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President Bush this week is expected to sign a $70 billion tax-cut package into law. It will lower rates for investors and save billions of dollars for families with above-average incomes. Now Republicans in Congress are turning their attention toward the estate tax. They want it repealed permanently.

The revelation this week of the identity of Deep Throat, Bob Woodward's celebrated anonymous source on the Watergate scandal, has stirred up the memories of many journalists. These competing reporters, beaten badly at the outset of Watergate, say that the accolades raining down on the Washington Post obscure scoops of their own.

The hot job market has opened up opportunities for formerly incarcerated people who may have had a harder time finding work in the past. Some employers are even actively recruiting at jails.

Tod Machover's goal is to put music into the hands of people who want to play it — or at least imagine it. He and his team at MIT helped to create Guitar Hero, and one of his latest projects helps people with disabilities write and perform music.

A truckers' convoy inspired by what happened in Canada in February is rolling across America toward Washington, D.C. They're protesting vaccines even as states are lessening pandemic restrictions.

If you’re watching the Winter Olympics right now, well, you’re in the minority. But that aside, you’re well aware of the drab visual of no-fans and the looming specter of international conflict. Unlike a year ago during the Summer Games, the viewing public has moved past the concept of empty arenas, especially after a football season that looked just like old times. Unless you’re a particular fan of winter biathlon or pairs luge, which to be fair is kind of cool, you’re probably having a hard time paying attention, especially from like 20 time zones away. It almost feels like the most dramatic part of the Games is whether Putin will in fact invade the Ukraine before closing ceremonies, which seems to be a recurrent Olympic theme from Russia, or Russian Olympic Committee, as it’s now called.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads out on an Asia swing this week to reinforce the administration's continued focus on competition with China despite the crisis in Ukraine.

More than half of China's biggest cities are still under some form of lockdown measures. They're costing people economically and emotionally.

Washington State has banned the sale of assault weapons. Gun safety groups hail the restrictions, but gun rights advocates call it "virtue signaling" doomed to fail at the Supreme Court.

Laser technology is being used to more accurately measure mountain snowpack — crucial information for farmers and water managers in drought-stricken areas like the Colorado River Basin.