JOE MANCHIN

A Virginia man has been arrested on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing a Captain America backpack and stole items from senators’ desks on the Senate floor during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

West Virginia Sen_ Joe Manchin says if U_S_ voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, “he will destroy democracy in America.”.

President Joe Biden has a lot of unfinished business from his first term that he intends to continue if he's reelected next year.

Joe Manchin’s impending departure from the Senate marks the end of an era for powerful West Virginia Democrats who wielded considerable power as advocates for the state's coal interests.

Democratic operatives believe that Joe Manchin’s decision not to seek reelection virtually ensures the party will lose his Senate seat in deep-red West Virginia next year.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia says he won’t seek reelection in 2024, giving Republicans a prime opportunity to gain a seat in the heavily GOP state.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has benefited from waiting to reveal where he stood as the swing vote in a chamber closely divided between Democrats and Republicans.

The future of additional U.S. aid to Ukraine is in doubt now that Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as House speaker.

President Joe Biden's administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years but none in Alaska.

The Senate has voted to reverse an informal guidance issued by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last week that senators could wear what they want when voting or speaking in the chamber.

A national political movement that could offer an independent presidential ticket in 2024 as an alternative to major-party nominees has now won ballot access in 10 states.

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin says he has been thinking “seriously” about leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent.

The Arizona Democratic Party is looking to force the new political party No Labels to disclose its donors or lose its status as a party.

A Republican measure overturning President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan has passed the Senate and now awaits an expected veto.

Despite weeks of negotiations, the White House and House Republicans were unable to reach a comprehensive agreement to overhaul environmental regulations and streamline federal permitting as part of their budget deal.

Thirteen coal companies owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice are being sued over unpaid penalties for previous federal mining law violations.

Thanks to a boost from the government, leasing — not buying — is becoming the most affordable way to get your hands on an electric vehicle.

Perhaps the most unlikely feature of high-stakes budget negotiations going on in Washington is a debate over permitting.

The Senate has approved a measure that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S. Lawmakers also approved a separate plan late Wednesday to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a rare grouse that’s found in parts of the Midwest and Southwest, including one of the country’s most prolific oil and gas fields.

West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice says he’s running for Democrat Joe Manchin’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024.

The Biden administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects at the site of current or former coal mines.

Congress on Wednesday approved a resolution to overturn the Biden administration's protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways.

As global warming threatens to put much of the ski industry out of business over the next several decades, resorts are beginning to embrace a role as climate activists.

In a sign of a deepening rift among Democrats on energy issues, conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he will not move forward on President Joe Biden’s nominee to oversee oil and gas leasing at the Interior Department.

The House has voted 227-198 to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Daniel Werfel to serve as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service by a vote of 54-to-42.

Thousands of pages of documents in a recent lawsuit show that Fox News' top executives sometimes were actively involved in politics rather than simply reporting or offering opinions on it.

The U.S. House voted unanimously Thursday to condemn the Beijing government for its balloon surveillance program.

The Treasury Department said Friday it is making more electric vehicles — including SUVs made by Tesla, Ford and General Motors — eligible for tax credits of up to $7,500 under new vehicle classification definitions.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is trying to delay new tax credits for electric vehicles, a key feature of President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law.

Senior Democrats are expressing criticism of how President Joe Biden handled classified material after leaving office as vice president.

Two bills that would make it easier for hydrogen hubs and underground carbon sequestration projects to come to historically coal-dependent West Virginia are headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice.

States are racing against a deadline to challenge the map federal officials will use to divvy up the nation’s largest-ever investment in high-speed internet.

A push by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects has failed in the current Congress, but could come back as soon as next month.

A bill to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military and provide nearly $858 billion for national defense has passed the Senate and now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.

Federal regulators have ordered a review of security standards at the nation’s far-flung electricity transmission network.

Three newspaper reporters in West Virginia say they have been fired after publicly criticizing their company's video interview with a convicted former coal executive.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is becoming an Independent and leaving the Democratic Party.

Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Senate Democrats a 51-49 majority.

President Joe Biden is trying to allay concerns raised by French President Emmanuel Macron about a clean energy law that benefits electric vehicles and other products made in North America.

When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate’s new members, he’ll bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylvania.

Democrats celebrating a successful effort to keep control of the U.S. Senate this year will soon confront a 2024 campaign that could prove more challenging.

Democrats have secured their majority in the Senate for the next two years.

With his party’s control over Congress teetering on the brink, President Joe Biden has traveled the country this fall trying to turn the midterm elections into a choice between two visions for America.

President Joe Biden has slammed Republicans up and down ballots across the nation as election deniers who reveled in political violence.

President Joe Biden is being criticized by a powerful fellow Democrat, West Virginia Sen_ Joe Manchin, for being "cavalier” and “divorced from reality.”.

