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The head count of every American resident in 2020 helped guide the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual federal spending, underscoring the importance of participating in the once-a-decade census, according to a new report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. There were 353 federal assistance programs that used the Census Bureau data in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans on the right and the left have a lot more in common than they might think — including their strong distrust of each other. A survey published earlier this week finds that when asked about core values, including fairness, compassion and personal responsibility, about nine in 10 Democrats and Republicans agreed [...]
DETROIT — Michigan State University's $3.9 billion endowment fund has become the majority investor in the Fisher Building, an iconic art deco style tower near downtown Detroit, the school announced this week. The fund is investing $21 million in the building, two adjacent surface parking lots and a parking structure for a 79 percent ownership [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — So many people knew something wasn't right at the 116-year-old Davenport apartment building. The structural engineer who documented the shaky wall. The head of a masonry company who wouldn't let his workers onto the site. The city inspector who threatened to close some units. A downtown official who called 911 [...]
Members of a committee in the Ohio House of Representatives are scheduled to hear testimony today in support of legislation that would allow police chiefs and other department officers to train closer to their home. House Bill 167 would update state law governing police training and the role of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy [...]
LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — Dressed in her Sunday best — pink ruffled sleeves and a rainbow tulle tutu — Crystal Martinez’s 4-year-old daughter proudly presents her with a multicolored bouquet of carefully crafted tissue paper flowers. With her 5-year-old son nestled on her lap, laughing in delight, Martinez holds out her arms and pulls the [...]
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 [...]