Politics and Government

The president arrived on Sunday in Rehoboth Beach, Del., where the first family has a home.

The Senate has approved Democrats' big election-year economic package. The legislation is less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic goals. But it embodies deep-rooted party dreams of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing big corporations. The House seems on track to provide final congressional approval when it returns briefly from summer recess on Friday.

A trend of GOP candidates ignoring or actively avoiding legacy media — particularly national outlets — is building this year. That can hamper voters' ability to make informed choices.

U.S. defense officials say that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declined to provide Guard personnel and the use of the D.C. Armory to assist with the reception of migrants into the city. Mayor Muriel Bowser says the city may send an amended request.

Eli Lilly and Co. and the administration of President Joe Biden have condemned Indiana's new ban on abortions. The law takes effect Sept. 15.

Biden came down with the virus a second time three days after he had emerged from isolation from his initial bout with COVID-19.

Democrats were told to remove language imposing hefty penalties on drugmakers that boost their prices beyond inflation in the private insurance market. Democrats plan to begin Senate votes Saturday on their package addressing climate change, energy, health care, taxes and deficit reduction.

Indiana was among the first Republican-run state legislatures to debate tighter abortion laws after the Supreme Court ruling that removed constitutional protections for the procedure.

The owner of the sole abortion clinic in North Dakota has been busy getting a new location ready in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Climate scientist and author Michael Mann tells Climate Cast, that while it stops short of the 50 percent emissions drop we need, the climate deal now poised to pass the Senate will be “the most progress we will have made in addressing the climate crisis — ever — from the standpoint of Congressional action.”