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A Supreme Court case illustrates the potential costs of making it easier to sue social media platforms over user-generated content.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to intervene to avert a potentially crippling freight rail strike before Christmas, even if it means handing a defeat to Democratic allies in the labor movement

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Monday that he wants Congress to step in to avert a major railroad strike.

As freight railroads face a potential strike, the president asks Congress to adopt a previously negotiated deal between labor and management.

WASHINGTON — Privacy advocates and industry groups are urging lawmakers to get a bipartisan federal data privacy bill passed soon: either early in the new Congress or even in the remaining weeks of the lame duck session.

Supporters of a data privacy bill hope Congress will pass legislation early in the next Congress or even in the lame-duck session.

Membership of key defense committees will change with Tuesday's midterm election, adding to the substantial turnover from retirements.

One of the most underappreciated high-stakes legislative fights, featuring some strange political bedfellows, is brewing after the elections.

The state joined states such as New York, California and Missouri in nabbing more than $50 million in health-related earmarks in fiscal 2022.

WASHINGTON — Two dozen mostly rural states are set to receive a greater share of federal research money from the recently enacted science and technology funding law as lawmakers, experts and researchers push to support talented scientists outside of major research hubs such as those in California, Massachusetts and New…

WASHINGTON — In the next Congress, Susan Collins of Maine is expected to be the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s powerful Defense panel, sources say.