Amy B Wang

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) is against an EPA proposal that would impose standards on fossil-fuel-burning power plants with the aim of drastically cutting power plant emissions by 2040.

The California Democrat had been absent since February after she was hospitalized with shingles, complicating things for Senate Democrats and their narrow majority.

Emails reviewed by The Washington Post shed more details on a controversial move by the Smithsonian to accept $650,000 from a Trump PAC for his presidential portrait, though individual donors were apparently willing to step up.

In November, the Biden administration issued a two-year suspension on tariffs on solar panels imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

The pause in talks is widely seen on Capitol Hill as a potential negotiating ploy from leaders aimed at assuring their bases that they are fighting aggressively for their sides’ priorities.

Talks were suspended with less than two weeks until a key deadline when the US government could run out funds to pay all of its bills.

In an interview with the Atlantic, the Dallas billionaire said the two do not discuss Supreme Court cases, which are "off limits."

Follow live updates as students compete in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling be beginning at 8 p.m.

The funding is the first piece of a broader $600 million Congress approved in December to address the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., where residents last summer were left without running water for weeks.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) admitted he was "blindsided" by the rebuke, but insisted the Republican caucus would emerge stronger.