuchar said the vote will not happen before Congress departs this month.

If, as hoped, Republicans become the House majority in November, they should begin wresting the country from the left's grasp by selecting former President Donald Trump as speaker. It would be an unusual move, but the Constitution is silent on whether the speaker must be chosen from among elected House members, and no federal law requires it.

Las Vegas bookmakers are offering good odds Republicans will win both the House and Senate, but after those victories, what can they do?

There is a political movement that seeks to end all fossil fuel use.

Recent coinages such as "ne" and "xe" are just some of the gender-neutral pronouns being suggested by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for teachers and administrators ahead of the coming school year.

There are few policy proposals more backward than President Biden's and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's farce of "canceling" student loan debt.

The liberals who celebrated the upending of two-and-a-half millennia of precedent on what constitutes marriage are in a phony panic that the seven years of the Obergefell precedent might in turn be tossed out by a Supreme Court.

The Federal Aviation Administration is asking for public comments on the minimum size of passenger seats on airplanes.

Deputies in San Bernardino County, California, seized 19 bricks of cocaine last week, weighing almost 42 pounds and worth around $700,000 on the street.

Twitter issued a number of subpoenas to associates of Elon Musk to gather more information ahead of a lawsuit against the Tesla CEO for backing out of a deal to purchase the social media platform.

The Biden administration on Tuesday sued Idaho over its law banning abortions in most circumstances, arguing the state's move conflicts with federal law.

Senate Republicans have quizzed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the administration's sought-after Title IX update, saying the proposed changes would make "schools and sports unsafe and unfair for women and girls."

Mary Jo White, the investigator who oversaw the Dolphins probe, is also tasked with examining the allegations of sexual misconduct and financial improprieties against Snyder. The NFL first hired White to handle the Snyder probe in February, and then a month later, the league appointed her to investigate the Dolphins.

President Biden on Tuesday hailed the lowest uninsured rate in U.S. history, at 8%, and lobbied Congress to pass signature legislation that would shore up gains made through Obamacare.

A delayed order for a Batmobile allegedly prompted a customer to tap his friend -- a northern California sheriff -- to press charges against the automaker.

Your article on the Big Tech antitrust legislation pending before Congress fails to note the potential harm these bills would do to U.S. national security, particularly with respect to China ("Big Tech antitrust bill slowly gains steam in Congress, still likely short of needed votes," Web, July 29).

"'Respect for Marriage Act' is the latest example of the left's outright lying" (Web, July 31) overlooks the evolutionary process that all organisms followed, from asexual to sexual reproduction, to survive in the long run.

The recently completed term of the U.S. Supreme Court was perhaps the most extraordinary one in memory. The high court addressed numerous constitutional issues, including the scope of the Second Amendment, religious freedom, the reach of the administrative state and, perhaps most importantly, the question of which level of government should regulate abortion.

The FBI's alliance with the Democratics has reached new heights with the assertion by two senators that the bureau set them up for fake-news press stories about their groundbreaking Hunter Biden disclosures.