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WASHINGTON (AP) — Last month, as he marked his 74th birthday, Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning Roe v. Wade ‘s nationwide protection for abortion. If he was ready to take a victory lap, Thomas didn’t let on. Instead, he called on his colleagues to do more, to revisit the [...]
This Fourth of July is the first under a new state law allowing individuals to legally discharge consumer-grade fireworks on certain holidays, including Independence Day. The law takes effect today. The new law, so far, has been good for business for the state’s fireworks retailers. “I’ve had a few people mention that they never set [...]
JOHNSTOWN (AP) — When President Joe Biden applauded a decision by Intel Corp. to build a $20 billion semiconductor operation on "1,000 empty acres of land" in Ohio, it didn't sit well with Tressie Corsi. The 85-year-old woman has lived on seven acres of that land since she and her late husband, Paul, built a [...]
ESSEX, Vt. (AP) — Before the pandemic, there was no room in the budget for Kate Murphy’s children to buy lunch at school. She and her husband would buy in bulk and make bag lunches at home, so the free school meals that were made available to students nationwide amid the crisis have brought welcome [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Supreme Court's decision overturning a gun-permitting law in New York has states with robust firearms restrictions scrambling to respond on two fronts — to figure out what concealed carry measures they might be allowed to impose while also preparing to defend a wide range of other gun control policies. The language [...]
DETROIT — High gas prices have Wallace Reid looking for a new career. Reid, who drives for Uber and Lyft in New York, fills up his Lexus at least three times a week. He pays around $95 each time, about double what he was paying last year. To make up for that, he’s driving more [...]
The U.S. nuclear industry is generating less electricity as reactors retire, but now plant operators are hoping to nearly double their output over the next three decades, according to the industry's trade association. The massive scaling-up envisioned by the utilities hangs on the functionality of a new type of nuclear reactor that's far smaller than [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As the Supreme Court appears on track to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, progressive prosecutors around the country are declaring they won’t enforce some of the most restrictive and punitive anti-abortion laws that GOP-led states have waited years to implement. The move is sure to rankle Republican lawmakers and governors, with [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A bird flu outbreak in that led to the deaths of more than 40 million chickens and turkeys and contributed to a spike in egg and meat prices appears to be waning, but state and industry state and industry officials caution that the virus hasn’t disappeared and worry another surge could [...]
The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications on census and survey forms for the first time in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering. The revisions could open the door to changes long desired by advocates. Among them [...]