U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Aspinwall, and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., plan to press the next Congress to invest up to $200 billion in passenger and freight rail overhauls across the country over the next five years, including tens of billions of dollars in safety improvements that Mr. Deluzio says are critical for Western Pennsylvania.

The pair is...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two San Fernando Valley men, who were sentenced to death over a decade ago for killing five people, had their sentences commuted to life in prison on Monday by President Joe Biden.

In 2007, Iouri Mikhel and Jurijus Kadamovas were sentenced to death after they were convicted of murdering five people in a kidnapping-for-ransom ...Read more

Former national security adviser John Bolton warned Tuesday that there is a “much higher chance” of a major international crisis in the upcoming second administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

The prominent foreign policy hawk said Trump’s lack of focus and inability to stick to policy decisions could trigger an overseas disaster. ...Read more

Former President Bill Clinton is home for the holidays following a brief hospital stay in the nation’s capital.

The 42nd president’s Deputy Chief of Staff Angel Ureña said Monday that the 78-year-old Democrat was under observation at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital where he was running a fever and undergoing testing. Ureña posted ...Read more

Nippon Steel Corp.’s proposed $12.3 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel Corp. moved a step closer to being blocked after a U.S. national security panel deadlocked on its review and left the final decision with President Joe Biden, who has repeatedly indicated his opposition to the deal.

The case was referred by the Committee on Foreign ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for commuting the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners in an act of holiday clemency.

Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted in the slayings of police and military ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley praised President Joe Biden’s move to take killers off death row but added he hasn’t gone far enough.

In a statement that has gone viral, Pressley said Biden has made a “groundbreaking act” that was long overdue.

“The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for commuting the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners in an act of holiday clemency.

Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted in the slayings of police and military ...Read more

South Korea’s main opposition party is seeking to impeach Acting President Han Duck-soo in a potentially risky move to put maximum pressure on the ruling party.

The Democratic Party intends to wait till Thursday to submit an impeachment motion, according to Yonhap News, delaying its earlier plan to submit on Tuesday. Officials were ...Read more

Numerous East Coast states are counting on offshore wind projects to power tens of millions of homes and to help them transition to cleaner energy.

But putting wind turbines at sea requires the cooperation of a powerful landlord: the federal government. Soon, that government will be led by President-elect Donald Trump, who has frequently ...Read more

Bill Clinton is undergoing testing at Georgetown University Hospital where he was hospitalized Monday for a fever, according to the 42nd president’s deputy chief of staff.

“President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” longtime Clinton associate Angel...Read more

Two Florida men sentenced to death after gunning down a family of four in 2006 are among 37 people on federal death row to have their sentences commuted by President Joe Biden.

Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez Jr. were found guilty in 2009 for the execution-style killings of 28-year-old Jose Luis Escobedo, his 25-year-old wife Yessica, and ...Read more

South Korea’s main opposition party said it will start impeachment proceedings against Prime Minister and Acting President Han Duck-soo.

Park Chan-dae, the floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, made the comments at a meeting that was broadcast live on Tuesday. The opposition party said Han has indicated at the cabinet meeting that ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he wants to change the name of the highest mountain in North America from Denali back to Mount McKinley.

Alaska's two Republican U.S. senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, immediately pushed back, saying they support the Koyukon Athabascan place name for the mountain. Denali was long favored by ...Read more

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino rallied support from former presidents in defense of the country’s canal following threats from Donald Trump to reimpose U.S. control over the waterway.

Mulino met with three Panamanian leaders on Monday, who all signed a statement asserting the country’s independence and autonomy over the canal.

“As ...Read more

Last week, the Biden administration approved its overarching plan for how to run California’s systems of pumps, canals and reservoirs that serves millions of people and much of the state’s farmland.

The Bureau of Reclamation’s decision Friday ended a four-year effort to overturn the Trump administration’s previous 2019 rules for the ...Read more

Former Maryland governor and commissioner of the Social Security Administration Martin O’Malley has been called to testify before the House Oversight Committee next month about an agreement he signed to allow some Social Security employees to work remotely through 2029.

O’Malley signed the agreement in late November, two days before leaving...Read more

President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, including three North Carolina inmates sentenced for violent killings.

Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette, Richard Allen Jackson and Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umaña will all remain in prison for life without the possibility of parole after Biden commuted the sentences of ...Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives will decide Jan. 3 whether to reelect Speaker Mike Johnson to the top GOP job after he faced a contentious vote to avert a government shutdown at the last-minute last week, leaving some Republicans skeptical of his prospects heading into the vote.

All of Minnesota’s four Republican members of Congress say ...Read more

A New England man who was on death row after he “senselessly killed” and was indicted for sending bomb threats to the home of former President George H. W. Bush is on President Biden’s federal death row commutation list.

While 53-year-old Maine man Charles Hall is on the commutation list, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was left ...Read more