Big Oil is calling on President-elect Donald Trump to keep the U.S. in the Paris climate agreement after withdrawing from the treaty during his first term. The Paris Agreement, established at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in 2015, is a legally binding treaty between nearly 195 parties who are committed to international cooperation on climate change. Trump officially withdrew from the treaty in 2020, but the U.S. was...

Top Republican senators are telling officials in the Department of Justice to ensure that all records concerning the investigation into President-elect Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith are preserved ahead of the new administration.  “[C]onsidering the Justice Department’s past destruction of federal records relevant to congressional oversight and political bias infecting its decision-making process, we request that you preserve all records related to the Justice Department’s criminal...

The Ohio state Senate has passed a bill that would prevent schools from allowing students of the opposite sex into restrooms and locker rooms.  The legislation, which requires Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to sign in order to become law, aims to restrict transgender students from using facilities associated with their gender identities. Senate Bill 104, the Protect All Students Act, was voted 24-7 Wednesday on a party-line vote....