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A wave of congressional stock trading scandals, ranging from suspiciously timed trades at the start of the pandemic to members of Congress failing to comply with transaction disclosure requirements, have prompted calls for reform this year. Under pressure from the public, Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives have finally introduced a long-awaited bill to…

On the first day of its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a long-running dispute over federal water regulation that climate activists argue could leave millions of acres of wetlands unprotected and potentially intensify pollution of America’s water system. Idaho couple Chantell and Michael Sackett have been waging a 15-year legal battle with…

It shouldn’t be a hard question for Democrats. Should President Joe Biden run for re-election? At this point in a President’s first term, the answer from loyal members of his party is usually an unequivocal yes. But some Democrats continue to dodge the question, reluctant to give a full-throated endorsement for Biden in 2024. “I’m…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Friday sanctioned more than 1,000 people and firms connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including its Central Bank governor and families of Security Council members, after President Vladimir Putin signed treaties absorbing occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia, in defiance of international law. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Treasury Department named hundreds…

Weeks after the August storm that left a third of Pakistan underwater, Sherry Rehman, the country’s climate minister, says she is still struggling to define “the mind-bending event.” More than 1,200 people died and more than 1 million homes were destroyed. Officially, 33 million people were affected, though Rehman says that’s a “conservative” estimate. The…

President Joe Biden pledged his “commitment” Thursday to the millions of Americans affected by Hurricane Ian, saying the storm and subsequent flooding has likely caused “substantial loss of life” and will require a massive recovery effort in Florida and beyond. “This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history,” Biden said at Federal Emergency Management…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The Democratic Party’s relationship with the Latino community is complicated. For years, it was taken as gospel that they were the party’s future, a quickly growing bloc that was naturally aligned to…

In the most high-profile Jan. 6 case yet, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia and four other members are facing charges of seditious conspiracy in a significant test for the Justice Department, which is seeking to successfully prosecute the rare charges for the first time in 30 years. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of…

A federal judge struck a blow to the Biden administration’s antitrust agenda last week, ruling against the Department of Justice’s effort to block a merger between two of the nation’s largest sugar producers. Yet for members of the administration who had spent months following the case, the outcome of the ruling wasn’t the only thing…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Ron DeSantis is about to face the most consequential 72 hours of his political career. With Hurricane Ian making landfall this afternoon and 2.5 million Florida residents under evacuation orders, the Florida…