WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors in several Republican-led states are pressing the Trump administration to cut strings attached to their federal education aid, a goal conservatives have long sought now appears within reach as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the Education Department. Iowa put itself forward as a test case this month, asking the Education [...]
Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to a pair of private equity firms for $1 billion after a decade of trying to make its acquisition of the bargain chain fit. Dollar Tree Inc. acquired Family Dollar for more than $8 billion in 2015 after a bidding war with rival Dollar General. Dollar Tree had been [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A brand that was connected to music piracy before re-emerging as a subscription music service has been sold to Infinite Reality for $207 million. The tech startup announced it had bought Napster in hopes of transforming the streaming service into a social music platform on which artists can connect with fans [...]
A federal judge in Texas has set a June trial date for the federal government’s years-old conspiracy case against Boeing for misleading regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor did not explain in the scheduling order he issued why he decided to [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown launched a pro-worker organization this week to promote the “Dignity of Work,” a creed that he has advanced for years as an officeholder and candidate. The non-partisan Dignity of Work Institute will be based in Columbus, where he and wife Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, moved [...]
Lawmakers have proposed a bipartisan bill that would put statutory municipalities on more equal footing with charter villages and cities when it comes to filling police department vacancies. Reps. Kevin Miller, R-Newark, and Joe Miller, D-Amherst, debuted House Bill 44 — legislation that would allow statutory cities to skip the civil service examination process in [...]
A once-every-four-years report card on the condition of the nation’s infrastructure gave it a “C” grade, up slightly from previous reports. The report from the American Society of Civil Engineers, which examined everything from roads and dams to drinking water and railroads, warns that federal funding must be sustained or increased to avoid further deterioration [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration earlier this week invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law. The declaration came as U.S. District Judge James Boasberg weighs whether the government defied his order [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights, ending a decadelong legal battle that saw many of the plaintiffs grow from children and teenagers into adults. The case [...]