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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled with questions earlier this week about the growing issue of homelessness as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking. It comes as record numbers of people are without a permanent place to live. The case started in the rural Oregon [...]
DALLAS (AP) — The United Auto Workers' election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country. The UAW won 73 percent of the vote at VW after losing elections in 2014 and 2019. It was [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration last week finalized a new rule for public-land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties. Officials pushed past opposition from private industry and Republican governors to adopt the proposal. GOP members of Congress [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the United States, launching a specialized gun intelligence center in Chicago and expanding task forces to curb carjackings. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said there is “absolutely much more to do” to make communities safer, even as many places [...]
The Biden administration is enlisting the help of officials in 15 states to enforce consumer-protection laws covering airline travelers, a power that by law is limited to the federal government. The U.S. Department of Transportation earlier this week said that the states, which include California, New York and Illinois, will help ensure that government enforcement [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After several difficult years, the Army and Air Force say they are on track to meet their recruiting goals this year, reversing previous shortfalls using a swath of new programs and policy changes. The Navy, however, while improving, expects once again to fall short. The mixed results reflect the ongoing challenges for [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Retail sales rose 0.7 percent last month — almost double what economists had forecast — after rising 0.9 percent in February, according to Commerce Department data released earlier this week. The February figure was revised upward. That comes after sales fell 1.1 percent in January, dragged down in part by inclement [...]
MIAMI (AP) — Having fled economic and political chaos in Venezuela, Luisana Silva now loads carpets for a South Carolina rug company. She earns enough to pay rent, buy groceries, gas up her car — and send money home to her parents. Silva, 25, her husband and their then-7-year-old daughter traveled the treacherous jungles of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the country will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect. The rule aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer inflation remained historically high last month, boosted by gas, rents, auto insurance and other items, the government said earlier this week in a report that could give pause to the Federal Reserve as it considers how many — or even whether — to cut interest rates this year. Prices outside the [...]