President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. will withdraw from the 2015 Iran denuclearization agreement, but most Americans have only a hazy understanding of what the deal entails and many are skeptical of the president’s handling of the issue, according to a Pew Research Center study.
Read moreThe United States is on track to admit the lowest number of refugees into the country since it started its resettlement program three decades ago, a byproduct of stricter admission policies adopted by the Trump administration.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Energy must roll out Obama-era efficiency standards that are expected to cut carbon emissions and save consumers billions of dollars for decades to come, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreAs close associates of President Donald Trump are questioned as part of congressional investigations into Russia’s election interference, House Republicans announced two probes looking back at the Obama administration, including the renewed examination of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Read moreJust days before Labor Day, a federal judge in Texas struck down a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would have made millions more employees eligible to receive overtime pay.
Read morePromising more military-style equipment for local police departments, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end Monday of limits instituted in the Obama era.
Read moreAfter blocking the Trump administration from pausing new methane-emissions regulations covering oil and natural gas wells, the D.C. Circuit refused Thursday to reconsider that July ruling.
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Offering insight into the soured diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, a spokeswoman for the State Department cited retaliation as the reason that two Cuban diplomats were expelled this past May from their Washington, D.C., embassy.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency said it is moving forward with Obama-era smog regulations, after 15 states petitioned to challenge the Trump administration’s delay of rules reducing emissions of air pollutants.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Monday struck down the EPA’s decision to pause an Obama-era rule regulating methane emissions from oil and natural gas wells.
Read moreSeven years after warning that the CIA’s brutal interrogations likely flouted bans on medical experimentation, human-rights physicians found evidence confirming their suspicion. The provocative title of their new report is “Nuremberg Betrayed.”
Read moreA Shire shareholder sued AbbVie for backing out of its proposed acquisition of the Irish drugmaker after the Obama administration strengthened the penalties for corporate inversions that avoid U.S. taxes.
Read moreCanceling normalized U.S.-Cuban relations after than a half-century of hostility — “effective immediately,” he said — President Donald Trump rolled back the clock Friday at a theater named after the leader of a disastrous plot to overthrow Fidel Castro.
Read moreOnline news outlet Buzzfeed sued several intelligence agencies including the CIA and FBI on Thursday, claiming they are withholding records linked to President Donald Trump’s claims that the Barack Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Less than a week after President Donald Trump took steps to put U.S. Arctic and Atlantic waters back in play for offshore drilling, 10 environmental and Alaska Native groups sued Wednesday to maintain the ban on oil and gas exploration.
Read moreConservationists and public health groups brought a federal complaint Wednesday in an effort to halt Trump administration rollbacks of regulations governing coal power plant waste.
Read moreRolling back Obama-era nutrition guidelines for school-lunch programs, the Trump administration moved to keep calorie-count displays largely optional until at least next year, and health initiatives by the former first lady are also on the chopping block.
Read moreWith two weeks left in Barack Obama’s presidency, lawyers for the government acknowledged in a court filing that climate change is caused by humans and that its effects could be catastrophic. On Friday, the lawyer who authored that document couldn’t tell a judge whether the Trump administration would now reverse its position and deny that climate change is real.
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FBI director James Comey confirmed Monday before members of Congress that an investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election is active and began in late July, more than three months before the election.
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