Infrastructure

Meta's Stanton Springs Data Center.

Mills vetoes Maine data center ban

By Brady Knox April 24, 2026 5:34 pm

A metro train travels westbound along interstate 66.

Metro board votes to automate Red Line fully with driverless trains

Molly Parks Apr 24, 2026

Smoke rises over Washington, D.C., after a bus caught fire.

Smoke plume rises over downtown DC after bus catches fire

Brady Knox Apr 23, 2026

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks during a press briefing on flight safety, at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Air traffic control overhaul gains ground as safety concerns persist

Samantha-Jo Roth Apr 21, 2026

A traveler walks though the terminal at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Duffy orders Chicago O’Hare airport to cut summer flights

David Zimmermann Apr 17, 2026

trucking safety trucking industry trucks supply chain

New Gord Magill book goes inside ‘The War on Truckers’

By Jack Baruth April 17, 2026 5:03 am

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks during a news conference at LaGuardia Airport, Monday, March 23, 2026, after an Air Canada jet collided the night before with a Port Authority firetruck shortly after landing in New York.

Sean Duffy yanks $73 million in federal funding to New York over CDL dispute

By Emily Hallas April 16, 2026 5:16 pm

Cranes being used to construct the new White House ballroom are seen around the White House, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Judge clarifies below-ground construction of White House ballroom project can proceed

By Jack Birle April 16, 2026 1:34 pm

Barricades block a drive outside a warehouse as federal officials tour the facility to consider repurposing it as an ICE detention facility Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Belton, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Federal court halts planned ICE detention center in Maryland

By Christine Valora April 15, 2026 8:26 pm

A United States Postal Service (USPS) worker outside a USPS distribution center in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. FedEx, UPS, Amazon.com and the U.S. Postal Service are busy hiring temporary and part-time workers ahead of the peak season, which will start to ramp up in November. Competition will be fierce for labor in and out of the parcel industry. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Congress seeks solution for averting USPS fiscal collapse

By Kevin R. Kosar April 10, 2026 6:28 am

An oil tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia

US oil prices fall over 18% after Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire with Iran

By Molly Parks April 8, 2026 7:19 am

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, center left, listens to a briefing on hurricane recovery efforts, Tuesday, April 7, 2026 in Lake Lure, N.C. This is his first official trip since replacing Kristi Noem.

Mullin says FEMA getting back pay by Monday while surveying North Carolina’s Helene damage

By Emily Hallas April 7, 2026 5:52 pm

Charlie-Kirk-Kentucky-Capitol-collage

Kentucky celebrates conservative activist Charlie Kirk with highway

By Britta Miller April 3, 2026 4:42 pm

Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York.

DC to fight rat epidemic with ‘blitz’ pilot program

By David Zimmermann April 1, 2026 5:10 pm

Trump with a concept board for his ballroom.

Judge blocks Trump White House construction of $400 million ballroom

By Kaelan Deese March 31, 2026 3:36 pm

A TSA agent wears a U.S. Department of Homeland Security patch on their uniform at Love Field Airport, in Dallas, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026

Most TSA employees receive first retroactive paycheck since shutdown

By Brady Knox March 30, 2026 4:21 pm

Airline passengers make their way through the security lines, next to a closed screening area, in Terminal C at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Sunday, March 29, 2026, in Houston. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

TSA officers to be paid as early as Monday, Homan says

By Claire Carter March 29, 2026 12:12 pm