Politics and Government

Strikes and organizing efforts at high profile companies have generated new enthusiasm for organized labor. But numbers tell a different story. Union membership is tied for the lowest level on record.

President Joe Biden is heading to Pittsburgh to promote the benefits of his infrastructure package — and he's set to appear just two miles from the site of an early-morning bridge collapse that underscores his frequent calls to do more for the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges.

First lady Jill Biden met the cat when it interrupted a stump speech she was giving at a Pennsylvania farm during President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign.

The headline in the Benson newspaper said COVID-19 numbers were spiking in the farm towns of western Minnesota, but some saw it as a lie. It’s brought the lines of a divided America into sharp focus: one little town, 3,000 people, two starkly different realities.

The White House says President Joe Biden warned Ukraine's president Thursday that there is a “distinct possibility” Russia could take military action against Ukraine in February. The Kremlin likewise sounded a grim note, saying it saw “little ground for optimism” in resolving the crisis after the U.S. this week again rejected Russia’s main demands.

Russia's top diplomat said Friday that Moscow will not start a war but warned that it wouldn't allow the West to trample on its security interests amid fears it is planning to invade Ukraine.

The ruling revokes leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico, in the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. It says the Interior Department failed to consider the greenhouse gases it would produce.

Kenneth Polite, head of the Criminal Division since July, wants to take the most dangerous people off the streets and spend more on preventing violence.

The outbreak of tornadoes in December, the major drought in the summer — Minnesota has never seen a weather year like 2021. A St. Louis Park City Council member told host Cathy Wurzer more about why cities across Minnesota are declaring climate emergencies.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and President Joe Biden are speaking at the White House Thursday. His retirement gives Biden his first opportunity to nominate a justice to the court.