The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed slashing fuel economy standards that former President Joe Biden had finalized last year, in its latest push to make it easier for automakers to sell gasoline-powered cars.
A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Congress is seeking action to ban lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks, a practice that has long raised ethics questions and is stoking infighting among lawmakers over how deeply to regulate their personal finances.
Democrats were more bullish on their chances of recapturing control of the U.S. House of Representatives in next year's midterms, they said on Wednesday, after gaining ground in solidly Republican Tennessee in this week's off-cycle election.