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The United States crossed a significant at the end of 2023. For the first time, wind-power turbines sent electricity to the power grid from commercial-scale offshore wind farms. A turbine in the South Fork Wind Farm 35 miles from Montauk Point, N.Y., sent power to the state’s grid. A few weeks later, a turbine in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms came through unlicensed dealers who aren't required to perform background checks over a five-year period, according to new data released last week by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. That represents 54 percent of the illegally trafficked firearms in the country between 2017 and [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lost in the hubbub surrounding California's new $20-per-hour minimum wage for food workers is how that raise could impact public schools, forcing districts to compete with the likes of McDonald's and Wendy's for cafeteria workers amid a state budget crunch. The minimum wage law that took effect April 1 guarantees at [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon organizers will soon have to pay a bridge toll, just like every other commuter, if New York transit officials have their way. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is demanding the New York Road Runners, organizers of the venerable race generally held the first Sunday of each November, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Belgian family of four was on their fourth trip to the United States. They had been dreading the long line at passport control when they entered the country but had heard about a new app they could use to ease their way and decided to give it a shot. Within minutes, [...]
Southern California's Imperial Irrigation District, which supplies water to farmers who grow most of the nation's winter vegetables, planned to start a conservation program this month to scale back what it draws from the critical Colorado River, but a tiny, tough fish got in the way. Now, those plans won't start until at least June [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency last week set new emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that federal officials said will help clean up some of the nation's largest sources of greenhouse gases. The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032, will avoid up [...]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Rebuilding Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge could take anywhere from 18 months to several years, experts say, while the cost could be at least $400 million — or more than twice that. It all depends on factors that are still mostly unknown. They range from the design of the new [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" playing in teacher Nancy Morris' classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at Cleveland's Riverside School were on their feet, dancing during a session [...]
NEW YORK — New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district after transit officials approved a $15 fee for most motorists headed to the busiest part of Manhattan. Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board last week voted to greenlight the congestion [...]