The Senate on Monday confirmed former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) to lead the Department of Labor, cementing another of ...

DeRemer, a former Republican representative from Oregon with a pro-union record, to lead the Labor Department. Chavez-DeRemer, 56, was confirmed by a vote of 67-32, with 17 Democrats joining ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Members of a Senate committee grilled Labor Secretary-designate Lori Chavez-DeRemer on Wednesday about her past support of pro-union legislation, her position on raising the ...

The Senate has voted to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as U.S. labor secretary The Latest Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a compromise that scales back paid sick leave and wages for ...

Lori Vallow Daybell is serving a life sentence for murdering her son J.J. Vallow and daughter Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiring to murder her husband Chad Daybell's first wife Tammy Jessica Sager ...

Jenn Chávez is a podcast host and producer with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Jenn has been making audio in Portland for over a decade, as both a community media and public media journalist.

With the future of the Orange County Power Authority in Irvine uncertain, activists drowned out Irvine Mayor Larry Agran’s address to urge the city not to withdraw from the green power agency ...

John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic ...

Follow all the latest developments as the 119th Congress takes shape. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “either needs to resign and send somebody over ...

Claudia Grisales is a congressional correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. Before joining NPR in June 2019, she was a Capitol Hill reporter covering military affairs for Stars and Stripes.

It’s good to see further reverses for the litigious climatologist. Politico hones an emerging Democratic narrative that Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment is part of a right-wing ideological campaign ...