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CONCORD, N.H. — While judges, lawyers and support staff at the federal courthouse in Concord, N.H., keep the American justice system buzzing, thousands of humble honeybees on the building's roof are playing their part in a more important task — feeding the world. The Warren B. Rudman courthouse is one of several federal facilities around [...]
DETROIT (AP) — The federal agency charged with keeping the roads safe is slow to investigate automobile safety defects, limiting its ability to handle rapidly changing or severe risks, an audit made public last week reported. Problems at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation limit the agency’s ability to respond to [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is seeking clarity after the former director of its American missionary fundraising office oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million of its endowment and donations into a new nonprofit and private equity fund that he created and currently manages, The Associated Press has learned. The new management of [...]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Water conflicts are nothing new to the arid West, where myriad users long have vied for their share of the precious resource from California's Central Valley to the Colorado and Missouri rivers. Few conflicts, however, have waded into the legal question playing out in rural Nevada: To what extent can local [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The training program for Navy SEALs is plagued by widespread failures in medical care, poor oversight and the use of performance-enhancing drugs that have increased the risk of injury and death to those seeking to become elite commandos, according to an investigation triggered by the death of a sailor last year. Medical [...]
The United States grew older, faster, last decade. The share of residents 65 or older grew by more than a third from 2010 to 2020 and at the fastest rate of any decade in 130 years, while the share of children declined, according to new figures from the most recent census. The declining percentage of [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same busy road in Atlanta where her daughter died six months earlier. Glover, a flight attendant with a passion for clothes, was coming from an entertainment venue during the early morning of Sept. 19, 2022. [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The flight from urban areas that took place during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic either reversed or slowed in its second year, as last year metropolitan areas in Texas and Florida boomed and declines in New York and Los Angeles were halved, according to new estimates from the U.S. [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a nearly $11 billion investment this week to help bring affordable clean energy to rural communities throughout the country. Rural electric cooperatives, renewable energy companies and electric utilities will be able to apply for funding through two programs, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a media [...]
Using a general contractor who offers home improvement financing seems convenient, especially if they're standing in your kitchen ready to start as soon as you pay them. Contractors who offer loans usually work with third parties that specialize in home improvement financing. While there are benefits to the arrangement, even a highly recommended contractor may [...]