Airtight and super-insulated, a passive house uses around 90% less energy. When the Canadian engineer Harold Orr and his colleagues began designing an ultra-efficient home in Saskatchewan in the late ...

House Republicans finally elected a House speaker — GOP Rep. Mike Johnson won the gavel Wednesday after the Republican conference ran through a long list of candidates — and several nominees — over ...

Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Nikole Killion is a CBS News congressional correspondent based ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Hardline conservative Republican Jim Jordan's quest to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ended on Friday as his fellow Republicans revoked their ...

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