Kayla Goggin

The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge while an analysis of the environmental impact of drilling in the area is conducted.

A national landlord group brought its case challenging a federal directive halting residential evictions to the 11th Circuit on Friday, arguing that the order has forced landlords to give unlimited free housing to delinquent tenants without proper legal recourse.

The passage of Senate Bill 202 in Georgia, which places new restrictions on voting, has led activists to demand that corporations use their political clout to support voting rights states attempting to push through similar laws.

Fulton County’s top prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his electoral defeat in Georgia and has asked state officials to preserve documents related to Trump’s demand to "find" more votes.

Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff declared victory Wednesday over Republican Senator David Perdue in Georgia’s runoff race, a win that if confirmed would give President-elect Joe Biden’s party control over the chamber.

A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to recommend Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use nationwide to fight the pandemic that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans since March.  

New polling data released Friday shows Democrats leading in three U.S. Senate races by five percentage points or more, putting the Republican Party at risk of losing its majority in that chamber. 

Four members of China’s military have been charged with hacking into the computer systems of credit reporting agency Equifax in 2017 and stealing the personal information of nearly half of all Americans.