Joe Biden wasn't the first choice of progressives for the White House in 2020.

West Virginia Republican U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney is facing Democrat Barry Wendell in the race for a seat representing the state's 2nd Congressional District.

President Joe Biden is promising that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion protections into law.

Congress is moving quickly to avoid a government shutdown.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he will “proudly support” legislation to overhaul rules for certifying presidential elections, bolstering a bipartisan effort to revise a 19th century law and avoid another Jan. 6 insurrection.

Sen. Joe Manchin has abandoned his push to speed up the permitting process for energy projects.

Negotiators have agreed to include more than $12 billion in Ukraine-related aid in a stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government into mid-December.

Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday railed against what he called “revenge politics″ being used against him, as liberals in the House and Senate team up with Republicans to oppose his plan to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects.

Movie director Adam McKay is donating $4 million to fund activists engaged in the climate fight.

House Democrats are voting this week on changes to a 19th century law for certifying presidential elections.

A Maryland company says it will build a natural gas power plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon in West Virginia.

The Biden administration has accepted nearly $190 million in bids from an offshore oil and gas lease sale that was held nearly a year ago but rejected by a federal judge.

Sen. Joe Manchin made a deal with Democratic leaders as part of his vote pushing the party's highest legislative priority across the finish line last month.

President Joe Biden’s request for $47 billion in emergency funding is getting a thumbs down from Republicans in Congress.

President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are announcing $1 billion in federal grants for manufacturing, clean energy, farming, biotech and more.

After decades of failed attempts, Democrats this month passed legislation that aims to rein in the soaring costs of drugs for some in the United States.

Sen. Joe Manchin says he pays no heed to criticism when making decisions what’s best for West Virginia.

President Joe Biden insists he intends to seek reelection in 2024.

Renewable energy incentives in the climate bill signed by President Joe Biden are expected to drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions.

The U.S. government is moving forward with its plan to award new tax credits to electric vehicle purchasers.

President Joe Biden has signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill.

The sprawling economic package passed by the U.S. Senate this week has a certain West Virginia flavor.

Democrats have pushed their landmark climate and health care bill through Congress, handing an election-year victory to President Joe Biden.

Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change fighting bill.

Republican politicians and candidates are distorting how a major economic bill working its way through Congress would overhaul the IRS and affect taxes for the middle class.

A tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle under the Inflation Reduction Act now moving toward final approval in Congress.

Many pieces of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda have been jettisoned over the last year, but his proposals on climate change remain largely intact.

President Joe Biden is set to sign into law a bill that aims to help military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer effectively became the leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what President Joe Biden first envisioned with his effort to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

The Senate has approved Democrats' big election-year economic package.

China has cut off climate talks with the U.S. — imperiling future global climate negotiations, but not necessarily blunting the impacts of significant climate actions at home in both countries.

The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what President Joe Biden first envisioned with his effort to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems.

Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal reviving President Joe Biden’s big economic, health care and climate bill.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats have made changes in their giant economic bill that include paring part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations.

One of Washington’s favorite punching bags, the Internal Revenue Service, may finally get the resources it’s been asking Congress for if Democrats get their economic package focused on energy and health care over the finish line.

Senate Democrats say they have reached an accord on changes to their marquee economic legislation, clearing the major hurdle to pushing one of President Joe Biden’s leading election-year priorities through the chamber in coming days.

In a surprise victory for Republicans, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a Biden administration rule requiring rigorous environmental review of major infrastructure projects such as highways, pipelines and oil wells — a victory enabled in part by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.”.

Billions of dollars in climate and environment investments from the Inflation Reduction Act could flow to communities in the United States that have been plagued by pollution and climate threats for decades.

Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking in the upcoming battle over an economic package the Democrats want to push through the Senate.

Senators Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have requested feedback from college sports leaders to be used to craft a bill to regulate how college athletes can be compensated for their names, images and likenesses.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin are making the case for overhauling the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act.

The deal reached last week by Senate Democrats would provide $20 billion for climate-friendly agricultural practices.

Two powerful House Democrats from New York are declining to say whether President Joe Biden should run for the White House again in 2024.

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion access in the wake of the June Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's views remained a mystery as party leaders eye votes later this week on their emerging economic legislation.

President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is declining to endorse Joe Biden if the president seeks a second term in 2024 and is refusing to say whether he wants Democrats to retain control of Congress after the November elections.

In a story published July 30, 2022, The Associated Press reported that the Congressional Budget Office estimated that an insulin bill would increase the price of the drug.

The surprise deal by Senate Democrats on a pared-down bill to support families, boost infrastructure and fight climate change is likely to jump-start sales of electric vehicles.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin had been wrestling for more than a year over President Joe Biden’s big rebuilding America package.

An unexpected deal reached by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to address global warming and could help President Joe Biden come close to meeting his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.