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PLUS:House GOP ask Speaker to hold off on repealing clean energy credits, DOE's handling of nuclear waste raises concerns, and latest homeless report brings dire news. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday [...]

PLUS:Alcohol-induced deaths climb 70 percent, Casey presses administration for changes in hydrogen-power tax credit, and House GOP margin to grow by one. Both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate say [...]

PLUS:FCC's Carr criticizes Apple over text-messaging; Texas judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit; and Russian energy firm is in the crosshairs of House panel. In the House GOP's effort to impeach Homeland [...]

Approval of a new plant can take tens of thousands of staff hours. And existing rules aren't currently written with the newer, smaller, nimbler reactors in mind. Members of Congress [...]

Nominations, artificial intelligence, and gas stoves are among the issues that will occupy lawmakers' focus this week. With President Biden signing a bipartisan agreement'the Fiscal Responsibility Act'to raise the debt [...]

Key senators have drafted their own bills to propel energy projects but pledge to work together on a reasonable compromise. Senate Democrats and Republicans are homing in on energy-related permitting [...]

As efficiency rises and safety concerns recede, lawmakers begin to look at reactors as a key piece of the clean-energy pie. Lawmakers are trying to rev up nuclear power again. [...]

Home Oliver Dowden, the Deputy Prime Minister, told parliament that China was behind a cyber attack on the Electoral Commission in August 2021, getting access to 40 million voters' details. [...]

The dramatic loss of support for Olaf Scholz and his three-party coalition in two important state elections in Germany on 8 October was shocking in its scale. In Bavaria, the [...]

The war in Ukraine and a looming independence referendum colored the Scottish leader's trip to Washington. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made a tour of Washington this week, aiming to [...]

When Hungary declared a state of emergency in March to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, commentators in the West immediately spread the news that the European Union's first dictatorship had [...]

In a March 7 interview with Arms Control Today; U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, describes his efforts [...]

Key Senate appropriators are calling for an up-or-down vote on funding for a permanent nuclear waste storage site at Yucca Mountain, but Democratic opposition looms large. Key senators are fed [...]

Infrastructure and climate change also on the agenda, but all eyes are on the attorney general. Members of Congress are back this week after the two-week state work period. It's [...]

Byline: Andrew SullivanWatching Congresswoman Ilhan Omar this past week has been, shall we say, illuminating. In some ways, I find myself inspired. Finally in 2019, we have one of two [...]

Plus:Is nuclear power the only way forward? Nate Silver, writing for https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/amy-klobuchar-2020-democratic-nomination-kickoff Sen. Amy Klobuchar's path to the Democratic nomination relies on stressing her electability and identifiability in the states [...]

U.S. President Donald Trump has set the stage for actions, starting as early as next month, that could unravel the Iran nuclear deal, a development that would jolt U.S. relations [...]

In a significant departure from longstanding U.S. policy, lawmakers voted in December to expand the declared role of U.S. national ballistic missile defenses. The measure states that it shall be [...]

The U.S. State Department may not have notified Congress regularly about its efforts to negotiate a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, raising questions about whether the Trump administration [...]

* Cory Booker is not right about much, but he was right to suggest that Democrats have an 'obligation to listen to scientists' on nuclear power, lest they resemble the [...]

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation in April to increase transparency into U.S. efforts to export civilian nuclear technology. The action followed reports that the Trump administration quietly [...]

Byline: Mark Bergfeld, Leandros Fischer Summary: Die Linke's electoral result shows what the party must do to really contend for power. The news was predictable, but still bitter. After September [...]

Byline: Daniel Tanuro Summary: Leading Republicans are abandoning climate-change denialism in order to design 'green' policy favorable to capital. The COP21 negotiators at the Paris 2015 convention enjoyed a rare [...]

The Trump administration is poised to begin negotiating a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia amid concerns of some lawmakers about whether the administration will seek sufficiently strong nonproliferation safeguards. [...]

Byline: Christopher Isett Summary: Taiwan's recent election was a referendum on its past - and a battle for its future. On January 16, Taiwan held its sixth presidential and eighth [...]