Touting record-breaking enrollment for 2023, the Biden administration announced that around 3.1 million Americans are getting insurance for the first time under the federal Affordable Care Act - and there is still time to sign up before the Jan. 15 deadline. Read more»

Accusing the government of failing to comply with the Endangered Species Act, a conservation group asked a federal judge on Tuesday to demand a nationwide recovery plan for the gray wolf. Read more»

Updated boosters are expected to come out as soon as next week after the FDA authorized Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to modify their respective shots to better protect Americans against the Omicron strain of COVID-19. Read more»

President Joe Biden made a stop in election battleground country Tuesday to rally votes for the Democratic side of the ticket in the upcoming midterms, questioning the lack of bipartisan support for his crime-prevention plan. Read more»

Based on significant evidence that PFOA and PFOS may present a substantial danger to human health or the environment, the two chemical compounds used for decades earned the hazardous substances designation under federal Superfund law. Read more»

Just one day after the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home, former President Donald Trump suffered another loss Tuesday when a federal appeals court greenlit a House committee's request to seize his tax returns from the IRS. Read more»

Citing plummeting population numbers for one of America’s favorite pollinators, the leading international scientific body on extinction classified the monarch butterfly as endangered, and experts urged the federal government to offer protection under the Endangered Species Act. Read more»

Balking at the Senate’s failure to rally behind climate provisions of his Build Back Better plan, President Biden announced that he will begin issuing executive orders and proclamations in the coming days to combat the climate change emergency. Read more»

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a new non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use Wednesday, greenlighting a shot made by Novavax that the government secured 3.2 million doses of earlier this week. Read more»

President Joe Biden called on Congress Wednesday to pause the federal gas tax for the next 90 days during the summer travel season, promising a seal of approval on legislation that’s been proposed in both chambers of the body. Read more»

Amping up his plan to rebuild the American economy around the middle class, President Joe Biden noted that the unemployment rate is currently at 3.6% and that he has plans to fix two of the country’s biggest looming issues: rising gas and food prices. Read more»

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday against a Navajo Nation member who said double jeopardy occurred when he was given tribal and federal sentences for the same instance of sexual assault. Read more»

Looking to give states and Native American territories and tribes more power to block energy projects capable of polluting waterways on their land, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed reversing a Trump-era rule. Read more»

One person died from a drug overdose every five minutes in the United States in 2021, a record level that is up 15% from overdose deaths counted in 2020 and 30% higher than pre-pandemic estimates in 2019. Read more»

The CDC said Wednesday it will extend its face mask requirement on public transit for an additional 15 days - as a coalition of 21 states, including Arizona, filed a suit challenging the continued implementation of the public transportation mask mandate. Read more»